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― "There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote
that I love. 'I skate to where the puck
is going to be, not where it has been.'
And we've always tried to do that at
Apple. Since the very very beginning.
And we always will." —Steve Jobs

Apple innovates through:
• Creativity and Innovation
• Innovation in Products
• Innovation in Business Model
• Innovation in Customer Experience
• Innovation and Leadership
• Steve Jobs

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• Increase revenue more than 400% in 8 years…
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Apple's Innovation Strategy - Learn How Apple Innovates

How does Apple, the #1 innovative company in the world, innovate and create game-changing innovations such as the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad and more? What is Apple's secret recipe for innovation success? How does Steve Jobs innovate?


What is Apple's Innovation Strategy? Download these Apple Innovation eBook insights and learn to be like Apple... like Steve Jobs, the innovator and CEO of Apple.


― "There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote
that I love. 'I skate to where the puck
is going to be, not where it has been.'
And we've always tried to do that at
Apple. Since the very very beginning.
And we always will." —Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Inc.

Apple innovates through:
• Creativity and Innovation
• Innovation in Products
• Innovation in Business Model
• Innovation in Customer Experience
• Innovation and Leadership
• Steve Jobs Legendary Leadership

This Apple Innovation Strategy ebook provides insights, strategy, best practices, facts and much more...

Apple has built an Innovation Factory – one that harnesses unbridled creativity from its people, stimulating bold & enterprising new ideas, and launching successful, profitable new innovations... time and again! Apple leverages its diverse ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, partners & global networks, proven innovation process, and a winning culture that doesn't accept second place - to seize the new opportunities in the marketplace and grow its business... exponentially…


How did Apple do it?
• Increase revenue more than 1,200% since 2000
• Increase net profit more than 3,000% since 2000
• Increase market cap more than thirty five times to over $300 billion and
counting…

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China and India driving Innovation

Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan, in a key address at the 14th World Productivity Congress (WPC) held in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, emphasized the role of technology and innovation in China towards developing productivity and realizing sustainable development.

Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

Zeng proposed that in order to "realize sustainable development, China should institute an advanced system of productivity which considers new technology industries as the pioneers, basic and manufacturing industries as supporting players, all of which will help the service sector develop to its fullest". Zeng even called for implementing the strategy of reinvigorating the country through science, education and trained personnel and building a system of innovation. Zeng proclaimed that such innovative systems will "ensure scientific development which help transform the mode of economic growth to achieve harmonious and sustainable development." Zeng also wants to reduce pollution and energy consumption so as to create a safer and cleaner environment for productivity to thrive.

The China drive towards innovation and productivity is consistent with Friedman's assessment in "The World is Flat."

In a separate news story, The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is planning to create a National Innovation Grid in India. CII in a partnership with Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CFEL) of Cambridge University is proposing to set up a virtual network of information to drive innovation in Indian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The National Innovation Grid would act as a facilitator and driver for SMEs who can leverage the knowledge gained from CFEL and infrastructure capital from CII to create innovative new businesses. This has the potential to accelerate growth in the Indian SMEs.

"CII`s alliance with East of England International, a hi-tech cluster with Cambridge is focused at developing a model for linking small entrepreneurs and individual innovators with linking academia, research and development institutions, businesses as well as the government to facilitate innovation in the SME sector in India", CII President R Seshasayee said.

CII also launched a new program: "Towards 100 Indian `Billion $' MNCs" in partnership with Infosys. The program has a lofty goal of helping 100 new Indian Multi-National Companies achieve One Billion Dollars in revenue within the next ten years through an "ecosystem" of partners.

Bottomline

China and India are driving Innovation to develop productivity, create sustainable development, and achieve new business growth. Both countries are realizing the strategic importance of Innovation as they seek to create new economic growth in the future. New technology industries, SMEs and even Billion Dollar MNCs are on the horizon.

Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

References:
Xinhua online
Zee News
Hindu

Can Leadership create Innovation?

