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11.30.16
On Measuring Innovation
By: Karl R. LaPan, President and CEO, Northeast Indiana Innovation Center Innovation is a Messy Business. It also can be hard to measure. I’ve seen too many smart people get fixated on innovation metrics (measuring things like what % of our sales came from new products introduced in the last X years) for the sake […]
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship: A Look at Drucker’s Powerful Approach
By: Karl R. LaPan, President and CEO, Northeast Indiana Innovation Center One of my favorite management gurus is Peter Drucker. The Father of Modern Management is prescient. His thoughts about entrepreneurship are timeless. Drucker once said the the definition of an entrepreneur is “one who is crazy.” If you know anything about the business world […]
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Building a Culture of Innovation
By: Karl R. LaPan, President and CEO, Northeast Indiana Innovation Center Everyone benefits from building a culture of intrapreneurship at the workplace. It’s just that sometimes business owners don’t know where to begin when it comes to encouraging innovation on the job. Here are 4 tips for building a culture of innovation. Let go (Get […]
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Making space for creativity
By: Karl R. LaPan, President & CEO, Northeast Indiana Innovation Center This is the first of five blogs on creativity and innovation.We all need a certain amount of structure to get things done at work. But like anything, there’s such thing as too much self-discipline. Just like you plan your day around your to-do list, […]
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What makes an expert?
By: Karl R. Lapan, President & CEO, Northeast Indiana Innovation Center What makes you an expert? Today, there is a really low threshold for self-proclaiming your awesomeness in any field, especially on the web. By blogging, I might be considered a journalist. By taking an online, DIY course in drywalling, I might be construed as […]
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