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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
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