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Everything you've been told about innovation models is wrong.

It's not linear.
It's not a prescription.
It's a concoction.

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4 Innovation Ingredients

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Ingredient 1:

Go Purple

If your innovation idea doesn’t sound like a YAWP, it may be too refined and you may be playing it too safe from the very start. The ingredients of Go Purple are: passion, desire, and commitment.

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Ingredient 2:

Look Beyond the Problems.

You can't see the solution by focusing on the problem. Ask questions. Even and especially the simple and obvious ones.

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Ingredient 3:

Develop Your Bounce (and Recipe).

It’s not that Innovation demands enthusiasm and boundless energy; it’s more that enthusiasm and boundless energy demands Innovation. You need an authentic bounce.

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Ingredient 4:

Test and Iterate Your Concoction.

A compass will point you to true north, but plunging ahead heedless of obstacles may take you directly into the swamp.

Featured Insight:

How Tigger Inspired Best Buy... and the Geek Squad
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In the late 1990’s and into the early part of this century, computers didn’t work well. They had software issues, hardware issues, customer knowledge problems and long hold lines if you could even figure out where to call. Manufacturers and the software companies blamed one another for the mess … but at the end of the day, frustrated consumers turned to the retailers where they bought their computers for help.

This problem landed in my lap when I worked at Best Buy in 1998. Best Buy was developing a strategy around personal computers.The project was handed to me, in a manner of speaking, with a note attached that said, “fix this.” As I delved into it I began to sense an opportunity that few others saw, and I had the itch to pursue it.

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