Tag Archives | Innovation and Idea Management

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.

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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There Must Be Forty Ways to Innovate

By Tim Kastelle on 5 November 2012 in business models, innovation strategy

Here’s a list of forty different ways that we can innovate. When we start to combine them, we can come with thousands of potential ways to structure our innovation process. Innovating the way we innovate is a huge opportunity.

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What is Innovation?

By Tim Kastelle on 5 September 2012 in innovation strategy

People often think it’s weird when they hear that I study innovation – even people in very innovative jobs. The biggest reason for this is mistaking invention for innovation. If you do this, then studying innovation makes no sense at all – what can you learn about the flash of insight, the stroke of genius, [...]

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