The Business Model for Doing Something You Love

How do you build a business model for doing something that you love? It’s a difficult question. In most cases, it means that you need to build some sort of craft-based business model, which can be challenging. But if you do it right, you can create smarter conversations – a recent idea from Hugh MacLeod. […]

Work With Tim & John

This is the latest page that we’ve added on the top menu: Engaging with people that are entrepreneurs, or involved in managing innovation is one of our top priorities. Trying to help people doing these things is one of the objectives with this blog. However, you may find that the material here isn’t specific enough […]

More Bang for the Innovation Buck

I’ve written a series of posts over the past year about connecting innovation to strategy. Looking back a these there are two main points that keep jumping out. The first of these is to recognize which of the three horizons the business is in. Innovating in Horizon 3, with the development of speculative but potentially […]

Innovate Through Appreciation

One of the critical parts of the innovation process is getting our great ideas to spread. Diffusion is often the stumbling block for innovative new ideas. There is a section towards the end of Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky that provides some interesting insights into how to attack this problem. Belsky describes a storytelling […]