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Top 7 Ways To Become A Better Crappy Boss
2007-08-23 03:46:00 Are you a crappy boss? Would you like to be a BETTER crappy boss? Would you like to be that useless waste of space that has the innovation of a coathanger? More About: Business , Branding , Innovation , Boss , Creativity
Followup - How EESTOR Can Be Disruptive
2007-08-21 05:21:00 My innocuous little post on EESTOR has become the most popular/infamous article I’ve written yet. So I thought I would follow it up with a more positive outlook on how I think EESTOR could be more disruptive. More About: Business , Branding , Innovation , Creativity , Brand
Innovation at Google Part I: Why Google Is Sooooo Interested In Mobile Acce
2007-08-19 04:39:00 The internet is awash with articles on Google ’s prototype cell phone, and Google’s lobbying effort to guarantee open access in the upcoming wireless spectrum auction. Sounds like Google wants to go in the cell phone business. Au contraire. You need but watch this video of Douglas Merrill explaining Google’s innovation philosophies, and it all but ... More About: Business , Mobile , Branding , Innovation
A Cheaper Electric Car By 2009???
2007-08-16 16:16:00 No matter what I write about regarding innovation, it seems that everyone is most interested in reading about electric cars. So without further ado: More About: Business , Innovation , Electric , Electric Car
Branding 101
2007-08-15 05:33:00 A couple of weeks ago I posted Business Week’s Top 100 Brand s. Needless to say, this list reveals the value that effective branding represents. As a follow-on, I embedded an excellent slide show on branding on my Videos page. It’s from Marty Neumeier of Neutron LLC, author of The Brand Gap. Let’s take a look at it ... More About: Branding , Innovation , Creativity
Arrr, Mateys - Top 7 Innovation Pirates
2007-08-13 03:00:00 ?Innovation is a pirate ship that you create and sail under cover of foggy darkness into the safe harbor of your competitors.? - Larry Keeley, lecture at UCSB, 1995 If innovation is the pirate ship, an innovative company is the pack of scurvy dogs, armed to the teeth and ready to wage war on the competition. Like pirates attacking from ... More About: Business , Branding , Pirates , Creativity
Does EESTOR Have What It Takes To Be Disruptive?
2007-08-10 04:42:00 One of the great myths of innovation is that the best products win out. Nothing could be further from the truth - tons of great products fail. Let’s take a look at an potentially great new product and see what might be in store for it. More About: Business , Branding , Innovation , Brand
7 Steps To Being A Better Creative Thinker
2007-08-08 04:18:00 The scenario - you’ve been given a messy problem to solve on your own. It’s time to shine as a creative thinker. Your strategy: More About: Business , Creative , Branding , Innovation , Creativity
The Power of Positive Thinking
2007-08-06 04:57:00 No, I’m not talking about the famous book by Norman Vincent Peale. I’m talking about one of the most powerful tools in the innovation process. A few weeks ago I described the traits of innovators. One of the four traits I described was positive thinking. Like creative thinking and collaboration, positive thinking doesn’t come naturally to ... More About: Business , Power , Innovation , Creativity , Facilitation
How Google Does Innovation
2007-08-06 04:56:00 I just posted on the Video page a Youtuber from Google on how they do the innovation thing. Covers branding, customer experience, business model, etc. After I view it a few times I’ll post on it. More About: Business , Branding , Innovation , Experience
IC?s Familiar Quotations on Innovation
2007-08-05 04:56:00 Here it is, people - as Ed McMahon would say, “Everything you ever wanted to know about innovation quotes is in this list.” Some pertain to business, some to art, some to politics. Some will make you think, others will make you scowl. You have no idea of the massive scope of this effort. Days turned into ... More About: Business , Innovation , Experience , Creativity , Quotations
BusinessWeek?s Top 100 Global Brands
2007-08-04 03:59:00 As we’ve seen, branding is one of the areas which, if done properly, strongly influences innovation effectiveness. What can we learn from Business Week’s Top 100 Global Brands? First all, note that the brand is not necessarily the parent company. Coca-Cola is both the brand and the parent company. But in the case parent company Daimler-Chrysler, the winning ... More About: Branding , Innovation , Creativity
Problem Finding - The Most Important Part of the Innovation Process
2007-07-30 08:03:00 My favorite analogy for problem solving is this: you’ve got a gun and you’re trying to hit a target. The target represents the problem you’re trying to solve. The gun represents innovation. You represents YOU. By aiming at the problem with your gun of innovation you hope to hit the bullseye with the right solutions. In ... More About: Business , Innovation , Creativity , Problem , Part
7-Step Guide To Crushing Innovation In Its Tracks
2007-07-27 01:52:00 Is your organization just too damned innovative? Do you suffer from exquisitely sustained product lines, great branding, and excessive profits? Do your people bear the burden of creativity, happiness, and motivation? Do your customers endure the drudgery of a one-of-a-kind experience? Do your collaborative partners curse your name as they share in your great success? These simple steps will help ... More About: Business , Innovation , Guide , Creativity , Tracks
7-Step Guide To Crushing Innovation In Its Tracks
2007-07-25 03:52:00 Is your organization just too damned innovative? Do you suffer from exquisitely sustained product lines, great branding, and excessive profits? Do your people bear the burden of creativity, happiness, and motivation? Do your customers endure the drudgery of a one-of-a-kind experience? Do your collaborative partners curse your name as they share in your great success? These simple steps will help ... More About: Business , Innovation , Guide , Creativity , Tracks
IDEO?s Ten Faces Of Innovation
2007-07-24 04:47:00 Finally, a book that connects innovation with personality and creative style. Tom Kelley of IDEO describes in great detail the different types of people it takes to staff an innovative organization. This describes each of the ten types in great detail. Which are you? I share traits of both “Collaborator” and “Cross-Pollenator.” Each chapter is littered with examples. ... More About: Business , Faces , Innovation , Creativity , Facilitation
Let?s Put ?Open Source? To The Test
2007-07-17 04:18:00 I’m vacationing in Colorado this week. As I was hiking in Ouray, I had an idea. I want to make this blog more interactive and useful. Instead of just posting opinions on innovation, I’m going to try and kick-start some REAL innovation. Let’s start putting our collective creative thinking resources to use, and make open source ... More About: Business , Open Source , Open , Source , Innovation
Message from the ICE: ?I?m Not Dead Yet! I?m Feeling Happy!?
