Monthly Archives: October 2011
You may be surprised to find many of your products and services conform to the five innovation patterns of Systematic Inventive Thinking. If so, it means your employees are predisposed to use innovation patterns when developing new products. Like many innovators, they are using patterns probably without realizing it. Given this predisposition to using innovation templates, a company can realize huge gains in innovation effectiveness by taking the next step. Continue reading
In this second part of the series we will review each of these eight ingredients of employee Engagement to determine why they are so important. Let’s review each of these eight ingredients of employee Engagement to determine why they are so important: Continue reading
Everyone is obsessed with Apple and how to disrupt the master disrupter, but what everyone is doing is either copying each other or try to make small changes to Apple’s designs without the power of the Apple brand/user experience and the powerful Apple ecosystems behind them. Let’s say if your army has the same uniform, equipment and the same Hummers as the US military doesn’t mean you can compete with the powerful military intelligence system linking everything. Continue reading
If you have not yet had the opportunity to see the movie Moneyball, make it a priority. Take your co-workers, your design team, your marketers, your merchants, your engineers, your customers. Don’t go in expecting to see sex, politics, or violence on the big screen. Do go in expecting to be thoroughly entertained… to learn something about innovation, about leadership, about teamwork, about baseball, about intuition, and about life. Do go in expecting to be inspired. Continue reading
I had the opportunity to chat with Russ Conser about Shell’s three year partnership with the XPRIZE Foundation to sponsor the Exploration Prize Group. This video explores the journey that Shell went through to end up partnering with the X PRIZE Foundation and the implications internally for Shell.
In other words, while the ideas seem important, its the process, the tools and the attitude shift that is really valuable. Or, put another way, “give a team an idea, and they’ll innovate in the short run. Give them the tools and the time, and they’ll innovate forever.” Continue reading
