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Digital Iron Curtains: When Tech Walls Create Better Innovations

In today's tech war, governments believe walls and restrictions maintain technological supremacy. History has shown that innovation thrives under constraints and restrictions accelerate technological progress.

Digital Iron Curtains: When Tech Walls Create Better Innovations

Constraint Based Innovation

One of the keys I’ve found to successful execution is constraint based innovation. It is exactly what it sounds like. When I’m in the execution phase of the innovation process and assigning teams to various ideas, I’ll ask them, “How long will it take for you to create the product?” Whatever answer

Constraint Based Innovation

The Wine Bottle: Ripe for Packaging Innovation S14 Ep38

Download The_Wine_Bottle_Ripe_for_Packaging_Innovation_S14_Ep38.mp3 When delivery fails, it costs in more ways than one.  In today’s show, I talk with Santiago Navarro, founder and CEO of Garçon Wines.  Santiago shares his unique solution to a constraint that caused major problems for his

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The ultimate of constraint based innovation – burn the boats!

Seth Godin recently made a post on his blog about putting yourself into an impossible position and then setting back and watching incredibly things happen. I’m a big believer of constraint based innovation where leaders purposefully restrict some key resource(s) (people, money, time, etc) and then f

The ultimate of constraint based innovation – burn the boats!