Psychology and Spreading Ideas
John Tim wrote a great post last week on being responsible for getting your ideas to…
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Your Customer Isn’t “Everyone” – Seven Innovation Thoughts Triggered by Peter Drucker
Tim Kastelle Of all the management writers I’ve read, Peter Drucker probably generates more interesting quotes per…
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So you’ve had a great new idea for making something better, and you’ve figured out…
Read MoreHow to Take Advantage of Surprises
If the budget that you’re managing blows out one month and you’ve spent 200% of…
Read MoreWhy Innovation is Less Risky Than You Think
One of the most common excuses I run across for not innovating is risk aversion.…
Read MoreEvidence-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 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 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…
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