QuickTalks: Josh Linkner: Facilitate Creativity Using Role Streaming

Role storming is brain storming in character. Assign people roles. This is fun and removes the fear. People playing Darth Vader or the Queen of England are then free to express their creativity. For example, Steve Jobs would never come up with a small idea. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Curt Coffman: Innovation: Less Control and More Collaboration

Innovation emerges more as lumps of coal than as cut diamonds. To transform coal into diamonds, put together people who do not ordinarily mix. This requires giving up control. 2 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Steve Lundin: Innovation Can Be a 10-Degree Turn of the Head

Post-It notes were created by a man who had two things on his mind: how to mark a place in his hymnal and paper that didn't quite stick in his lab. A slight change in perspective -- a 10-degree turn of the head -- can open up new possibilities. 3 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Steve Lundin: Innovation Favors a Prepared Mind

Prepare for innovation by being clear about your goal, and making relevant knowledge accessible. Steve tells the story of the golfer Gary Player. When a fan commented that a shot was lucky, Gary replied, "The more I practice that shot, the luckier I get." You can prepare for innovation by being clear about what you want to innovate around, and by building your knowledge files in a way that makes them accessible. 3 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Dwayne Spradlin: The Case for Open Innovation

Most organizations innovate internally. Open innovation adds academia, industry, and innovation marketplaces to innovate better, faster, and more cost effectively. Predicting solar flares was improved from 50 to 85 percent, and from 4 to 8 hours in lead times. 4 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Amin Rajan: Innovation

Innovation includes both products and processes. Successful companies innovate faster than their competitors. Innovation varies by industry. Manufacturers tend to use incubators, where engineers are locked away in remote locations. Service industries tend to use teams that network in space and time to create "high conviction" ideas. Heavy manufacturing industries use market-based pressures to set targets for their employees. Companies like Toyota encourages all employees to post new ideas in an ideas bank. 2 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Steve Lundin: Creating an Innovation-Friendly Environment

To create an environment that's friendly to innovation, decrease the clutter and noise. For Steve Lundin, colored pens and a blank piece of paper help him feel creative. IDEO, a company that innovates on demand, works in a creative, innovative-friendly environment. 3 minutes. LAUNCH

Consultant QuickTalks: Jeff Schwartz: The Intersection of Talent and Innovation

Although most companies say innovation is critical, only a few have formal programs and policies that look at the intersection of talent and innovation. Google and 3M set aside time and space for employees to pursue their own research or innovation agenda, but other companies make innovation an extracurricular activity. Other companiess recognize employees for participation in “innovation quests” and “innovation competitions.” 4 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Jeff DeGraff: Connecting the Dots of Innovation

The Competing Values Framework connects the departments, locations, functions and projects in an organization to create sustainable growth. The framework is organized in four quadrants representing four types of innovation: breakthrough innovations, short-term innovations, incremental innovations, and human development. Leaders decide what kind of innovation they want, then follow the corresponding advice. The framework is described at http://www.competingvalues.com/ 6 minutes. LAUNCH

Consultant QuickTalks: Mark Johnson: The Ingredients for Innovation

Mark Johnson details what he considers the ingredients for innovation. Ingredients include sponsorship, people dedicated to new growth initiatives, service as well as product innovations, a common language for talking about innovation, a manageable portfolio of opportunities to sustain the core and create the new, the business rhythms associated with each, and rewards to sustain innovators over the long term. 4 minutes. LAUNCH

10 Rules for Strategic Innovators – From Idea to Execution

Vijay Govindarajan explains the challenges to strategic innovation, how to innovate and execute in a global environment, and why organizations must rewire their “organizational DNA” across staffing, structure, systems, and culture. 90 minutes. LAUNCH

Business Model Innovation: Going Beyond Product and Service Improvements

Most organizations limit their innovation focus to a product or a service. However, as Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen will describe, executives are now viewing business model innovation as more important than product or service innovation moving forward. Even a thriving business must recognize early on when it needs a fundamental change. In this presentation, Clay will provide a roadmap for your organization to begin to evaluate your opportunities for business model innovation to enable break-through, game-changing products and/or services. 90 minutes. LAUNCH

Creating Hot Spots in Your Organization: Collaboration, Innovation and Engagement

Over the coming decade the capability of any company to survive and prosper will ultimately depend on the ability of executives to inspire, energize and connect employees and to create and nurture Hot Spots of innovation and excitement. 90 minutes. LAUNCH

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

What really makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creative at work? Teresa Amabile’s new research, conducted with her colleagues and based on analyzing nearly 12,000 daily diaries of team members working on collaborative creative projects, reveals some surprising answers. 90 minutes. LAUNCH

The Power of Elegance in Innovation, Strategy and Marketing

Matt May draws on the most compelling stories of individuals, teams and organizations to demonstrate how ideas and strategies are intelligently chiseled to allow customers to add their own touch and actually participate in the emerging situation. 90 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Tim Sanders: Innovation means Execution

Tim Sanders discusses how true innovation also means execution of the ideas. 2 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Lem Lasher: Open Innovation and Radical Transparency

R&D within the organization may not be sufficient to drive innovation. Open innovation means collaboration with academia, competitors, suppliers, customers, partners, external consultants in an exchange of ideas to discover and aggregate, rather than invent, products and services and taking these products and services to market in a viable business model. 2 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Keith Yamashita: Seeing: The Key to Innovation and Change

We are born with an ability to see in a deep way but rarely do. Seeing customers in a deep way — their hopes and dreams in addition to their daily activities — is the first step toward innovation and change. 2 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Dan Glaser: The Best Managers Have Creativity, Imagination and Passion

In order to build creativity and meaning among all associates, Dan Glaser first calls for this to be modeled in the managers at Marsh. Creativity, imagination and passion are what he most expects in his managers. If modeled well in leaders, every associate will feel inspired and that their contribution makes a difference. 3 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Chip Heath: How Does Innovation Really Happen?

Innovation may come not from thinking outside the box, but from finding the right box to think in. Chip Heath tells the story of a how a run-down hotel in San Francisco became successful by modeling itself after Rolling Stone magazine. 3 minutes. LAUNCH