Tools for Unlocking Innovation
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This week’s collection of the best innovation posts includes ideas on open innovation, purpose, hiring the best people, and the theremin.
Tim Kastelle
Where Others See Only Barriers, Innovators See Opportunities
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What are your barriers to business success? A study from my colleagues shows that innovators don’t see barriers. Instead, they use obstacles to spur innovations that help them outpace the competition.
Improve Your Personal Innovation Skills
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The Difference Between Good and Great
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The way to win is to be extremely good at the jobs that are diabolically hard – figure out how to do that, and you’ll do ok.
3 Innovation Triggers: Fear, Fantasy & Frustration
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To innovate, we need three things: a great idea, that creates value for people, made real. If we only have two out of the three, then we have an innovation trigger: fear, fantasy or frustration.
Culture and Innovation
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The culture in our firms has a big influence on how innovative we are. Two ways to change the culture are to go with a flatter organisational hierarchy, and to examine the assumptions that underlie our culture.
Who Invented the Computer?
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Do you know who invented the computer? Most people don’t – I’m not even sure that there is an answer to that question. The fact that we don’t know tells us a lot about how innovation actually works.
The Secret is That There is No Secret
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Here’s the secret to innovation: there are no secrets. The only way to get better at innovating is to do the work – get better at experimenting.
Change: Simple, but Not Easy
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Often, seeing the way forward is simple. But making the needed is not easy. Here are some thoughts on how to do this more successfully.
We Only Need Innovation on Two Occasions
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An innovation quip.
Living With Fear
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What Do You Stand For?
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Despite what we keep hearing, physical retail isn’t dead. The key to thriving is by standing for something – having a purpose.