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Mindset for Doing New
The more work I do with innovation, the more I believe mindset is the most important thing. Here’s what I believe.. Continue reading →
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Curiosity Fuels Creativity
Creativity generates things that are novel and useful. Make them successful, and you’ve got innovation. There can be no innovation without creativity. Continue reading →
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A Race To The Top
We all want to increase sales. But to do do this, our products must offer a better value proposition – they must increase the goodness-to-cost ratio. And to do this we increase goodness and decrease...
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Innovation Eats Itself
We all want more innovation, though sometimes we’re not sure why. Turns out, the why is important.. Continue reading →
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Error Doesn’t Matter, Trial Does
If you want to learn, to really learn, experiment. But I’m not talking about elaborate experiments; I’m talking about crude ones. Not simple ones, crude ones. Continue reading →
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A Healthy Dissatisfaction With Success
They say job satisfaction is important for productivity and quality. The thinking goes something like this: A happy worker is a productive one, and a satisfied worker does good work. This may be true,...
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Wrestle Your Success To The Ground
Innovation, as a word, has become too big for its own good, and, as a word, is almost useless. Sure, it can be used to enable magical reinvention of business models and revolutionary products and...
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Acceleration Is King
Everything is about speed – speed through process reengineering, waste elimination, standardization, modularity, design reuse. All valid, but not all that powerful. Continue reading →
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Seeking Comfort in Discomfort
There’s a natural desire to create comfort because, well, it’s comfortable. The parents of comfort are sameness and familiarity. To be comfortable we naturally seek out familiarity, and since we’re...
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Disruptive Innovation: Moving at the Speed of People
More-with-less is our mantra for innovation. But these three simple words are dangerous because they push us almost exclusively toward efficiency. Continue reading →
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It Can’t Be Innovation If…
Companies strive for predictability, yet if it’s predictable, it cannot be innovation. We seek comfort in our work, but if it’s comfortable it can’t be innovation. Continue reading →
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Tracking Toward The Future
It’s difficult to do something for the first time. Whether it’s a new approach, a new technology, or a new campaign, the mass of the past pulls our behavior back toward itself. Continue reading →
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Decide To Tackle The Impossible
Doing the impossible doesn’t take a long time, starting does. More precisely, what takes a long time is getting ready to start. Getting ready is the gating item. So what’s in the way? Continue reading →
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Occam’s Razor For Innovation
There are many flavors of innovation – incremental, disruptive, and seven flavors in between. And there is lots of argument about the level of innovation – mine’s radical and yours isn’t; that’s just...
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The Ladder Of Your Own Making
There’s a natural hierarchy to work. Your job, if you choose to accept it is to climb the ladder of hierarchy rung-by-rung. Here’s how to go about it: Continue reading →
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Marketing’s Holy Grail – Emerging Customer Needs
The Holy Grail of marketing is to identify emerging customer needs before anyone else and satisfy them to create new markets. It has been a long and fruitless slog as emerging needs have proven...
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Prototypes Are The Best Way To Innovate
If you’re serious about innovation, you must learn, as second nature, to convert your ideas into prototypes. Funny thing about ideas is they’re never fully formed – they morph and twist as you talk...
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If It’s Not Different, It’s Not Innovation
Creative products are novel and useful; Innovative products are novel, useful, and successful. Beforehand, it’s impossible to know if something will be successful, but if it’s useful there’s a chance...
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What’s Your Innovation Intention?
If you want to run a brainstorming session to generate a long list of ideas, I’m out. Brainstorming takes the edge off, rounds off the interesting corners and rubs off any texture. If you want me to go...
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Constructive Conflict
Innovation starts with different, and when you propose something that’s different from the recipe responsible for success, innovation becomes the enemy of success. And because innovation and different...
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