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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.

Stupid Wins In The Game Of Innovation

We are a race of innovators – born to use our imagination to create not only solutions to our most pressing problems (polio vaccine) but to also create the fun in our lives (pet rocks). We only have to look as far as our kids so rediscover that fundamental draw to use our imagination to create somet

Stupid Wins In The Game Of Innovation

Slides From The Keynote At The Open Innovation Summit

Below are the slides I used during my keynote this morning at the Open Innovation Summit in Orlando.  The topic was “How to Win In The Creative Economy” and touched on: The transtion we are experiencing from the knowledge economy to the creative economy The challenges of innovation (corporate anti-b

Slides From The Keynote At The Open Innovation Summit

London Interviews – Future Predictions

A few weeks back, I was in London for press interviews and customer meetings. The press interviews were with The Daily Telegraph, The Inquirer, Computing, Reuters and a podcast with The Guardian.

London Interviews – Future Predictions

Yes, I am a Eagle Scout (Forbes video) . . .

During a previous interview session I did with Kym McNicholas at Forbes, I mentioned that we had to be done at a specific time as I had to take my Boy Scout Troop on a campout that weekend.

eagle scout badge

100 Best Small Business Podcast List ….

Killer Innovations Podcast has been selected as one of the 2009 Best Small Biz Podcast … Thanks for the recognition. Its is appreciated.

100 Best Small Business Podcast List ….

There Really is a Killer Question Card Deck ….

As a result of the twitter feed of killer questions, I’ve received a number of emails asking about the background on the killer questions. Since it seems like of a topic of interest, I thought I would give you some insight into how they came about …

There Really is a Killer Question Card Deck ….

Smart Touch Wall

The Smart Touch Wall resulted from a personal ask from Richard Edelman to create the technology for the lobby of Edelman’s new headquarters at 250 Hudson St, New York.

Smart Touch Wall

Killer Question #38

Killer Question #38: What makes my product hard to use? Have you ever wondered what life was like before battery powered power tools? Killer Question #38: What makes my product hard to use?

Killer Question #38

Ingenuity

Ingenuity is the key ingredient to creating innovation. Ingenuity is the smallest element of innovation … the spark that starts it off. Innovation is the outcome of applying an individuals ingenuity.

Ingenuity

Idea notebooks

A few weeks back, I went to the San Jose Tech Museum to check out a visiting exhibit on Leonardo De Vinci. One part the exhibit that really hit home was his passion for documenting his ideas and insights in an extensive set of notebooks.

Idea notebooks