Your Attitude Will Predict Your Innovation Success
When it comes to being part of a team that is tasked with creating killer innovations, there will be people coming out of the woodwork to criticize what you are doing. Your attitude can and will determine your innovation success. When I look back on innovation programs that I’ve been involved with
What is you confidence in innovation?
As some of you know, I’m currently on the Board for the Institute For Innovation and Information Productivity (IIIP). One of the projects we fund is the annual Innovation Confidence Index. Some background: IIIP commissioned the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde in
3 More Innovation Contests
The response to the original post of three interesting innovation contests was so positive, I’ve decided to start collecting contests and then posting them on the blog and on the twitter stream. I’m not sure why there is such a strong interest in contests. Maybe it has something to do with wanting t
Are You Part Of The Gray Wave? If Not Yet, You Will Be!
For the last few weeks, my wife has been back in Cincinnati helping my Grandmother who just turned 95 last week, still lives in the same house she raised her kids in and still cooks and cleans. Whenever I’m in Cincinnati for business, I have to stay at the house with her else she will kick my b** —
Video of “March On Wireless” Panel At The Churchill Club
On Tuesday, I joined the Churchill Club panel “March On Wireless”. The other participants included: Mike Bell VP, Ultra Mobility Group, Intel Hakan Eriksson, CTO, Ericsson Eric Klein, VP Technology Planning, Nokia The moderator for the panel was Don Clark, San Francisco Deputy Bureau Chief, Wall Str
What Will Be The Gadgets You Are Carrying in 2015?
Its that time of year again where SXSW posts the ideas for this years speaker/panel topics and asks for people to vote on the best proposal. The panel that have been proposed for me to talk to is: Can you predict what the future will look like in 5 to 10 years? Hacking the future requires the abili
3 Interesting Innovation Competitions
In a recent set of tweets, I commented on the growing number of innovation competitions. A number of you responded by sending me a list of competitions that you found interesting. If you have more competitions, post them as comments below or send them via email. Given the challenges that are faci
11 Simple Rules For Getting Along With Others
One of the challenges for creating a culture of innovation within an organization is the ability to get along with others. Innovation is about constant change which is uncomfortable and stressful. The result is that some individuals/groups will not respond and actually become quite negative (corpora
What Do (Should) I Sound Like?
Sounds like a silly question, doesn’t it? It’s not. We are bombarded with visual logo’s that help sell a brand – why not audio? In the last few years, audio logo’s (sound branding) have become THE thing to have in the brand arsenal with the objective of becoming the “hook” to get people to pay atten
Moderating The Plato@50 Innovations In Hardware Session at Computer History Museum (CHM)
I was recently requested by the Computer History Museum to moderate a session on Plato Hardware that was part of a two day event celebrating the 50 year aniversary of Plato. If you asking “what is Plato?” then you are missing a key … Around 1959 Chalmers Sherwin, a physicist at the University of Il
