Past Shows
Ranking Your Ideas – How to make sure you are working on the best ideas
Download KI_20080330.mp3 Success is not defined by the ability generate a large number of ideas from such processes as brainstorming. Success is to find the best ideas to focus your limited time and resources on. Through a process of ranking your ideas, you can find those ideas that
Can Better Questions Help You Discover Breakthrough Ideas?
Download KI_20080224.mp3 Can better questions be a catalyst that lead your and your teams to better ideas? Better ideas lead to breakthrough game-changing innovations. * The current method … simple questions get simple answers * Better questions get better ideas * Explore beyond the obvious – SCAMPER * Idea Quota * Characteristics of the best
Get Focused On Your Search For Breakthrough Innovations
Download KI_20080121.mp3 Segment 1: Having A Focus For Your Innovation Search Where to focus? * Moving into new competitive arenas * Expansion into new geographies * Improvement in industry structure * Innovation in value delivery system * Innovation in products and services * New or existing customers What customer segments that should be the
Current Methods Versus A Better Way To Innovate
Download KI_20071216.mp3 Segment 1: Why do current methods not work? * Most ideas are either incremental or unrealistic * Not confidence that there aren’t better ideas * Lack of follow-through form the list of ideas generated * Lack of executive and management support Segment 2: Is there a better way? Killer
Why is innovation important?
Download KI_20071112.mp3 Segment 1: Why is innovation important? This is part 1 of the re-created audio for the workshop slides. * Innovation acceleration * Technology Adoption * Innovation Reality * Innovation Gap * Innovation Delay * Innovation Impact * Executive View of Innovation * The Challenge of Innovation * The Value From Innovation Listen to this week
Finding and Keeping Innovation Champions
Download KI_20071014.mp3 Segment 1: Finding and Keeping Innovation Champions What are innovation champions? * Passionate about an idea * Will do almost anything to see the idea become a reality Why are they iimportant? * Give me a person with passion and I can build a team that will succeed * An
Overcoming The Mid-project Blues and a new creativity exercise
Download KI_20070916.mp3 Segment 1: Overcoming the Mid-Project Blues * Project go through three phases * Start-up Enthusiasm * Mid-Project Blues * End-of-Project Euphoria (blog entry on recent launch) * How do you overcome? * Remind yourself why you started the project (e.g. go back to you notebooks and re-live the start) * Take break
One Dimensional Innovations
Download KI_20070916.mp3 Segment 1: One Dimensional Innovations – Getting out of the innovation rut * "One Dimensional Innovations" are when you are stuck in a rut and focusing your innovation efforts in the same area as your competitors * Why is it so hard? * People tend to focus the
The New IQ – Innovation Quotient
Download KI_20070819.mp3 Do you have what it takes to be an innovator? Its NOT as simple of question to ask as many think. Experts have been attempting to develop tests to identify those individuals who can have significant innovation impact on an organization. What some are calling the
Finding Hidden Ideas By Using Five Hats
Download KI_20070729.mp3 Segment 1: Five Hats Method To Finding Hidden Ideas * Get out of the rut of how you look/evaluate/organize your ideas * Use the “Five Hats” approach * Alphabetical * Time * Location * Continuum * Category * Look for … * Non-obvious patterns * Strange combinations of ideas appearing next to each other Segment