In a story on "Connecting the Dots between Innovation and Leadership" published by Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton management professor Michael Useem asked an important question at the roundtable: "How are Innovation and Leadership linked?", "How do we lead in a way that generates Innovation?" The panelists were asked to describe a single factor that is critical to innovation.

Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

Here were the ten answers by the panelists on what drives Innovation at their companies:

1. Marketing

According to C. Robert Henrikson, chairman and CEO of global insurer MetLife, the focus is on marketing. According to Henrikson, Innovation happens because of true marketing, not merely sales support; for example, executives beyond the sales team, such as lawyers and financial officers, need to meet with customers regularly. "All parts of the organization must have a sense of the customers' business to anticipate their needs and reach out with innovative ideas," he said. Henrikson observed that most insurance companies have no marketing and are simply followers of innovation established by competitors. He further emphasized that: "I can't wake up and say, 'It's good to be a fast follower.' You have to get out in front of consumer behavior. That is what will be the differentiator in our industry."

2. Size

Alex Gorsky, head of Pharma North America and CEO of Novartis North America, indicated that "It's really important not to confuse size with true innovation. Research shows big is not necessarily better." Gorsky noted that all the mergers have made drug companies big in size, but not big on innovation. Rather, the smaller biotech companies or divisions are causing real innovations according to Gorsky.

3. Culture

According to Seth Waugh, CEO of Deutsche Bank Americas, culture is a critical factor in promoting innovation. Business leaders stimulate innovation by offering incentives to workers, creating an environment, and setting expectations. Waugh noted: "You must have people with that hunger to always learn, who are always open and who think about things in a different way. You always have to reinvent yourself tomorrow."

4. Technology

Retired partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs, Connie K. Duckworth talked about the important role of technology driving innovation. "The advent of desktop information technology transformed the financial services industry on Wall Street in the 1980s and 1990s," she noted. Duckworth observed that "new computer technology allowed companies to analyze the role of risk and to track risk in financial services, which changed the dynamics of the business."

5. Passion

Patricia Danzon, Wharton professor of health care systems and a consummate researcher on pharmaceutical industry mergers, identified passion as critical to innovation. Although passion is difficult to quantify, Danzon elaborated that passion may be linked to workers who have a stake in the business, either financially or in small firms where there is clear authority and little bureaucracy. Danzon stated, "So much innovation in the pharmaceutical industry is coming from the small firms ... and it seems to come from the passion and the involvement of being master of your own destiny."

6. Active Participation

Jeffrey Katz, CEO of Sherwood Equities, a New York City developer, and a major investor in Times Square, said business leaders must remain open and receptive to what comes their way in the form of new deals in order to capitalize on opportunities, and then seize these opportunities. He observed that "the marketplace, at least in New York, is extremely [fast-changing]. Unless you are sensitized and able to react right away, you will be reading about a deal next week rather than doing it."

7. Hard Work

Peter Linneman, Wharton finance professor and founding chairman of Wharton's real estate department, had a more real world perspective. He said there is no magic "Aha!" moment in most innovation. According to Linneman, "It's just all hard work -- showing up everyday in the morning, studying plans, walking around seeing what other people are doing. If you wait for 'eureka,' you are never going to have innovation."

8. Internal Development

Seth Waugh observed that it is preferable to create new businesses within the company first, because a homegrown enterprise is likely to fit better in the existing corporate culture. And he noted that this has the advantage of keeping the organization flat. Henrikson also believes in internal development as the passport to innovation. Henrickson emphasized, it’s talented managers -- not necessarily acquisitions -- that drive innovation. Katz is in the build-from-within camp. In order to grow, he encourages contrarian thinking. He noted that "if a developer waits to see what the crowd is doing, it's too late."

9. Targeted Acquisitions

Waugh believes that highly targeted "rifle-shot" acquisition, when an opportunity integrates well with the parent company's overall portfolio, is a strategic approach to stay ahead of the competition. Henrikson believes otherwise. Gorsky observes, "The area where it (acquisition) does make sense is in complementary technology with new technology partners." For example, Novartis' acquisition of Chiron Corp., a biotech firm with a specialty in vaccine development and production, as an example of an acquisition that fits well with Novartis' broader strengths.

