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Presentation: An Introduction to the Killer Innovation Approach
Below are the slides from a presentation I gave last week introducing IT executives to the Killer Innovation Approach. In addition to the slides, I ran the attendee’s through a “sample” workshop over dinner where they were provided a task/objective, they had to meet an idea quota, rank their ideas a
Unintended Uses of Innovations
Have you ever noticed that many innovations end up being used in ways never contemplated by the inventors? Unintended uses are the first step to finding a pivot that creates opportunities. Some interesting examples include: Invention Original Use Actual Primary Use Telephone Broadcast audio content
How To Segment Your Customer For Better Innovation
How do you look at your customers? Do you put a face to them? Do you make them real so that the team creating the innovations has a clear target? The one thing that gets me going is when teams start talking about customers in terms that are meaningless to innovators. The one that […]
Reverse Mentoring – The Summer Intern Experiment
Well, the summer is over and school has restarted for my summer interns. If you are a regular reader of the blog, you read about my summer intern experiment where I hosted my summer interns at my California house. It’s what I called “reverse mentoring”. My selfish objective was to immerse myself
The emerging creative economy …
I’m a big believer that we are on cusp of a change from the information economy to the creative economy. We’ve been through these kinds of changes before with the shift from agriculture to industrial to information and now to the emerging creative economy. Why do I believe that this change is coming
Finding and Keeping Innovation Champions
Download KI_20071014.mp3 Segment 1: Finding and Keeping Innovation Champions What are innovation champions? * Passionate about an idea * Will do almost anything to see the idea become a reality Why are they iimportant? * Give me a person with passion and I can build a team that will succeed * An
Overcoming The Mid-project Blues and a new creativity exercise
Download KI_20070916.mp3 Segment 1: Overcoming the Mid-Project Blues * Project go through three phases * Start-up Enthusiasm * Mid-Project Blues * End-of-Project Euphoria (blog entry on recent launch) * How do you overcome? * Remind yourself why you started the project (e.g. go back to you notebooks and re-live the start) * Take break
One Dimensional Innovations
Download KI_20070916.mp3 Segment 1: One Dimensional Innovations – Getting out of the innovation rut * "One Dimensional Innovations" are when you are stuck in a rut and focusing your innovation efforts in the same area as your competitors * Why is it so hard? * People tend to focus the
The launch of an innovation …
Many of you have probably noticed that I’ve been inconsistent on postings to the blog and the release of podcasts. There has been a good reason …. On 5 September, we released an innovation that we’ve been working on for 18 months .. 18 all consuming months since I was also doing my normal “day […]
The Stress Of Innovation
As an innovation program gets ready to launch an idea into the market, the stress level within the team rises. Stress is normal. We start questioning the execution, the love of the idea … Is still the best idea we could have executed? Will the market respond to our idea? Have we done our […]
