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The CD Project …
A common request I get is to create something that listeners of the podcast can share with their managers and team members. Something that shares the foundational “what” and the “how” of innovation without listening to the +60 hours of audio that now makes-up the podcast catalog. For the last numbe
Job Of The Future: Creativity Guru
As we move from the information/knowledge economy to the creative economy, a new category of jobs will need to be created. These new jobs will be critical to helping companies make the transition from the “old world” to the “new”. One such job of the future – creativity guru. For those of us who wa
Reverse Mentoring: Things I learned from Phil
I’ve invited my summer interns to write-up their thoughts/opinions/lessons learned from the summer experiment in reverse mentoring. Below is the first post from Curtis … Things I learned from Phil . . . . It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, always produce. Complete the assignments that you are g
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
What I Did For Thanksgiving . . . .
For Thanksgiving, we went to San Diego to visit family. While there, we spent a day working in the fire area helping families who were impacted during the recent wild fires. We met up with the same team (Camp Hope) I worked with during Katrina (photo, podcast). It was yet another humbling experience
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 […]
BusinessWeek Article …. Innovation Culture
In this weeks issue of BusinessWeek’s In Innovation special report, there is an article on my “day job” and innovation culture. The photo above appears in the article and is of Rahul Sood, Founder of Voodoo, and myself …. The article gives a good overview of how large corporation’s can use start-up’
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
Creative Economy – How Should It Be Defined?
There is a ongoing battle in the “creativity” community on how best to define the creative economy. Why is this so important? To prove that something exists, in this case an emerging economy, you must be able to measure it. There are two fundamental camps: The creative economy is defined by companie
