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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?
Using Creativity To Create A Killer Career – Using questions to think differently about your career
Download KI_20090301.mp3 I’m amazed at the breadth of human ingenuity to solve social, economic, political and even technical challenges. The one area where I don’t see ingenuity applied nearly as much is when it comes to planning our careers and preparing future job prospects. Can you
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.
Telling Your Idea Story – Create a convincing story so that others will sacrifice to make your idea successful
Download KI_20090208.mp3 How do you create a convincing message so that others will sacrifice to make your idea successful? Its all about storytelling. If you follow the same structure used by movie industry and by book authors, you can create a story that will attract others to your
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.
Killer Question #7
When things get tough, the common reaction is to scale back and standardize the processes. The objective is to take costs out of the business. What would happened if you went the opposite direction? Rather than standardize, why not customize?
How To Estimate The Value Of An Idea
Download KI_20090119.mp3 So you have a great idea. How big is it? What is the value of the idea to the organization? Most people get hung up trying to come up with the exact answer. In most cases, you won’t find the perfect answer. Especially if you
What are the unshakable beliefs in my industry about what customers want? What if the opposite where true?
Its easy when we are being successful to stick our heads in the sand and believe our own PR. We can easily brush off minor threats with the argument that the customer wouldn’t go for whatever was being offered. We hold on to the belief that we know best what trade-offs they are not willing to make.
Woman and technology … part 2
When things go wrong with technology (like that never happens!), men and woman react differently.
What devices are in my bag?
A few years ago, someone started the rumor that if you ask me what devices are in my bag, I will pull them out and show them to you. Even if they are prototypes. This is mostly true. I am sometimes barred from showing some prototypes … but if I can, I will show […]
