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5 Innovation must reads of the week: How can you increase insight?
[View the story "5 Innovation must reads of the week: How can you increase insight?" on Storify] Related Posts5 Innovation must reads of the week: The Remarkable Ways We Gain InsightsThe world needs...
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Q&A: Babak Forutanpour on how to start a grass roots innovation program in a...
How do you start a grassroots innovation program within your company? In the following interview, you’ll learn how simple it really is. I had the opportunity to interview Babak Forutanpour, the...
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What a 16 year old magician can teach you about exceeding expectations
Imagine seeing an ad about a restaurant that makes fish tacos. Now imagine seeing a comment on Facebook from a friend about a restaurant he is at that not only sells fish tacos, but also poetically...
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10 Change your course questions CEO’s need to ask themselves
Questioning, one of my favorite activities. I’ve been spotting a lot of it lately, and that’s good. Whether it’s because we are entering the last month of the year or because people are feeling the...
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The Big Bang approach to problem definition
The way a problem is defined guides the way people think about it. You can never have/experiment with enough tools. I like to experiment with various “problem definition” approaches, as I believe this...
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For innovation: Uncommon insights come from uncommon places
Perception separates the innovator from the imitator. So, a shift in perspective is all that is needed to see opportunities for new offerings. Here is one creative approach to do that… One of the...
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How to filter me-too ideas and leave small thinking behind
This is a three part post on how to leave small thinking behind. In the first post, I showed you a simple technique for coming up with radical ideas. Here I talk about how to evaluate ideas so they...
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Are all innovators alike?
Nuances and details are lost in the sea of bullshit that is media and human irrationality, and an outcome is one of the most dangerous things humans do: build people up to more than they probably are....
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5 toxic assumptions businesses make about people
Though business leaders say they want innovation, the vast majority hate the concept of creativity. But as much as us innovators are fed up with this, the truth is that it isn’t the executives fault...
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What’s your question?
Sometimes an interesting questions doesn’t come out nowhere, it requires some serious inquiry and reflection. Defining the real problem is the key part of the innovation process, if you don’t figure...
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Creativity Inc.: what it takes to build and sustain a culture of excellence
I just finished reading the book Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull, this is my review… Unlike books written by consultants about how wonderful the companies they study are, and how they have reverse...
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Practice frame shifting to spot untapped innovation opportunities
Perception separates the innovator from the imitator. To see anew, learn to set aside preconceptions by exploring new perspectives. How might we shift our perspective and explore what we might be...
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Ed Catmull’s thoughts for managing a creative culture
From Ed Catmull’s Creativity Inc., 28 ideas on how Pixar engineers and sustains a creative culture. A culture of innovation is a culture of creativity, enthusiasm and daring. Not a place where...
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Quick guide on how to use Evernote to stay on top of emerging trends
What is the process I use to keep up and /or uncover emerging trends and what tools do I use? Previously, I’ve written about how to create an insights bank using Evernote. Here I’ll expand on that...
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Is too much collaboration bad for innovation?
All great achievements came about through collaboration. But, sometimes too much collaboration inhibits our ability to think creatively. Last week’s post about what impedes employees from being...
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How to learn your way to not caring about what anybody thinks
English: Ryan Valentine scores the goal that keeps Wrexham in the Football League. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In their most recent book, Think Like A Freak, Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubmer tell the...
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3 tips that will help you better define a problem
Takeru Kobayashi (Photo credit: yamchild) If you start with the wrong problem, it’s unlikely you’ll ever arrive at an effective solution. Think about a problem you’d really like to solve, and before...
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Why deadlines impede innovation
It’s almost impossible to come up with really innovative things when you have a deadline and schedule. It is no secret that constraints drive innovation. But what about deadlines? Deadlines, when...
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The 7 essential innovation questions
The path to innovation usually starts with a question. That’s what Autodesk’s Innovation Genome Project developed after it tried to quantify what worked about the 1,000 greatest innovations of all...
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First principles thinking: a better way to innovate
Elon Musk (Photo credit: jdlasica) “If it’s a sure bet, we’re not interested,” – Jay Schnitzer, former director of Darpa’s Defense Sciences Office Solving problems no one else has encountered, that’s...
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