2007-07-15 06:47:00 In my two-parter on the need for electric cars I discuss the internal combustion engine (ICE) as being the biggest reason we need to go electric. So imagine my surprise when I found out about a rogue manufacturer who has rethunk some of the fundamental workings of the ICE and created a potential winner. So ... More About: Business , Innovation , Happy , Creativity , Message
New Page Tab Up Top - Innovation Writings
2007-07-12 05:42:00 I’ve started a running index of all my writings and commentary on innovation topics. They can be accessed by the new tab above entitled ‘Innovation Writings .’ More About: Business , Page , Creativity
Degrees of Innovation Effectiveness
2007-07-11 05:17:00 After thinking a great deal about the IDEO and Doblin information I’ve presented, my views on targeted innovation are entering another evolutionary stage. Again. Innovation effectiveness is becoming more of a science. Effective ness is rising as we learn more about what works, and what doesn’t, at the macro level. So what is the role of creative ... More About: Business , Creativity , Facilitation
The Coming Revolution In Weight Loss
2007-07-09 23:11:00 Biotechnology is pretty much in its infancy. In the next few decades bioscience and biotech will have as profound an impact on our lives as the microchip. A couple of recent research advances might totally revise the way we handle obesity and weight control. First: Penn State researchers have found a ’fat burn button’ that basically sends a signal to metabolize fat. It ... More About: Health , Weight Loss , Diet , Weight , Biotechnology
Prototyping Your Way To Innovation
2007-07-06 05:58:00 While reading my books on IDEO I am constantly reminded of how important prototyping is to innovation process. Prototyping takes on a far more general meaning in a culture of innovation. It doesn’t refer only to the first draft of a new product - it could be anything from a new process to a new philosophy. In my ... More About: Business , Innovation , Creativity , Facilitation , Ping
Two Vastly Opposing Views on Brainstorming, Pt. III
2007-07-05 06:00:00 IDEO loves brainstorming. Doblin hates brainstorming. Who is right? Who is the most wrong? Let’s start smacking them together and see what ends up on the floor. First of all, in many aspects they are both right because they are talking about two different approaches to innovation. IDEO is right because their success is undeniable. Doblin is right because their data are ... More About: Business , Views , Innovation , Creativity , Facilitation
Keirsey Temperament Assessment - Free, Powerful, and Revealing
2007-07-04 01:44:00 During my last session at the Advanced School for Innovators we were reminded of another personal inventory tool that’s just as useful as Myers-Briggs (MBTI) and KAI - the Keirsey Temperament Assessment . When you go to the Keirsey assessment page the first thing that you notice is that, unlike KAI, you can take the assessment over the internet. ... More About: Business , Free , Innovation , Creativity
Two Vastly Opposing Views on Brainstorming, Pt. II
2007-07-01 21:26:00 In my first installment I discussed IDEO’s approach to brainstorming and how they incorporate it into their innovation processes. Now let’s take a look at someone who thinks brainstorming is a waste of time. Larry Keeley of Doblin is a well-known innovation educator and consultant. Doblin has researched innovation extensively and discovered a great deal about ... More About: Business , Views , Innovation , Creativity , Facilitation
Big Bacterial Biology Breakthrough
2007-07-01 03:03:00 Craig Venter has done it again. His team replaced the DNA of one bacterium with the DNA from another of a different species - and transformed the host into the donor. The transplanted DNA took over its single-cell host in about three days. The resulting bacterium was indistinguishable from the donor species, the researchers reported in the online edition of the ... More About: Business , Biology , Biotechnology , Innovation , Al B
New Titles in the Library
2007-06-29 23:13:00 I added several titles to the Library page that I’ve been meaning to add for sometime. I’m reading two additional books right now, “Myths of Innovation ” by Scott Berkun and “Ten Faces of Innovation,” another book about IDEO focused on the personality and creative styles it takes to make an effective innovation team. More About: Business , Creativity , The Library
Two Vastly Opposing Views on Brainstorming, Pt. I
2007-06-29 05:11:00 To become a better innovator I try to assimilate and integrate different points of view on innovation and the creative process. One of the traditional cogs of innovation is the practice of brainstorming, the group ideation technique invented by Alex Osborne in the 50s. Contrary to what you might think, brainstorming is a well-defined process with specific rules ... More About: Business , Views , Innovation , Creativity , Facilitation
More On That Air-Powered Car
2007-06-26 21:59:00 Here’s a cool video on the air-powered car coming out of India: With all our efforts focused on electric cars, it’s sad that ideas like this are overlooked. If widely available, air driven cars would immediately fill a huge niche for local commuting. All you need to refuel is an air compressor, which you can get ... More About: Business , Innovation , Creativity , Red Car
Advanced School for Innovators, Part II
More articles from this author:2007-06-26 09:39:00 Well, I’m back. The second ever Advanced School for Innovators (ASfI) is over. Due to lack of time and marginal video connection, I wasn’t able to post during the school. In a nutshell: There was a regular School for Innovators in session when we started rolling in Thursday night. We plugged in to the innovation sessions and worked ... More About: Business , Innovation , Creativity , Part 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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