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Here Are The 7 Reasons Why Innovations Fail

Phil McKinney
Phil McKinney
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Segment 1: Innovation Failure

What are the reasons that innovation efforts fail?

  1. Innovation for awards and recognition
  2. Meaningless innovation
  3. Non-user driven innovation
  4. Innovation as long as its green
  5. Innovation by committee
  6. Lightspeed innovation
  7. Copycat innovations

Segment 2: Killer Question Of The Week

  • What part of your service offering is under appreciated?  Why?
  • What part of your service offering is over appreciated?  Why?
  • What assumptions does your customer have about your service offering?  Why?
  • How many ideas can you come up with for each assumption if you wanted the opposite to be true?

Segment 3: Closing Thought

“It is high time that the idea of success be replaced by the idea of service”

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Phil McKinney is an innovator, podcaster, author, and speaker. He is the retired CTO of HP. Phil's book, Beyond The Obvious, shares his expertise and lessons learned on innovation and creativity.


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