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Career Advice For The Creative/Innovation Economy
Download KI_20070422.mp3 Segment 1: Career advice for the creative/innovation economy * Find mentors: Look for different mentor/apprenticeships over your career to gain different skills/perspecive. * Find and feed your passion: With passion, your sucess is all but gaurenteed * Change jobs/change industries: Don’t get stuck in
What’s wrong with “old think” innovation approaches?
So, what is wrong with the traditional approaches that most companies use to generate ideas/innovations? Plenty!! I’ve seen it, experienced it and in my past, I probably inflicted it on others. There are the four (4) tell-tale symptoms that the approach being used is “old think”. How many of the
The Right To Argue With Your Boss
Do you have the right to question or even argue with your boss? In most cases, people would say ‘are you kidding!!’. Without the right to argue, how can management even hope to avoid the potholes and cliffs that we all face. In the case of innovation, the right to argue is paramount to creating [
What is it that I do??
Over the last few years, I’ve recieved a number of emails asking for a “behind the scene” look into what it is I do and how it relates to innovation. Today there was an article published at thestreet.com based on an interview I gave a few weeks back that gives you a peak behind […]
Managing The Innovation Funnel
Download KI_20070325.mp3 To be successful in the innovation game, you must master the process of filling and managing the innovation funnel. The funnel is the mechanism whereby you will have a continuous flow of ideas that will sustain the organization over an extended period of time. As soon
Shock and Awe!!
A week or so ago I started getting emails and IM’s with a link to an Engadget posting from friends, family, readers to this blog and listeners to my podcast. I knew something was up just by the sheer volume of emails with the same identical URL. Much to my surprise when I […]
Measuring Innovation Impact
Download KI_20070318.mp3 Segment 1: Measuring Innovation Impact R&D Spend % across the innovation portfolio (core products, adjacent and new) * Core = average gross margin * Adjacent = some improvement in gross margin (20 – 25%) * New = significant improvement in gross margin (>50%) R&D spend between ‘people’ and ‘programs’
How do you know if your boss gets innovation?
Management Support of Innovation My last posting on “permission based innovation” generated a lot of comments and email …. some challenging me on the fact that management still needs to “get it”. So, how do you know if your management team “gets it” with regards to innovation? Some time ago, I came
Trend Safari – Traveling the world in search of emerging trends
Download KI_20070217.mp3 Over the years, I've used my travel around the world to be an inspiration for new ideas. As I look back, there are a few tricks and processes I've developed to capture and share the results of a trend safari. Segment 1:
Improv Innovation – Using improv comedy tools/tricks to innovate
Download KI_20070128.mp3 In my opinion, improv comedy is the purest form of real-time creativity. The ability to be given a challenge, respond with humor and fun, and to totally entertain the audience is not that different from being tasked to create the next great product or service. How
