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.
Innovation Execution – Translating Ideas Into Real Products
Download KI_20080413.mp3 As I've said a thousand time, ideas without execution are a hobby and true innovators are not in the hobby business. True competitive advantage comes from those that can take an idea and turn it into a real innovation that has impact. Innovation execution
Transformational Innovations
The ultimate objective of any innovation is to transform business and transform lives. How do you know if your innovation is of that transformational kind? Here are my definitions that I use for the different stages/types of business: If you charge for undifferentiated stuff, then you are in the c
Setting The Right Innovation Focus
If you are a regular reader of the blog and/or listener of the podcast, your familiar with the basic foundation of the Killer Innovations approach is to define the area of focus for an innovation and then ask the “right question” (If you are not, go have a listen). I’ve covered the topic of […]
Plan For Change Because It Is Coming
Change is inevitable but it doesn’t always have to be a surprise. When we become comfortable in our position (industry structure, market leadership, etc), we open the door for change to catch us by surprise. How do you keep your eye’s open? By scanning the areas of possible change …. and planning fo
Presentation: An Introduction to the Killer Innovation Approach
Below are the slides from a presentation I gave last week introducing IT executives to the Killer Innovation Approach. In addition to the slides, I ran the attendee’s through a “sample” workshop over dinner where they were provided a task/objective, they had to meet an idea quota, rank their ideas a
Unintended Uses of Innovations
Have you ever noticed that many innovations end up being used in ways never contemplated by the inventors? Unintended uses are the first step to finding a pivot that creates opportunities. Some interesting examples include: Invention Original Use Actual Primary Use Telephone Broadcast audio content
The launch of an innovation …
Many of you have probably noticed that I’ve been inconsistent on postings to the blog and the release of podcasts. There has been a good reason …. On 5 September, we released an innovation that we’ve been working on for 18 months .. 18 all consuming months since I was also doing my normal “day […]
The Stress Of Innovation
As an innovation program gets ready to launch an idea into the market, the stress level within the team rises. Stress is normal. We start questioning the execution, the love of the idea … Is still the best idea we could have executed? Will the market respond to our idea? Have we done our […]
What is it that I do??
Over the last few years, I’ve recieved a number of emails asking for a “behind the scene” look into what it is I do and how it relates to innovation. Today there was an article published at thestreet.com based on an interview I gave a few weeks back that gives you a peak behind […]
How do you know if your boss gets innovation?
Management Support of Innovation My last posting on “permission based innovation” generated a lot of comments and email …. some challenging me on the fact that management still needs to “get it”. So, how do you know if your management team “gets it” with regards to innovation? Some time ago, I came
