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Tim Kastelle

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Posted on Friday, 3 May 2013

Here is Why You Need Business Model Innovation

by Tim Kastelle

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Business model innovation is relatively easy to do when you’re a startup. But it’s also a really important skill for established firms to build. In this post I discuss why, and how to approach it effectively.

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Posted on Thursday, 25 April 2013

Reframing Failure

by Tim Kastelle

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We need new ways to talk about failure. Failure is useful, as long as it happens on a small scale, and as long as we learn from it. Here are some tips on how to do that.

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Posted on Thursday, 11 April 2013

20 Things Good Managers Know About Innovation

by Tim Kastelle

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People often think that innovation is a black box, but here are 20 things that we know are true about innovation.

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Posted on Tuesday, 26 March 2013

A Brief Introduction to Uncertainty in Business

by Tim Kastelle

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Risk and uncertainty are two different things. Mixing them up causes problems. Here are some ideas for dealing with uncertainty in particular.

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Posted on Tuesday, 19 March 2013

There’s No Innovation Without Uncertainty

by Tim Kastelle

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Frederick Douglass said “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground…” He was talking about political reform, but this is also true of innovation as well.

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Posted on Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Culture Provides the Beat for Your Organisation

by Tim Kastelle

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Kristin Hersh’s two bands sound very different. Why? Because they have two different drummers. Culture plays that role in organisations. An idea that works great in one culture may fail miserably in an organisation with a different culture.

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Posted on Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Three Obstacles to Innovation Diffusion

by Tim Kastelle

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People often think that having a great idea is the hard part of innovating. Most of the time, this isn’t the problem. Getting the new idea to spread is.

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Posted on Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Innovation Happens in the Gaps

by Tim Kastelle

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Organisations that are just starting out at innovating often go out and immediately buy expensive tools. This is a mistake – they don’t know enough to innovate effectively yet. Here are some thoughts about how to work around that problem.

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Posted on Thursday, 31 January 2013

You Better Reconsider Your Assumptions

by Tim Kastelle

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Often, when things don’t go the way we expect them to, we’re operating with faulty assumptions. Some recent issues with my cat Wallace illustrate this point.

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Posted on Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Is Innovation Part of Your Organisation’s DNA?

by Tim Kastelle

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I’ve run across four firms that have been wildly successful in a terrible retail environment. All of them share a few characteristics that result from having innovation embedded in their DNA.

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Posted on Monday, 14 January 2013

Four Key Issues in Innovation Management

by Ralph-Christian

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Ralph Ohr & I met up at the end of last year and talked a lot about the state of innovation. These are the four issues that we identified as the ones that we think are the most important/interesting in the field right now.

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Posted on Sunday, 9 December 2012

A Seven Step Program for Innovating RIGHT NOW!

by Tim Kastelle

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Innovation is a powerful tool, and it’s in your hands. Here are some ideas for using it now.

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