John Tropea made an interesting comment on twitter about one of my recent posts – asking how the idea of exaptation might be used to get our innovative ideas to spread through the network economy. This is a superb question, and well worth investigating (John’s blog is fantastic, by the way, and you should check […]
We’ve been following a theme on the blog lately on business models and innovation. Last week I wrote about the connection between business model innovation and strategy and Tim wrote a really nice case study of business model innovation in the electric car industry. In this post, I’ll discuss some key ideas about business models […]
The first Archaeopteryx fossil was found in 1861, and it now resides in the Natural History Museum in London. It was an important find – two years after the publication of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Archaeopteryx was the rarest of fossils, and one that was quite useful for Darwin’s theory – an […]
Which of these two things is better designed? The Robert Graves Tea Kettle by Alessi? Or the little plastic thing that goes in the pizza box to keep the cheese from sticking to the box? And which of the two is more innovative? Does the Graves tea kettle heat water more effectively than other tea […]
Tim does a really nice talk on the invention of the computer and he has posted the slides on this blog. While he uses the story to discuss the difference between innovation and invention, I think there are a lot of other really interesting lessons here. Firstly, I’d like to add to Tim’s story by […]
Take a look at David Beckham’s goal against Greece that sent England to the 2002 World Cup Finals: If you ask famous athletes how they do things like that, they find it difficult to explain. How can you make a ball dip a meter while curving two? Who knows? Actually, there are some researchers that […]
I think that a lot of time when we talk about the importance of failure in innovation, people think about big, major failures like the Ford Edsel and the Apple Newton. But the whole point of driving innovation through experimenting is to figure out ideas that won’t work early. We want to find our failures […]
