Innovation
These essays on innovation cover a wide range of topics, from the basics of innovation to detailed case studies and examples. Each essay is designed to give readers an understanding of the principles that drive innovation while providing practical advice on creating successful innovations. Through these essays, I aim to help readers better understand the process of innovation and use it more effectively in their own lives.
A Life Changing Innovation From a Kid
Every two years,a life changing innovation in design are honored at the Index: Awards, the biggest of its kind in the world. FreshPaper, a simple piece of paper designed to extend the shelf life of fresh foods, was among the 2013 winners announced August 29, in Elsinore, Denmark. Kavita Shukla, age
How Does Your Brain Work on Innovation?
Most of us are familiar with the image of a light bulb signifying the idea that emerges from our brain. One moment the light is off, the next it is on and a “eureka” moment has occurred. Likewise, many of us have also experienced “eureka” moments when we least expect them – in the shower, […]
Game Changing Inventions from our Kids
Our collective future is based on our kids being ready to compete in the creative economy. Looking for some inspiration? Here are a few game-changing inventions that all started with kids asking themselves “why not“. Jake Evill, of the United Kingdom, at twenty-one years old has invented a new lig
Test Your New Business Ideas Guerrilla Style
How do you know that your new business idea is the one that will be a big success? This video shares the how including a short clip of a guerrilla approach to test ideas we did recently. Gorilla Approach To Test Your Ideas This video shares how and why to use the gorilla approach. It […]
Innovation Leadership Is Not For The Faint Of Heart
When considering innovation in your business or creative life, it’s easy to get so caught up in the fuzzy, catch-phrase-laden mentality that you forget the nuts and bolts of bringing true change to your work. But innovation leadership is more than just feel-good slogans and extra meetings with focus
Predicting The Future With A Vision Video
Predicting the future is not for the faint of heart. It can be tricky to know what and when something is going to happen. It’s not enough to just have an opinion of what the future holds but you have to have a way to show the future so others can see and respond to […]
How protocol, bureaucracy and turf wars block innovation
Innovation, if it includes a change in the status quo, is commonly perceived as a threat. People and organizations resist change and can call on their corporate antibodies to both slow and block innovation. All that is further compounded by turf considerations that tend to align supporters and detra
Beyond The Obvious Is Now Available In Simplified Chinese [创客学:苹果公司也在偷师的创新课]
During my recent trip to China I discovered that the simplified Chinese translation of my book, Beyond The Obvious (创客学:苹果公司也在偷师的创新课), has been released and on-sale. I reached out to the publisher while I was in China and there was a mad scramble to setup a handful of press interviews while I was t
Flow: Filling the Well of Personal Creativity
We’ve all experienced that magic state of being completely immersed in something or being blissfully “in the zone”. Everything clicks and you are running on all cylinders. Time seems to fade away, you forget to eat, and your focus is razor-sharp. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls this feeli
Great Innovations From Asking the Right Questions
Innovation is not about solving just any problem, but about knowing which problems to solve. We discover the right problem by asking the right questions. There are a number of inflection points in history in which a brilliant person took a popularly held assumption — even one that is totally counte
