What is inconvenient about assembling your product?
When you think of “ease of assembly”, you normally don’t think of furniture. The first challenge in trying to figure out how to get the pieces home before you can event start. Then you have to decipher the instructions only to end up with something that doesn’t look like what you saw in the store an
Could I offer my product at 5 times the cost? FedEx Did!
Killer Question #17: Could I offer my product at 5 times the cost if it had greater feature/function?
Career Advice For Finding The Dream Innovation Job
Download KI_20081214.mp3 Finding that dream job in the innovation/creativity economy seems out of reach to many. It’s not. With the right level of commitment, energy and passion, you can land that job. What is your dream innovation job? Some may say that I have the dream
Proving The Value Of Innovation – How do you prove to management that innovation is important?
Download KI_20081207.mp3 Innovation is one of the key catalysts from the economic recovery – but only if senior management protects and support it, rather than cut it or even eliminate it. The reason senior managers consider cutting innovation programs is because of the impression that it delivers little to
What do people not like about the process of purchasing my product?
I’m a firm believer that better questions result in better ideas which lead to better innovations. So what are some of these killer questions? Over the years, I’ve collected a list of +75 questions that breakthrough the fog and help individuals and teams come up with killer ideas. One such question
What drives that fear that kills innovation?
Innovations are rejected for how they make make people feel long before they are reviewed on their merits. Why is it? Any new idea solicits a reaction from the people who are in decision path to approve and fund the development. The most common of emotions is fear. Fear is an interesting emotion.
When is the best time to innovate?
Download KI_20081026.mp3 When is the best time to innovate? * Innovation is 24×7 .. not something that you wait “until your in the mood” * Some of the drivers that cause people/organizations to all of sudden change their view of innovation * Competitors … they are constantly beating you to market
Small Businesses Will Be Key For The Economic Recovery
I’m an eternal optimist when it comes to the ability of people to create innovations – especially when we find ourselves at our greatest need. This drive to solve problems is a prime catalyst for entrepreneurs who are the ones behind small businesses. So are entrepreneurs better at innovating than
A different outlook on the economic downturn ….
With the recent economic downturn, the world is changing. More and more people are waking up to the new reality that they don’t understand the fundamentals of the new economy. What drives share price? What has changed? What makes up share price? Over the last twenty years, we have seen the decrea
Adjacent Innovations – How to use adjacencies to create killer innovations
Download KI_20080923.mp3 How do you improve the success rate of your innovation programs? Everyone wants to focus on the “new/new” (new product/service with a new “go to market”). These kinds of project are high risk and hard to convince management that the project will be successful.