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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.

1st Generation Innovation Tools & Weak Signals

Download philmckinney_2005_04_23.mp3 Segement 1 – 1st Generation of tools – Maintenance Tools – Crossover Tools – Utility Tools – Anticipatory Tools – Emphathic Tools Additional info: Link to creativity tools site Segement 2 – What you think you know … – You know what you know – You know what you don’t know – you don’

10 types of Innovation

Download philmckinney_2005_04_17.mp3 The April 17th Podcast is posted ……. Segment 1: 10 Types of Innovation – Business Model – Networks/Alliances – Enabling Processes – Core Processes – Product Performance – Product Systems – Service – Channel – Brand – Customer Experience Segement 2: Weak Signals Segment 3: Killer Question

Ranking Ideas & Customer Segments

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Killer Innovation Workshop – How to organize and run one

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Killer Questions – How does the quality of the question improve the quality of the idea?

Download philmckinney_2005_04_03.mp3 I just posted a new podcast titled “Killer Questions”. The basic precept is that the difference between “good ideas” and “great ideas” is in the quality of the questions being asked. Rather than asking the typical “brainstorming” questions such as: * Come up with a

Killer Questions – How does the quality of the question improve the quality of the idea?

Innovating to win in the ‘experience economy’

Download philmckinney_2005_03_26.mp3 Topic: How to innovate in order to win in the ‘experience economy’ Intro: Given the shift from ‘product focus’ to ‘experience focus’, how should a company think about the experience model (compared to overall value chain of – commodities, goods, services, experience). What comes after

Barriers to Innovation: The challenges or barriers that slow down or prevent the innovation process

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Speech: Future Trends Predicted in 1999

Someone recently sent me an video of a speech I gave to HP back in 1999. At the time, I was still with Teligent. As I listen to it, I’m amazed at the points I made. Had I listened to myself, I would have saved myself a lot of grief from the decline in my […] http://www.techtrend.com/audio/PCM_CD_Vo

Creating a vision video to tell your innovation story

Speech: The Journey of the Communication Industry

Attached is a speech I gave yesterday here in Madrid, Spain at the HP Software Universe. The material presents the history (lessons learned) and future trends for the communication (or what HP calls the Network and Service Provider – NSP) industry. I apologize for the poor recording quality …. my vo

Title: The Journey of the Communication Industry

Speech: The Power Of Ubquity

Attached is the MP3 for a speech I gave at ITU Korea in September. This is a 20 minute presentation on “Ubiquity” (theme for ITU this year …). This is the first presentation where HP begins to define the concept behind “federation” as it applied to the communication industry. The speech covers: – fe

The Power Of Ubiquity