In the news: HP’S ‘chief seer’
Over the years, there have been more interviews than I can count with a wide range of media. In some cases, the press give you a nickname such as the ‘chief seer’. The following is a collection of questions from an interview with the San Jose Mercury News. So here are the answers to the […]
Lessons Learned From Creating Innovation Teams
Download KI_20080713.mp3 Segment 1: Lessons Learned From Creating Innovation Teams 1. Changing the organizations culture * People will resist * Be prepared for corporate anti-bodies * Secure deep management support * Win by example * Find/train/support innovation evangelists 2. Define the metrics * Management needs proof of impact and success * Secure
Here Is The Metric That Can Predict Future Innovation Value
How do you measure the productivity of your innovation investment? The goal of any R&D organization is to conceive, develop and deliver product and/or services that customers will highly value and therefore be willing to pay a margin premium. The challenge is that the standard metric for innovation
Changing Your Perspective Skills
Download KI_20080629.mp3 Segment 1: How to change your perspective and look beyond the obvious * We all have filters * We don’t even realize we have filters (what is half of thirteen?) * We need our own internal flags to remind us to change our perspective Segment 2: Why is
Showing the future at the Disneyland Dream Home
How do you show what’s possible in the future? You could always write a report or create a PowerPoint. I’m a big believer in making the future seem real … How? By putting the users into the future today by creating an immersive experience. Let them see, touch, smell, taste the future today. A fe
The Interns Are Back!!
Yes … I’m doing the “experiment” again by having two of my summer interns stay with me. Based on last summers experience (Start, End, Intern Post), I decided to repeat it again … So far, we have one intern already in the house (Senior from Virginia Tech) with the second one arrive in the next […]
Observation Skills – Find the unspoken needs and wants of customers
Download KI_20080601.mp3 Using observation skills to find the unspoken needs and wants of customers. * Simple approach – Use feedback from customers (complaints, emails, etc) * Go deeper * Active Observation – get our of the chair/office and go to where the customers are * Active Reflection – after the observation, go back and
Creative Economy – Recorded LIVE!
Recorded live April 4, 2008 at the Business Alliance Bootcamp for Growing Companies and Entrepreneurs … Change is something we may try to stop but never will. From the agriculture economy to the manufacturing economy to the knowledge/information economy to that of the creative economy … where wealth creation is dependent
The CD Project …
A common request I get is to create something that listeners of the podcast can share with their managers and team members. Something that shares the foundational “what” and the “how” of innovation without listening to the +60 hours of audio that now makes-up the podcast catalog. For the last numbe
