Don’t Be Surprised, Prepare the Surprise Yourself
Tim Kastelle Here is a great quote from Ioan Tenner in a post on the strategy of…
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Evidence-Based Innovation Management
Yesterday I made the case for evidence-based management in general. Today I’d like to talk…
Read MoreThe Case for Evidence-Based Management
How can we be better managers? I just finished reading Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And…
Read MoreDon’t Follow Your Dreams, Follow Your Effort
We repeatedly see survey results that say that CEOs think that innovation is a top…
Read MoreWhy Do Razors Have Five Blades Now?
I remember that when Gillette came out with their double-bladed razor, I started joking about…
Read MoreDon’t Be First to Market, Be First to Scale
Often when people have an idea for a great new product or service, they rush…
Read MoreTwo Problems Caused by the Innovation Diffusion Curve
The economist Rudi Dornbusch succinctly describes the way that ideas spread: Things take longer to…
Read MoreHow to Think About the Future
Imagine that 100 of us have gathered together in a room somewhere. It’s a social…
Read MoreSo Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
I ran across an outstanding post today by John Battelle reviewing Where Good Ideas Come…
Read MoreReplace Fear of the Unknown With Curiousity
The Shift Index 2011 is out now, and as with the previous two editions, it…
Read MoreInnovation Problem: New Ideas Spread Slowly
There’s a big problem with innovation: ideas spread much more slowly than we expect them…
Read MoreTwo Great Innovation Misquotes
There are two popular quotes that often get used when discussing innovation that were never…
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