Innovation is about Solving Mysteries, not Puzzles
Innovation is about solving problems in a unique and beneficial way, but how you approach the problem has significant impact on how successful and sustainable…
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Great Ideas Are Yours to Steal
Are you interested in a source of new ideas that are proven to work and that don’t cost you anything? They’re available through a process…
Asking For Ideas Is Bad For Innovation
When you follow the same innovation path as most organizations, two-thirds of your new products, new services and new ideas are likely to fail. When…
Innovation begins with an Eye
Leon Segal is quoted in, The Art of Innovation[i], as saying, “Innovation begins with an eye,” though it’s not so much about what you look…
Innovation: You Can’t Get There From Here
Innovation extends from our current knowledge, technology and ethnography into what theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman coined as the Adjacent Possible.[i] Described by innovation theorist Steven…
The Report of Brainstorming’s Death has been Greatly Exaggerated
At least once a year some self-proclaimed pundit decries that brainstorming is ineffective. Is it? Or is it more likely that brainstorming just didn’t work…
Innovation is a Team Sport
Great innovations are not achieved by solitary work, created in a vacuum or emerge fully mature when first conceived. Innovations are not the product of…
Innovation: What You Think Matters Little
No matter what business you think you’re in, you’re in the tool business. Your customers are not buying the set of features you offer. They’re…
Questions are the Answer
Why is it that everything is always in the last place you look? The obvious answer is that once you find it you stop looking.…
