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How Innovation Really Happens We tend to seek out creative ideas that will result in innovation, thinking that will bring about success. But popular theories of how innovation happens are actually wrong; more work is required than some think. There is more to innovation than just great ideas—and there is more to success than innovation. |
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A New Year’s Resolution for Testers: Let’s Innovate With time and cost constraints and high product expectations, teams are having to innovate when it comes to how they think and operate. Testers play an important role in this drive, and not just a handful of them—with due diligence and effort, anyone can step into the innovation zone. Read on. |
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What the Sports Icon Dick Fosbury Can Teach Us about Innovation For the most part of his early career, Dick Fosbury was an average high jumper. After Fosbury questioned the normal jumping technique and then mastered another technique, he went on to win Olympic gold. Anuj Magazine highlights some lessons we can learn from Fosbury and other innovators. |
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If Failing Fast Is Good, Why Aren’t Mistakes Rewarded? Most literature about innovation tells us that making mistakes is fundamental to creative thinking. With so much focus on experimentation and failing, why is making mistakes still looked down on in most organizations? To answer this question, Anuj Magazine looks at what mistakes really are. |
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Can Innovation Be a Result of SMART Goals? Adopting innovation as a driving theme for an organization raises the important question of how best to set goals for achieving innovation. One of the popular philosophies of goal setting is better known as SMART goals, which stands for specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. |
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Google Introduces Smart Contact Lens That Reads Glucose Levels Google announced that it is in the process of developing a smart contact lens that can measure glucose levels through tears. This innovation has the potential to help more than just diabetics. These lenses could one day measure other biometric data, and they could even become the next Google Glass. |
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Technology Trendsetters: Are They Start-Ups or Established Companies? At the end of each calendar year, the typical ritual in the technology world is to look back at which technologies did well in the past year and what the upcoming trends are. Who is setting the trends—the start-ups or the more established software makers? |
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Why Developer Stack Ranking Is an Innovation Killer Many companies swear by stack ranking, citing retention of high performers and the ability to track performance as two of the biggest benefits. Despite these claims, stack ranking has numerous unintentional side effects that work against a culture of innovation. |
