How to be innovative

Here are some tips that can help you be Innovative:

• Get to know your customers
• Visit unfamiliar territory
• Get inside the head of the end user
• Practice seeing more than what's in front of your eyes
• Explore far and wide
• "Test fast - fail fast - adjust fast." (Tom Peters)
• Create a dream team focus group - of your customers - and then seek their input with your product development or inventory assortment
• Look back in history and reflect on the winners. Do this kind of postmortem regularly.

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