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Prioritizing Your Ideas

Phil McKinney
Phil McKinney
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Segment 1: Prioritizing Your Ideas

  1. - Rank your ideas by scoring them against the 5 Key Question
  2. - Assign an estiamte of when the idea will become a product
    • 3 timeline buckets (example: 1-2 yrs, 3-5 yrs, +5 yrs)
    • If on the border, round up!
  3. - Rank order the ideas based on their score (first step) within each timeline bucket
    • Forces you to spread the risk and rank ideas in each risk catagory (e.g. time)
    • Challenges you to ensure you have ideas in each bucket
  4. - Within each bucket, review to ensure:
    • Ideas are aligned with current and emerging trends
    • Ensure you will have a contribution to make (align with big "R" research)
  5. It’s all about execution

Segment 2: Killer Questions Of The Week

Can you execute against the best ideas?

  1. Do we have the structural attributes to be a shaper?
  2. Can we get our groups excitied?
  3. Will senior management support it?

Segment 3: Closing Thought

"It is common sense to take a method and try it.  If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.  But above all, try something."  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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