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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.

What Is An Innovation Agency?

Let us explore what an innovation agency is and how it can help bring you more success in the challenging innovation process. Why Hire An Innovation Agency? Innovation Agency is a term created to distinguish agencies that specialize in innovation from the agencies such as advertising, design, marketing, and PR

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(Preparing For) A Failure of Imagination

With organizational failures, the imagination is often at fault. We can’t imagine things going wrong, so we don’t plan for them. Organizations can’t imagine that their employees would do something unethical, so they don’t have policies in place to prevent it. Owners can’t imagine that a natural disa

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Rob Enderle of Enderle Group on Metaverse and Digital Twins

Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group joins us to discuss Digital Twins, the Metaverse, and the hybrid work model innovations. Metaverse and Digital Twins Recently, Rob has been engaging in the Metaverse and Digital Twin technology. Everybody is trying to figure out the use of the Metaverse. One interesting use

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The Innovation Skills and Attributes I Look For When Hiring Innovators

Do you think of life as a game? It’s more than just an analogy. Life really is a game, and there are rules. Rules that can help us survive and thrive. This article will show you how to win this one-in-a-million chance at life by knowing how to make others aware of your innovation skills […]

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Stephen Key of InventRightTV on Licensing Inventions

Stephen Key joins us to discuss how inventors can successfully license inventions— their most valued ideas. Licensing Inventions Stephen has an extensive following on YouTube, where he coaches, mentors, and advises inventors. His channel focuses on those who have ideas but don’t want to start a business. Creative people

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Thinking Creatively in a World of Normality

The world is a place of normality. It’s the place where we go to school, work, and come home to our families. We see the same people every day and do the same things. We are used to doing things in a certain way and we don’t question it. But what if we were to […]

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Greg Shepard with BOSS Capital Partners on Autism, Neurodiversity and Entrepreneurship

Greg Shepard of BOSS Capital Partners joins us to discuss autism, neurodiversity, and entrepreneurship. The School System and Learning Styles Growing up, Greg struggled with learning in school and communicating. He had a different style of learning that schools did not teach. He scored very high in some areas but

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Are You Playing The Innovation Long Game? An HP Story.

It’s a question that all businesses must ask themselves at some point: are we playing the innovation long game or have we settled for the quarterly short-term metric of innovation success? What does it take to stay engaged in an era when trend shifts happen with dizzying speed, and new technologies

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Rob Tiffany of Digital Insights on Digital Twins

Rob Tiffany joins us to discuss innovations around digital twins and where the technology is making an impact. Digital Twins Rob is an industry analyst working around wireless communications, IoT, digital twins, etc. Digital twins are digital representations of a physical object. These representations arose with NASA when they used

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Why Do People Keep Insisting On Dissenting From Me?

I just don’t understand why people keep insisting on dissenting from me. It’s really quite frustrating and annoying. But I suppose I’ll just have to deal with it because it’s not like I’m ever wrong about anything. 🤔 😉 Dissenting is expressing disagreement with or opposing an opinion, view, or att

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