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Geoffrey Moore - Author of 'Crossing The Chasm'
Download KI_20090825_Interview_With_Geoffrey_Moore_Part_2.mp3 Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Mohr Davidow portfolio and established high-tech enterprises, most recently including Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Box, Aruba, Cognizant, and Rackspace. Moore’s life’s
Interview with Geoffrey Moore Part 1 of 2
Download KI_20090817_Interview_With_Geoffrey_Moore_Part_1.mp3 As part of the continuing set of interviews with innovation thought leaders, this weeks podcast is part 1 of a 2 part interview with Geoffrey Moore. Geoffrey is the author of Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game
Art Fong - Hewlett-Packard Employee #9
Download KI_20090802.mp3 Here is an interesting question. If Microwave Engineer Art Fong had decided to turn down Bill Hewlett's job offer back in 1945, how would the Hewlett Packard product line of microwave signal generators, bridges, and a long line of spectrum analyzers be different today?
Interview With Art Fong
Download KI_20090802.mp3 In next in the series of interviews with creators of killer innovations, Phil interviews Art Fong. Art was part of the team that invented microwave during WWII, helped develop FM radio and then joined HP when it was still a small start-up. He went on to
David Cochran - Inventor of the scientific pocket calculator
Download KI_20090620.mp3 What started out as a pet project of David Packard quickly turn into the HP-35 which was the epitome of a revolutionary mousetrap. Hand-held four function calculators were already on the market. Few could imagine a machine with scientific calculation capability that would fit in your
Interview with David Cochran on creating the HP35 calculator
Download KI_20090620.mp3 This is the 1st in a series of interviews of individuals and teams who have created what I would consider killer innovations. In this episode, I recorded an interview with David Cochran, the original Product Manager of the HP35 calculator. Per the entry in Wikipedia: The
Getting Comfortable Taking Innovation Risks – Getting over your fear of something going wrong
Download KI_20090419.mp3 So … you’ve come up with that killer idea. To move it forward, you need to take some risk. Risk that could include: investing your retirement fund, quitting your job and possibly including convincing others to invest their retirement fund and quitting their job to join
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 …
How To Uncover Emerging Trends And Weak Signals
Download KI_20090315.mp3 During a recent press interview, I was asked by a reporter for my view on what the next “hot” thing will be. A question that is becoming more common with each press interview given the current market conditions. I shared a few trends of personal interest
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.
