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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.

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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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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

Booz Allen report

Moleskin Notebook

The history/story of the Moleskin notebooks is shipped with every notebook ….. “This long-standing tradition was continued by writer-traveller Bruce Chatwin who used to buy his moleskines at an old Paris stationery shop in Rue de l’Ancienne Comedie where he would always stock up before embarking on

Moleskine Notebook

Biomimicry … links

In the KI Community site, rcuestas posted a link to the Biomimicry site so that readers can find more information …. www.biomimicry.net To see the entire post visit the the KI Community site.

Biomimicry

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

Speech: The Changing Experience Requirements

Here is another of the recent speeches (still trying to catch-up) ….. This is one I gave at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention last year. The core of the message is on the needs of the industry to look beyond just the “end user experience” and look towards: – the experience of

The Changing Experience Requirements

Speech: Capitalize on the digital entertainment revolution

I know it’s been some since I last posted recent speeches … so here is one that I delivered to the International Association of Radio and Television Engineers conference on October 21, 2004. I’ve attached both the presentation material and the MP3 recording of the speech. Sorry — HP requires that I

Capitalize on the digital entertainment revolution

A Different Perspective

All of our lives, we’ve been conditioned to think in terms of opposites: – Up or down – Big or small – Fast or slow – Good or bad This simplistic way of dividing everything into equal and opposite groupings restricts our ability to recognize complexities. Subtleties. Opportunities in the chaos. Not

A Different Perspective