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Don’t Let the Funnel Dry Up! Create an Innovation Challenge S14 Ep37
Download Dont_Let_the_Funnel_Dry_Up__Create_an_Innovation_Challenge_S14_Ep37.mp3 For innovation leaders, one of the hardest tasks is keeping the innovation funnel full. Yet, this is key to sustaining an innovation effort. What’s worked for me is to create an innovation challenge. Today’s
Idea Ranking
Once you’ve generated your ideas the next step is idea ranking to determine the potential to become innovations. So, how do you decide which ideas to work on? The typical innovation process leaves that decision to the senior-level managers, which seems like a logical choice. They’re senior, so they
A Change Maker in the Innovation Game S14 Ep36
Download A_Change_Maker_in_the_Innovation_Game_S14_Ep36.mp3 Big corporate innovation or startup getting off the ground, the challenges are similar. Amy Radin knows something of both. She went from direct marketing to becoming the first Chief Innovation Officer of Citibank. Now she advises startups. Her latest
Cell phones and the value chain
Your customers will change the way they use your products in ways you don’t currently anticipate. Do you remember when you got your first cell phone? I was living in Chicago when the city was selected for the first FCC trial of a cell-phone network in 1984, and I jumped at the chance to try […]
Six Practices of Successful Innovators
Innovations surround us. Things we enjoy and rely on everyday are thanks to successful innovators. These are people who had an idea and, through hard work and creativity, turned it into an amazing innovation. In what ways did these people think differently? What practices made them successful? Ma
A Future Look: Top Innovations, Teaching the Future, Tomorrow’s Healthcare S14 Ep35
Download A_Future_Look__Top_Innovations_Teaching_the_Future_Tomorrows_Healthcare_S14_Ep35.mp3 Today we delve into the future. I discuss topics in three areas: top innovations, teaching the future, and tomorrow’s healthcare. What innovations will have the most impact on our future? What can we do today
What Products Could I Create Out of Unused Assets
I’m an innovation guy. It may not say so on my business card, but that’s what I do. I encourage people, whether inside HP or in my meetings with customers around the world, to accept that they and their product are going to have to change. No matter
Gray wave and assisted living
So, how do you determine where you, as an individual or a business, will be in five years? You can’t say where exactly you’re going because you can’t predict what’s going to happen in the world. However, you can challenge yourself to change. In 2001 Apple’s sales figures were in decline. The company
Weak Signals
“Weak signals” are the equivalent of a canary in a coal mine. They are the unspoken needs and wants of your customers, and they are also the arrows pointing to what your customers are going to need and want in the future, even if they themselves don’t know it yet. If you pay attention to […]
My TEDx Talk: Do you have Impostor Syndrome … too?
What happens when you share the secret that has been feeding your impostor syndrome for more than 25 years? In this TEDx talk, I share a secret that I kept hidden for 25 years and the result of that secret being revealed on the front page of a national newspaper. Through this journey, I was forced [
