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Using Creativity To Create A Killer Career – Using questions to think differently about your career
Download KI_20090301.mp3 I’m amazed at the breadth of human ingenuity to solve social, economic, political and even technical challenges. The one area where I don’t see ingenuity applied nearly as much is when it comes to planning our careers and preparing future job prospects. Can you
Telling Your Idea Story – Create a convincing story so that others will sacrifice to make your idea successful
Download KI_20090208.mp3 How do you create a convincing message so that others will sacrifice to make your idea successful? Its all about storytelling. If you follow the same structure used by movie industry and by book authors, you can create a story that will attract others to your
How To Estimate The Value Of An Idea
Download KI_20090119.mp3 So you have a great idea. How big is it? What is the value of the idea to the organization? Most people get hung up trying to come up with the exact answer. In most cases, you won’t find the perfect answer. Especially if you
Improve Innovation Adoption By Communicating The Utility and Cost Benefit
Download KI_20090104.mp3 Why are some innovations more successful than others? Innovation success is never just about what is possible. It’s always about the choices customers and markets make from among what we can do. A key consideration when making the choices on which innovations to us is
Career Advice For Finding The Dream Innovation Job
Download KI_20081214.mp3 Finding that dream job in the innovation/creativity economy seems out of reach to many. It’s not. With the right level of commitment, energy and passion, you can land that job. What is your dream innovation job? Some may say that I have the dream
Proving The Value Of Innovation – How do you prove to management that innovation is important?
Download KI_20081207.mp3 Innovation is one of the key catalysts from the economic recovery – but only if senior management protects and support it, rather than cut it or even eliminate it. The reason senior managers consider cutting innovation programs is because of the impression that it delivers little to
When is the best time to innovate?
Download KI_20081026.mp3 When is the best time to innovate? * Innovation is 24×7 .. not something that you wait “until your in the mood” * Some of the drivers that cause people/organizations to all of sudden change their view of innovation * Competitors … they are constantly beating you to market
Adjacent Innovations – How to use adjacencies to create killer innovations
Download KI_20080923.mp3 How do you improve the success rate of your innovation programs? Everyone wants to focus on the “new/new” (new product/service with a new “go to market”). These kinds of project are high risk and hard to convince management that the project will be successful.