10. Agility

Katz emphasizes the importance of agility to reshape development plans. He believes agility can create new ways of efficient and effective development that can span over months and years for completion.

Some of the panelists observed that leaders remain intently fixed on customers to uncover clues to innovation, realize and achieve the need for balance in quantitative skills and people skills, possess emotional intelligence and sensitivity to multi-cultural and multi-generational issues, demonstrate persistence in sticking with a goal although with flexibility, and execute on great ideas.

Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

If you enjoyed reading this Innovation best practice, I recommend the complete list of Creativity Innovation Best Practices.

Acknowledgements:

"Connecting the Dots between Innovation and Leadership", Knowledge@Wharton. Click here for the complete story.

Education driving Innovation in The World Is Flat

In his bestseller, "The World Is Flat", Thomas L. Friedman elaborates on the role of our style of Education driving Innovation.

Bill Gates View

Specifically, when Friedman asked Bill Gates, the Founder of Microsoft, about the the "supposed American Education advantage - an education that stresses creativity, not rote learning", Gates dismissed this entirely. Gates believes that it is a sad mistake for the (American) people to think that the rote-learning systems of China and Japan can't turn out Innovation. Gates even goes on to say "Who has the most creative video games in the world? Japan! I never met those 'rote people' ...Some of my best software developers are Japanese."

Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

Race to the Top

Friedman stresses that "Young Chinese, Indians, and Poles are not racing us to the bottom. They are racing us to the top." Further, Friedman claims that they want to dominate the world "by creating the companies of the future, ones that people all over the world will admire and clamor to work for." He gives an example of a Chinese American who was working for Microsoft, and accompanied Gates on visits to China. According to him, Gates is the equivalent of the modern rock star in China. The young people in China would do anything to hear Gates speak, including scalping tickets. Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo!, is also in the same category.

And then Friedman makes a statement that reverberates with a loud echo (and bass) throughout the entire book:

"In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears - and that is our problem"

Indeed.

Our Production

According to most statistics, the number of foreign graduate students in the U.S. colleges in Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering are greater than 60%, in some cases even more than 90%. Most graduate students are from Asia. We are not producing the high number of Scientists, Mathematicians and the Engineers of the future, as we used to throughout the Twentieth century, to create future Innovations. It appears that the world is producing more intellectual talent, and will continue to produce more in the immediate future - and the irony is that the world is coming to the U.S. colleges to learn to become Innovative.

Growth of Education in China

Friedman observes that China today is becoming increasingly confident of their K-12 education system, of their fundamental strengths in Math and Sciences, and the Chinese youth are getting ready to "unleash their creative, innovative juices." Wu Qidi, China's vice minister of education, believes that nurturing more "creative thinking and entrepreneurship are the exact issues we are putting attention to today." Education overhaul is undergoing a massive movement in China. Large number of scholars, teachers and professors who have been educated in America and Europe are returning and are imparting changes to the classrooms and learning in China - even Arts is now getting taught. China believes that Education will pave the road to the future. And China has the roots of inventions dating back to the compass, papermaking, printing and gunpowder to back this claim. It is just a matter of time. And according to Gates, the Microsoft Research Asia based in Beijing has become the most productive research arm in the Microsoft system "in terms of the quality of ideas that they are turning out. It is mind-blowing."

Questions, Questions

These raises some important questions about the future of Education and Innovation here in the U.S.:

Do we need to change our Education system to compete versus the world, and create more Innovation in the future?

How do we create more Scientists, Mathematicians and Engineers today and in the future?

Do we believe that we can simply "outsource" the intellectual talent from abroad and create the type of Innovation that we have been known for?

In thirty years, which Innovative companies in the world will be in the Top 100 list?

There are no easy answers to any of these questions as our policy makers will ascertain.

But at least this much is certain: The role of Education, and in particular, Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering, is fundamental to Innovation. And the more Scientists, Mathematicians and Engineers we produce, the more Innovation we can expect in the future.

