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Here is Why You Need Business Model Innovation

By Tim Kastelle on 3 May 2013 in business models, experiments

Business model innovation is relatively easy to do when you’re a startup. But it’s also a really important skill for established firms to build. In this post I discuss why, and how to approach it effectively.

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Reframing Failure

By Tim Kastelle on 25 April 2013 in book riffs, experiments

We need new ways to talk about failure. Failure is useful, as long as it happens on a small scale, and as long as we learn from it. Here are some tips on how to do that.

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20 Things Good Managers Know About Innovation

By Tim Kastelle on 11 April 2013 in experiments, innovation strategy

People often think that innovation is a black box, but here are 20 things that we know are true about innovation.

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A Brief Introduction to Uncertainty in Business

By Tim Kastelle on 26 March 2013 in book riffs, complex systems, experiments

Risk and uncertainty are two different things. Mixing them up causes problems. Here are some ideas for dealing with uncertainty in particular.

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There’s No Innovation Without Uncertainty

By Tim Kastelle on 19 March 2013 in complex systems, experiments

Frederick Douglass said “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground…” He was talking about political reform, but this is also true of innovation as well.

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Culture Provides the Beat for Your Organisation

By Tim Kastelle on 26 February 2013 in experiments, innovation

Kristin Hersh’s two bands sound very different. Why? Because they have two different drummers. Culture plays that role in organisations. An idea that works great in one culture may fail miserably in an organisation with a different culture.

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Three Obstacles to Innovation Diffusion

By Tim Kastelle on 12 February 2013 in experiments, innovation strategy

People often think that having a great idea is the hard part of innovating. Most of the time, this isn’t the problem. Getting the new idea to spread is.

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Innovation Happens in the Gaps

By Tim Kastelle on 5 February 2013 in book riffs, experiments, innovation strategy

Organisations that are just starting out at innovating often go out and immediately buy expensive tools. This is a mistake – they don’t know enough to innovate effectively yet. Here are some thoughts about how to work around that problem.

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You Better Reconsider Your Assumptions

By Tim Kastelle on 31 January 2013 in experiments

Often, when things don’t go the way we expect them to, we’re operating with faulty assumptions. Some recent issues with my cat Wallace illustrate this point.

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Is Innovation Part of Your Organisation’s DNA?

By Tim Kastelle on 22 January 2013 in experiments, leadership

I’ve run across four firms that have been wildly successful in a terrible retail environment. All of them share a few characteristics that result from having innovation embedded in their DNA.

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Four Key Issues in Innovation Management

By Ralph-Christian on 14 January 2013 in business models, experiments, innovation, Management, The Innovation Matrix

Ralph Ohr & I met up at the end of last year and talked a lot about the state of innovation. These are the four issues that we identified as the ones that we think are the most important/interesting in the field right now.

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