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Why Either/Or Thinking is Dangerous

By Tim Kastelle on 13 December 2012 in complex systems

Do people love change or hate it? Are big firms better at innovation or are small ones? The answer to these questions is “both” – and we need to develop some skills for dealing with that.

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Here’s Why Many Innovation Initiatives Fail

By Tim Kastelle on 25 November 2012 in business models, design

Wouldn’t it be great if you could do customer service like Zappos? Or design like Apple? Or innovation like 3M? Who wouldn’t want to be like those firms? Well, it’s not so simple. Barry Dalton wrote an excellent post called You Can’t Be Zappos (and why would you want to be?) addressing exactly this issue. [...]

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What Will Make Nate Silver Blow Up? Political Innovation

By Tim Kastelle on 12 November 2012 in book riffs, 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.

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The Attacker’s Dilemma

By Tim Kastelle on 22 September 2012 in connect, filter

The Bing It One challenge would have been a great tool in 1998. Unfortunately, now that Google dominates search, an improved algorithm isn’t enough to get people to switch. This is the Attacker’s Dilemma: unless you bring a major performance improvement, there is no point in directly attacking a strong incumbent in their area of strength.

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The Problem With Google

By Tim Kastelle on 13 September 2012 in complex systems, connect, filter

How can you learn what you need to know to become an expert? It requires deep knowledge of a field, but it also requires broad knowledge of related fields. Our current technologies support deep, but not broad. We need to figure out a way to find t-shaped knowledge.

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