Reverse Mentoring
Hanging out with staff and interns that are younger than your own children is a real eye-opener. You quickly realize that you are so far out of the loop – you can’t even see the loop. The challenge is how to you get yourself back into the loop without looking like a creepy old guy […]
Prioritizing Your Ideas
Download KI_20070617.mp3 Segment 1: Prioritizing Your Ideas 1. - Rank your ideas by scoring them against the 5 Key Question 2. - Assign an estiamte of when the idea will become a product * 3 timeline buckets (example: 1-2 yrs, 3-5 yrs, +5 yrs) * If on the border, round
Seeing The Big Picture To Innovate
Download KI_20070528.mp3 The ability to keep perspective while continuously innovating is a challenge. We tend to get ourselves hyper focused and risk overlooking really great ideas. So who do keep the big picture perspective while still staying focused to create innovations that have impact? Segment 1: Seeing The
20 Years In To The Future
During my recent trip to Shanghai, I gave a press conference where I presented a vision and timeline of major shifts occurring over the next 20 years. For those of you who are podcast listeners, you know that I’m not a big believer of random long range forcasting. In this case, we’ve been careful
Here Are The 7 Reasons Why Innovations Fail
Download KI_20070430.mp3 Segment 1: Innovation Failure What are the reasons that innovation efforts fail? 1. Innovation for awards and recognition 2. Meaningless innovation 3. Non-user driven innovation 4. Innovation as long as its green 5. Innovation by committee 6. Lightspeed innovation 7. Copycat innovations Segment 2: Killer
Profile In The San Jose Mercury News
As I mentioned in last weeks podcast, I was recently interviewed for a profile that was to appear in a local paper. Well — it was released today. For those of you interested, you can click on the link below to read the article. For some reason, the Q&A section that appeard in the […]
Career Advice For The Creative/Innovation Economy
Download KI_20070422.mp3 Segment 1: Career advice for the creative/innovation economy * Find mentors: Look for different mentor/apprenticeships over your career to gain different skills/perspecive. * Find and feed your passion: With passion, your sucess is all but gaurenteed * Change jobs/change industries: Don’t get stuck in
What’s wrong with “old think” innovation approaches?
So, what is wrong with the traditional approaches that most companies use to generate ideas/innovations? Plenty!! I’ve seen it, experienced it and in my past, I probably inflicted it on others. There are the four (4) tell-tale symptoms that the approach being used is “old think”. How many of the
The Right To Argue With Your Boss
Do you have the right to question or even argue with your boss? In most cases, people would say ‘are you kidding!!’. Without the right to argue, how can management even hope to avoid the potholes and cliffs that we all face. In the case of innovation, the right to argue is paramount to creating [
What is it that I do??
Over the last few years, I’ve recieved a number of emails asking for a “behind the scene” look into what it is I do and how it relates to innovation. Today there was an article published at thestreet.com based on an interview I gave a few weeks back that gives you a peak behind […]
