The Story Behind The World’s Most Incompetent Drawings
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By all objective measures, the drawings I use in my talks and on this blog are not particularly skilled. So why do I use them? Here’s the story.
Category Archives: experiments
If You Want to Be Innovative, Innovate
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You can’t think your way to being more innovative – you have to innovate your way there.
Solvitur ambulando – A Great Creativity Hack
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If you feel disconnected from life, or too wrapped up in tech, or too busy to work on important things, you can solve your problem by walking.
An Ideas Boom is a Good Start, But What We Really Need is an Impact Boom
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Ideas are an important part of innovation, but if that’s all we focus on, we will fail. Impact is more important, and we create that by creating value for people.
Innovation Force = Innovation Mass x Acceleration
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When we have a great new idea, we want to move fast with it. But we also want impact, and to get that, we need to make sure that we don’t accelerate before we’ve gotten the idea nailed first.
You Are What You Try
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According to Tom Peters, whoever tries the most stuff wins. Time to start experimenting.
Theaster Gates: Innovation Through Community, Purpose and Reimagination
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Theaster Gates is an artist, and these days he is revitalising neighbourhoods through an artistic process. His great work provides many innovation lessons.
How to Find Your First Customers
Part 7 in The Lean Startup Series
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One of the goals of lean startup is to find your early adopters – here are some practical ideas for doing that.
We’ve Hit Peak Innovation (Hype)
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The hype around innovation right now seems overwhelming. Does this mean that we’ve hit Peak Innovation? No – we’ve hit Peak Innovation Hype. To avoid the hype, we need to understand what is already known about the substance of innovation.
Efficiency is the Enemy of Innovation
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Innovation requires slack – are you taking enough time to innovate?
Innovation and Organizational Culture
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Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “Most Innovative Companies 2014” survey. Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye. According to BCG’s research, successfully innovating companies approach innovation as a system. The system is rooted in experimentation, […]
Two Ways to Deal With Innovation Uncertainty More Effectively
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Innovating means that we are seeking out uncertainty. The ideas of scaled investments and affordable losses can help us reduce this uncertainty, and increase our chances of succeeding.
