Network Economy Problems: How to Get People to Give Up Old Ideas
Tim Kastelle One core innovation challenge is this: it’s often not enough to simply have a great…
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Are You Too Scared to Ask a Good Question?
John One of our long term research projects is the problem of innovating in large complicated…
Read More“Create the Niche You Will Occupy”
In a nice post inspired from the classic TED talk from Malcolm Gladwell, Harry Connolly’s…
Read MoreWithout People You’re Nothing – Joe Strummer
I watched The Future is Unwritten again this weekend, the documentary about Joe Strummer by…
Read MoreUse Data to Defeat “the Focus Group of One” Problem
The most successful ad campaign that I ever designed only ran two weeks before the…
Read MoreAll Life is an Experiment
Uncertainty is one thing that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Unfortunately, in most business…
Read MoreThree Types of Models: Simplistic, Complex and Simple
I was watching some MBA presentations this week, and they reminded me of a section…
Read MoreTools Don’t Solve Problems, People Do
What do you do if the tools you use to improve your innovation process actually…
Read MoreForget Products – Think Ecosystems
A colleague has just forwarded the brilliant ‘burning platform’ memo from Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop.…
Read MoreFor Inspiration, Look Everywhere Else
I just ordered a book called The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell. There…
Read MoreThe Innovation Mantra
Today I ran across this quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: As for the future, your…
Read MoreFinding Disruptive Ideas
We often talk about how innovation occurs along a spectrum. At one end there are…
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