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Phil McKinney

Phil McKinney is an innovator, podcaster, author, and speaker. He is the retired CTO of HP. Phil's book, Beyond The Obvious, shares his expertise and lessons learned on innovation and creativity.

Start-up Innovation

Download KI_20060204.mp3 Dateline: Sunnyvale, CA Segment 1: Start-up Innovation Phases of a new start-up build around an innovation – Idea Germination – Trigger Event – Decision to start a business – Finding a mentor – Finding a customer – Finding a money – Delivering the first product – Hire staff – Fast growth – Financial crisis

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Interesting article from Fast Company … Play More A friend of mine is a corporate attorney who is married with 3 kids. About two years ago he recognized that his work was putting a tremendous amount of stress on his family and marriage. He (and his wife) didn’t like who he was becoming. And they […]

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Management Model Innovation

Download KI_20060122.mp3 Dateline: Cupertino, CA Segment 1: Management Model Innovation – Level 0 – Technology Innovation – Level 1 – Product/Service Innovation – Level 2 – Business Model Innovation – Level 3 – Management Model Innovation Examples: GE, P&G, Toyota, Google For more information, visit www.woodsideinstitute.org Segment 2: Killer Questions

2008 CES Innovations

Download KI_20060108.mp3 Dateline: Cupertino, CA Segment 1: Consumer Electronics Show Innovations – The term “innovation” was everywhere – Bad Messaging – “Me To” Innovations – “So What” Innovations – Design has a growing importance – Un-anticpated Innovations Segment 2: Killer Question of the Week

Link to Booz Allen Report

A number of you have either emailed or Skyp’d me for more info on the Booz Allen report titled: Money Isn’t Everything – Lavish R&D Budgets Don’t Guarantee Performance As I mentioned in this weeks podcast, the one correlation that the report does uncover is that R&D spend (as a ratio to sales) does

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Outcome Driven Innovation and Innovation Budgets

Download KI_20060101.mp3 Dateline: Washington D.C. Segment 1: Outcome Based Innovation (based on Anthony Ulwich’s book What Customers Want … see info at bottom …) – Identify “jobs” being performed – Identify customer metrics (how they measure satisfaction) – Have customer identify importance – Have customer identify satisfaction (with current solutions) – If “low”

da Vinci Method and Outcome Based Innovation

Download KI_20051218.mp3 Dateline: Washington D.C. Segment 1: da Vinci Method Segment 2: Outcome Based Innovation Segment 3: Killer Question of the Week

Productivity from Innovation and Innovation Education

Download KI_20051213.mp3 Dateline: New York City Segment 1: Productivity from Innovation and Innovation Education Segment 2: (none for this show) Segment 3: Killer Question of the Week

Innovation Rules and Virtual Anthropology

Download KI_20051205.mp3 Dateline: Cupertino, CA Segment 1: Innovation Rules 1. The same problem & solutions occur again & again 2. Strongest innovations identify & eliminate conflicts (problems/needs) 3. Technology trends are predictable 4. Complexity leads to failure in the market Segment 2: Virtual Anthropology – flickr – handbags – http:

Creating a Pipeline of Innovation and Tryvertising

Download KI_20051123.mp3 Dateline: Washington D.C. Segment 1: Creating a Pipeline of Innovation Ideas Segment 2: Weak Signal – Tryvertising Segment 3: Killer Question of the Week

Creating a Pipeline of Innovation and Tryvertising