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4 Steps To Getting The Market Timing Right For Your Innovation
Download KI_2012_11_Market_Timing_For_Your_Innovation.mp3 Some listeners to the show have confused “patience” with “timing”. When I say patience, I’m talking about the need for organizations to be willing to invest time, money and resources over an extended period of time to take an
Comptel Keynote: The Secrets to Innovation
Last Monday, I delivered the opening keynote to the Comptel 2012 show in San Francisco. The aim of the keynote was to share with the audience the secrets to innovation and how they could take advantage of them in their firms. Topics included: 5 Elements of Innovation (Innovation Attitude, Curiosity,
Strategic Storytelling
Download KI_2012_10_Strategic_Storytelling.mp3 Strategic Storytelling Why is it so hard to pitch your idea? We’ve been taught that the way to persuade people to our ideas is to use logic and facts. That approach ignores the role that emotion plays in our decision making. So
Can you teach yourself to avoid doing the obvious?
The problem that many business people, entrepreneurs, and would-be innovators suffer from is our inability to escape from our past. Simply put, we are all shaped by our past experiences, whether good or bad. We look at the end results of these experiences—“this idea worked”; “this idea failed”— and
On NBC Discussing How Companies Can Be More Innovative (video)
Yesterday, I recorded two segments for NBC’s Press:Here that will appear on Sunday, April 8th @ 9:00 AM in SFO and then later on cable in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Dallas, and Washington DC. In segment one, the questions focused on the stodginess of HP, the Palm a
5 Biggest Risks To Innovation
Download KI_2012_09_5_Biggest_Risks_To_Innovation.mp3 5 Biggest Risks To Innovation Its been my experience that large and small companies suffer from a common set of risks to their innovation efforts. These risks are independent of size, industry, longevity or geography. In thispodcast, I present what
Laws of Innovation
Download KI_2012_08_The_Laws_Of_Innovation.mp3 Laws of Innovation In the fall of 2011, I posted a blog entry titled The 7 Laws of Innovation. The objective was to identify the critical areas for innovation. The blog hit a spot and has turned out to be one
Why Was Steve Jobs Better At Driving Innovation at Apple?
In Silicon Valley, you can’t avoid the game of comparing every company to Apple. There is no avoiding the success Apple has experienced. So what made Apple so successful at establishing its innovation leadership and avoiding the traps and roadblocks other companies’ experience? Was it the fact that
Idea Management Is Key To Your Innovation Strategy
Download KI_2012_07_Idea_Management_Is_Key_To_Your_Innovation_Strategy.mp3 Idea Management Is Key To Your Innovation Strategy Ideas are the currency in the new creative economy therefore you need tools to manage this valuable asset as part of your overall innovation strategy. Idea management is often
Fuel for your design inspiration
Back in my architecture days, I would collect photo’s, rip pages out of architecture magazines and collect trinkets that provided the design inspiration I needed to complete the class projects. Since then, I’ve kept it up but moved from the physical to the virtual not to mention going from architec
