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“Create the Niche You Will Occupy”
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In a nice post inspired from the classic TED talk from Malcolm Gladwell, Harry Connolly’s talks about the importance of experimenting in a guest post on Charlie Stross’ blog: Another important point from the video is that consumers do not always know what they want. This isn’t exactly a revelation to readers, who are always […]
How to Innovate Ancient Technologies
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People were using charcoal for art about 30,000 years ago. And we’ve been consciously manufacturing charcoal for at least 5000 years. Because charcoal burns hot and clean, it was the primary fuel source for making iron for quite a while, before it made its recent shift to cooking steaks on barbeques. Most of our charcoal […]
The Business Model for Doing Something You Love
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How do you build a business model for doing something that you love? It’s a difficult question. In most cases, it means that you need to build some sort of craft-based business model, which can be challenging. But if you do it right, you can create smarter conversations – a recent idea from Hugh MacLeod. […]
Innovate Through Appreciation
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One of the critical parts of the innovation process is getting our great ideas to spread. Diffusion is often the stumbling block for innovative new ideas. There is a section towards the end of Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky that provides some interesting insights into how to attack this problem. Belsky describes a storytelling […]
Innovation Stories: Internet Research, Wooden Engines & The Gap
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Three stories that caught my eye today: First up, Stowe Boyd found this quote about competing with internet research firms Gartner and Forrester: In our view, firms wishing to disrupt the Gartner and Forrester models must have two particular attributes. First, they need a significant differentiator. It can be in specialization, the business model, service […]
Innovation and Human Capabilities
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Guest Post: by Ralph-Christian Ohr John Steen wrote a series of posts on why experts and crowds usually miss disruptive innovation and how to use networks to tap expertise and knowledge. I’d like to expand these thoughts a bit more towards the question: what’s the role of human capabilities in innovation? For elaboration, I’m going […]
Breaking the Rules of Learning
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Yesterday I went to a seminar from Bill Eggers, hosted by Deloitte. Bill is a specialist in thinking about governmental reform and the digital economy, but most of his messages about innovation apply to all organizations. It’s been a long time since I took three pages of notes in a seminar so I might do […]
Connections Between People Drive Innovation
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Consider Jared Diamond’s discussion of the lost technology of Tasmania: Tasmania is just an island of modest size, but it was the most extreme outpost of the most extreme continent, and it illuminates a big issue in the evolution of all human societies. Tasmania lies 130 miles southeast of Australia. When it was first visited […]
McLaren Wins the Innovation Race
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One of the problems that makes innovation necessary is this: no matter how strong your current position is, if you don’t innovate, your business will eventually decline. And it might not be eventually – it might happen sooner. Why? The Think Tank blog quotes Gary Hamel to explain: “Out there in some garage is an […]
Low Tech Networks
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Everything is different now that we’re all knowledge workers, right? The digital world has changed everything… hive mind… singularity… chaos! change! panic! PANIC! Maybe. Maybe not. Yesterday I talked about the risks and rewards of low-tech innovation – if we re-think the most basic parts of our value networks, the parts that we take for […]
