Idea Libraries

Want To Create A Breakout Product? Start With A Narrow Focus

One thing we've learned from Apple over the years: Roll out a limited product and expand it later.

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Want To Upend An Entire Industry? Change Its Revenue Stream

By looking at the eight possible revenue models, writes Jump's Ryan Baum, you can reinvent a business.

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What Designing The New Girl Scouts Innovation Badges Taught Us About Raising Leaders

As part of the organization's rebranding, the Girl Scouts has introduced an innovation component. In designing the program, Jump Associates developed some tips for training girls to become future leaders.

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7 Steps For Creating Disruptive New Retail Experiences

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There are 3 Types of Innovation – Here's How To Manage Them

By tailoring the product development process for different kinds of innovations, a firm can give itself the opportunity to generate immediate new product revenues while cultivating future opportunities.

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Sometimes a Brand Isn't Worth Saving – Here's How To Tell

Five questions to ask before deciding whether to invest in a rebranding campaign or pull the plug.

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Revitalizing Your Business

Just because a brand is under-performing does not mean it should be reinvented. Ask these 5 key questions.

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What's in a Name?

Ironically, what companies call teams tasked with disruptive change often determine their success.

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Making Sense of Ambiguous Challenges

If you change your business model, you'll also change your idea.

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Parallel Clustering: Synthesizing Insights into Clear Directions

How to reach consensus when faced with new data.

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In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm

An in-depth look at Jump and the art of tackling highly ambiguous chllaenges.

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Why Can't Big Companies Solve Big Problems?

Companies can manage complexity, but they're quite bad at tackling ambiguity.

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Thriving in Ambiguity

What can we learn from organizations that seem to thrive in uncertain environments.

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Could Empathy Teach Marketers to Cease Fire?

If marketers acted more like the "marketed to," we'd all be better off.

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Wanted: Creative Leaders for Energy

What are the strategy lessons we can learn from the Deepwater disaster.

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Seven Ways to See the World in a New Light

Business growth today requires new ways of looking at the world around you.

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Don’t Miss Out, Watch the Game Film

Football coaches pore over the game film. We should do the same in business.

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The Art of Looking

More than ever, top-line business growth requires new ways of looking at the world.

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True Empathy is Key to Effective Philanthropy

Exploring the impact of empathy in the non-profit world.

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The Fundamentals of Innovation

How IBM, Hallmark, and Apple get innovation right, but not for the reasons you think.

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The Ten Habits of Great Ideators

Consider this article your first history lesson in the secrets of ideation.

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Mapping The Future in Uncertain Times

Opportunity maps help leaders chart a path for future growth.

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Reinventing the MBA: 4 Reasons to Mix Business With Design Thinking

Why the old MBA framework is broken.

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The San Diego Zoo's Newest Exhibit: Innovation

The San Diego Zoo proves it's never too late to rethink your business model.

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Innovation Starts with Empathy

To grow, develop deep connections with the people you serve.

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Embrace Your Small Ideas for Big Impacts

Nothing can kill innovation faster than the performance anxiety.

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Rewiring Your Corporation for Intuition

Imagine a place where every person has an intuitive connection to customers.

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Crafting Your Own Innovation Strategy

A good innovation strategy requires rigorous thinking, backed up data.

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Forget Design Thinking and Try Hybrid Thinking

Hybridity is the key to tackling today's most ambiguous business challenges.

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How Real Innovation Moves the Needle

In tough times, innovation matters. Just remember: It's not about novelty.

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Four Opportunities to Strengthen a Brand Community

Building brand communities in a confusing Web 2.0 world.

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Sustainability Is a Growth Strategy

Create a culture that embraces change to tackle sustainability.

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Designing for Green Adoption

Every company on the planet will soon have to tackle sustainability.

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How to Find Insights from Research

You did the interviews and compiled the reams of data. Now what?

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Why Empathy Matters at Work

Work doesn't have to be all about the rules, it's important to show your human side.

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Sustainability as a Tool for Reinvention

Driving business growth by integrating sustainability and innovation.

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The Open-Empathy Organization

Companies prosper when they tap into the power of empathy.

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Don't Wait to Innovate

If it ain't broke, you can still make it better. How empathy helped a well-run office do even better.

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The Power of Community in Marketing

There is a better way to rethink marketing in an economic downturn.

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Obama and the Age of Empathy

Empathy gets a bad rap. But it's a hard wired trait that we should all embrace.

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Getting Brand Communities Right

In today’s turbulent world, people are hungry for a sense of connection.

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Research Strategies for Future Planning

Using scenario planning techniques to set up for long-term success.

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Creating New Value In A Changing World

Want to grow in times of change? Listen, and give the people what they want.

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Empathy Is Growth

Knowing the wants of your customers is more important than out-innovating your competitors.

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Company Growth Through Opportunity Maps

Learn to distinguish between the moves you should make and those to avoid.

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Wired to Care

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