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Relentlessly Relevant 50 Ways to Innovate
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Conversation in a Kitchen
Part 1: Introduction
‘Your Meal, Sir. May I Run That Over for You?’
The Meteorite Strike That No One Noticed
A Step Back
Growing Up Slightly Poor and Massively Innovative
Where are We Now? All the Latest Thinking on Innovation
Part 2: Why should We?
Seven Reasons for Innovating
Part 3: Why Don’t We?
Rigid Rules, Sacred Cows and the Way Things have Always been Done
The Solutions
Part 4: How can We?
Warning: Don’t Innovate Here! Some Genuine, At Least Semi-Sacred Cows
50 Ways to Innovate
1. Frankenstein It by Stealing Parts
2. Reject the Role
3. Practise Capturing Ideas on the Fly
4. Train Yourself to Think: ‘That’s Awesome! Now Imagine if …’
5. Train Yourself to Think: ‘That’s Awful! Now Imagine if …’
6. Allow the Freedom to Fail and Reward the Right Behaviour, Not Success
7. Encourage Interdepartmental Pollination
8. Encourage Interdisciplinary Pollination
9. Alter the Environment
10. Conduct the Perspective Exercise
11. Unusualise the Problem
12. Forget What You Do. Instead, Ask: ‘What Resources Do We have in Huge and Unusual Quantities?’ And Do That Instead
13. Ask: ‘What are We Actually Trying to Achieve Here?’
14. Ask: ‘Who or What Do We Actually Compete Against?’
15. Work Outwards from Brand
16. Work Outwards from Cause
17. Add A Lifestyle
18. Introduce Gamification
19. Question the Experience of You
20. Practise Open Innovation
21. Run a Big-Ideas Hunt
22. Give It a Unique Signature
23. Earn Kudos Quickly
24. Observe Rule Bending, Then Enable It
25. Love the Hate and Bathe in Complaints
26. Accommodate the Rule Bending
27. Introduce It Locally
28. Forget What is: Make What You Want
29. Make It Incrementally Better
30. Make It ‘Way too’ Something
31. Utterly Reinvent the Category
32. Make It Much, Much Worse
33. Don’t Make It Better or Worse – Just Add Theatre
34. Let Your Dean be Your Difference
35. Change the Expected Tone
36. Destroy It and Start Afresh
37. Design a ‘Purple Cow’ on Purpose
38. Remove Resources and Apply Much Worse Constraints
39. Throw Bizarre and Unforeseen ‘What-Ifs’ at Your People
40. Turn Your Weakness into Merit
41. Start a New Company
42. Use Rapid Prototyping
43. Reduce Your Line and be the Best at One Thing
44. Canvass the Oddball
45. Imagine if The Customer Really were King
46. Make it Easy for That Exact Group to Use
47. Run Towards the Explosion
48. Embrace the Utterly Random
49. Big-picture Thinking: Develop the Millionaire’s Two-Minute Habit
50. Radical Innovation: Start Building the Ecosystem
Part 5: Now What?
Now Sell the Hell Out of That Sucker!
Constant Producers
Enter the Mist Boldly
References and Further Reading
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