21 Great Ways to Innovate

Check out The BQF Innovation Unit Blog for some good ideas:

21 Great Ways to Innovate by Paul Sloane

1. Copy someone else’s idea.
2. Ask customers.
3. Observe customers.
4. Use difficulties and complaints.
5. Combine.
6. Eliminate.
7. Ask your staff.
8. Plan.
9. Run brainstorms.
10. Examine patents.
11. Collaborate.
12. Minimize or Maximize.
13. Run a contest.
14. Ask – What if?
15. Watch the competition.
16. Outsource.
17. Use Open Innovation.
18. Adapt a Product to a New Use.
19. Try Triz.
20. Go Back in Time.
21. Use Social Networks.

Stephen