A medical emergency for my cat Wallace leads to surprising discoveries about a common household product, which teach some useful innovation lessons.
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When is an Innovation an Innovation?
Greg and I have been talking about whether or not innovation needs a purpose. While we agree on many points, we can see two differing views on the question. I will argue that within an organisation, innovation does need a purpose, and here is Greg’s post arguing the other side. Let’s start by looking at [...]
Culture Provides the Beat for Your Organisation
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.
Integrative Innovation
This post was first published as opening post to my new blog, titled Integrative Innovation. Some people I’ve been collaborating with have recently encouraged me to open up an own blog. After having given it some thought, I decided to do so. I’m launching a new site and platform titled “Integrative Innovation” to share ideas [...]
Reading This Post Will Change Your Brain!
Using the internet changes your brain. So does drinking a cup of tea. The big question is what actions do these changes enable? I want us to use the ideas here to make work work better.
Four Key Issues in Innovation Management
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.
Your Brand is What You Do
Here’s the story of one the dumbest decisions I ever made as a marketer. I was managing sales & marketing for a software startup at the time. We were part of a group that included a retail & wholesale computer store as well. The thing that set the retail store apart was that we made [...]
What Will Make Nate Silver Blow Up? Political Innovation
The emergence of the poll aggregators, especially Nate Silver, was one of the stories of the election for me. While these methods are a huge advance, there are still ways that they can fail. The key cause might be political innovation.
How to Manage Innovation as a Process
The Innovation Value Chain is a great tool to use to help you manage innovation as a process. This post uses a small case study to show how to use it.
Change Your Frame of Reference for Better Innovation
What we can accomplish is enabled by how we view the world. It’s also constrained by how we view the world. Figuring out how to change our frame of view is a powerful innovation tool.
Why the Future of Innovation is Open
As outlined in my previous post, sustainable innovation requires evolution and revolution. Over the long term, organizations need to be capable of both moving along existing growth trajectories and creating new ones when the old business matures or stalls. This can be depicted as recurring movement along innovation s-curves. In the case of a new [...]
Mistakes versus Experiments
One of the reasons that people try to avoid failing is that it seems like they’ve screwed up if they fail. This can certainly be the case, if your failure is major. But if you set up experiments to test ideas out, and you learn from them, then failing can be very productive. Here is [...]
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Here’s Why You Need to Build Your Innovation Capability
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Three Steps for Social Media Success
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Innovation Lessons from the Rise of Tesla Motors
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Five More Thinkers That I Admire
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Food, Connection & Innovation
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Here is Why You Need Business Model Innovation
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Talk is the Technology of Leadership
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Joe Johns: It is not, NOT, the government's money. It is you...
- Weekly Roundup: Three reads for the weekend - Burwell General Store: [...] Think ‘Network Structure’, Not &...
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Tim Kastelle: Well, if you're ideologically opposed to governme...
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Thomas Blum: Please have a read to this link: http://online.ws...
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- Here's Why You Need to Build Your Innovation Capability - Innovation for Growth: [...] I’ve always been skeptical of “e...
- Here's Why You Need to Build Your Innovation Capability - Innovation for Growth: [...] there’s a fair bit of evidence accumul...
Books
Free eBook! Using the Innovation Matrix
Collects all of my recent posts on the Innovation Matrix.
Tim's book Handbook on the Knowledge Economy, Volume 2, co-edited with David Rooney and Greg Hearn, is out now everywhere in the world. Ask your library for it!
Metrics
Tim was named #5 in the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers in 2011 at Innovation Excellence.
Tim and John were both named in the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers in 2010 at Innovation Excellence.
