Past Shows
Fighting Innovation FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt)
Download KI_20070715.mp3 The idea haters will come up with ways to attack, challenge and discredit your idea. They play the Innovation FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) game. The innovation FUD they can throw, the more likely you will either give up or your boss will be scared off.
Prioritizing Your Ideas
Download KI_20070617.mp3 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
Seeing The Big Picture To Innovate
Download KI_20070528.mp3 The ability to keep perspective while continuously innovating is a challenge. We tend to get ourselves hyper focused and risk overlooking really great ideas. So who do keep the big picture perspective while still staying focused to create innovations that have impact? Segment 1: Seeing The
Here Are The 7 Reasons Why Innovations Fail
Download KI_20070430.mp3 Segment 1: Innovation Failure What are the reasons that innovation efforts fail? 1. Innovation for awards and recognition 2. Meaningless innovation 3. Non-user driven innovation 4. Innovation as long as its green 5. Innovation by committee 6. Lightspeed innovation 7. Copycat innovations Segment 2: Killer Question
Career Advice For The Creative/Innovation Economy
Download KI_20070422.mp3 Segment 1: Career advice for the creative/innovation economy * Find mentors: Look for different mentor/apprenticeships over your career to gain different skills/perspecive. * Find and feed your passion: With passion, your sucess is all but gaurenteed * Change jobs/change industries: Don’t get stuck in
Managing The Innovation Funnel
Download KI_20070325.mp3 To be successful in the innovation game, you must master the process of filling and managing the innovation funnel. The funnel is the mechanism whereby you will have a continuous flow of ideas that will sustain the organization over an extended period of time. As soon
Measuring Innovation Impact
Download KI_20070318.mp3 Segment 1: Measuring Innovation Impact R&D Spend % across the innovation portfolio (core products, adjacent and new) * Core = average gross margin * Adjacent = some improvement in gross margin (20 – 25%) * New = significant improvement in gross margin (>50%) R&D spend between ‘people’ and ‘programs’
Trend Safari – Traveling the world in search of emerging trends
Download KI_20070217.mp3 Over the years, I've used my travel around the world to be an inspiration for new ideas. As I look back, there are a few tricks and processes I've developed to capture and share the results of a trend safari. Segment 1:
Improv Innovation – Using improv comedy tools/tricks to innovate
Download KI_20070128.mp3 In my opinion, improv comedy is the purest form of real-time creativity. The ability to be given a challenge, respond with humor and fun, and to totally entertain the audience is not that different from being tasked to create the next great product or service. How
Making The Innovation Pitch
Download KI_20070114.mp3 Assuming that you have a great idea, the next most important step is to create the pitch so that others will join and support you. You cannot under estimate the importance of a well thought out and delivered innovation pitch if you are to create ideas
