Tim and I are now writing a lot on the importance of focus. Being successful with innovation is about managing the paradox of ‘disciplined creation’ and it helps to have some clear ideas about what you are trying to achieve and how you are going to create value. Part of this discipline is taking time […]

I often have people ask me how to build an innovative culture. The simple answer that is hard to execute is this: you build an innovative culture by innovating. Executing ideas is a critical part of innovation. If you think that innovation is only about having ideas, you won’t actually make anything. As fake Mark […]

List posts are bad. They are highly popular, but they are the junk food of blogs. They hold out the promise of doing something interesting, but in the end they’re usually linkbait. If you read posts on how to get more traffic for your blog, making list posts is high on the inevitable list that […]

Note: this post has been updated in The Innovation Matrix Reloaded. Here’s a sketch that I came up with last week that helps explain how organisations get better at innovation: This is a bit of a distillation of observations over time.  I thought of it because I think that a lot of people that are […]