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Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

Acknowledgement:

Thomas L. Friedman, "The World Is Flat"

Ten Percent of Sales from Innovation

Here's a great story that appeared in Ireland's Top Business Site, Business World.

According to the Irish Industrial Policy Body Forfas, "Firms in Ireland reckon that 10 percent of their turnover (sales) is due to product innovation."

This is a great testimony to the role of Creativity and Innovation in Business.

"A total of 34.6 Billion Euro was estimated to be a result of product innovation between 2002 and 2004," says Forfas. "This amounted to 10.1 percent of total turnover (sales) in 2004."

Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

Forfas further revealed that:
"29.1 Billion Euro of this came from firms in the industrial sector, and 5.5 Billion Euro from the services sector."

Industrial sector is big on innovation since it contributed 17.1 percent of its sales from Innovation, whereas the Services sector of the business only contributed 3.1 percent of the sales owing to Innovation.

This further validates the successful role that Innovation and Creativity plays towards topline sales growth.

Forfas further claims that 52.2 percent of all businesses were "Innovation Active", meaning that some portion of their sales resulted from successful product innovation.

What were the top issues that blocked or compromised innovation?

Companies surveyed indicated "lack of funds, high costs of innovation and lack of skills." This could mean that some companies are either not profitable, have minimum profits or perhaps losing money that they are not able to fund innovation. Or some companies have done their homework and believe the cost of innovating is considerable, and perhaps detrimental to their current growth plans. Finally, companies may not have sufficient creative talent that can help fuel the innovation.

Forfas defined Innovation quite broadly to include R and D, engineering development work, purchases of machinery, software acquisition, purchases of external knowledge and training, and design and marketing - essentially new development or new investments that fueled new growth.

Forfas rightfully claims that "The percent of total turnover from new-to-market product innovations is an indicator of creativity and novelty across the economy." Indeed.

What percent of your sales are contributed by Innovation? Is it more than ten percent? Do you even track your sales to Innovation? And what hinders Innovation at your company?

Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

For the complete story, please click here.

Hackers, Controlled Chaos and Innovation

When was the last time you associated a hacker with a badge of honor! And believed that a hacker can help your company innovate amidst controlled chaos for 24 hours. Look no further. Internet giant Yahoo! is hosting an overnight "hack-a-thon" for hackers, aka computer software experts next week, and it is "Free".

Yahoo! network developer director Chad Dickerson not only equates Hackers within his Yahoo Development Community with carrying a badge of honor, but also provides such attributes as "someone who really knows how to build things with computers, not destroy things."

Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

In a story reported today by AFP writer Glenn Chapman, Yahoo! is hosting a 24-hour programming free-for-all as its first public "Hack Day" next week - perhaps taking a page out of the Google annual competition. Dickerson claims this as a natural extension of events that engineers inside the company routinely hold.

Why host an event like this?

"To inspire new twists on Yahoo services as well as reclaim "hacker" as a name for those adept at manipulating software in creative, not malicious, ways," said Yahoo network developer director Chad Dickerson.

Which brings us to our central point?

Are Innovative companies such as Yahoo! and Google looking for creative ways to become even more innovative? Or is this event just to create some noise and awareness in the software community?

About 500 Software developers (hackers) from the United States and Canada are expected to arrive, live in a tent for 24 hours at the Yahoo campus in Sunnyvale, California, on September 29 and hack away at the company's programs, which would be provided. They can work in teams, work solo, work in whatever style they wish and produce results within 24 hours.

Dickerson even claims that "We find that the most creative ideas come from hackers who have no previous idea of what to do. It is a surprise even to us what they build."

If Yahoo! is indeed successful in finding "new twists on Yahoo services" through a controlled chaos of an event such as this with all the hackers, it would certainly be a first in their long page of innovations.

Beyond the innovation that such an event can potentially bring, Dickerson also wants to portray an "openness" culture of his company and perhaps give the hackers the positive limelight that they crave for - at least for one day.

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Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

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