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Innovation
Are You Unconventional Enough in Your Thinking?
Unconventional thinking from unconventional individuals is the lifeblood of innovation. They are the people who see things in a new way, and because of this, they often come up with truly unconventional ideas. Ideas that conventional thinkers would never think of. And while it's true that many unconventional individuals do not have formal training in…
14 Feb 20221KViews
Why Innovations Fail
Innovation Podcasts
Why Innovation Fails – The Top 10 Causes
Many businesses find their innovations fail, often at great expense and strenuous effort. These innovation failures surprise and frustrate them. They are then left wondering as to what caused their innovations to fail. Innovation Preparedness Many causes result in innovation efforts failing. While many causes of innovation failure are within your control, some are not. Understanding…
08 Feb 20221KViews
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Paying It Forward With Random Acts of Kindness
I began my tech career in a factory in Evansville, IN as the sole “geek” living in a condemned (yes—condemned) apartment building for $50.00 a month with my wife, who was finishing her nursing degree. How things have changed from that humble beginning. When I look back on my career and where it…
07 Feb 2022956Views
Innovation Tools
Innovation Podcasts
9 Types of Innovation Tools
Innovation tools allow us to do things we naturally can’t, which unleashes our creative potential. It can be hard to pinpoint the right one for your organization with thousands of options out there. Let’s explore several innovation tool categories that will help improve performance. 9 Types of Innovation Tools Idea sketching tools: Idea sketching tools…
01 Feb 20221KViews
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Innovation
Being Thrown Under The Bus: The Dilemma of Blame
This last week, I got pulled back into a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise ( $HPE ) news cycle. Last Thursday, the UK courts ruled there was fraud by Autonomy , their CEO and CFO related to its acquisition by HPE. When HPE wrote down $8.8 billion against the acquisition in 2012, HPE executive leadership got busy…
31 Jan 20221KViews
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Innovation
Finding Ideas In The Mundane and Familiar
How many times have you walked past something and not really seen it? How many times have you seen something a million times without ever really noticing it? It's easy to take the familiar for granted. We're so used to it, we see it as mundane and stop paying attention. "The Disease of the…
24 Jan 2022839Views
Innovation Benchmark
Innovation Podcasts
How to Escape the Innovation Benchmark Trap
Benchmarking compares your organization to others to measure your performance and identify areas for improvement. When done correctly, benchmarking can help you learn from your peers and identify areas for improvement. However, benchmarking can also have negative consequences if done incorrectly. How do you escape the innovation benchmark trap? Good Vs. Bad Benchmarking Proper benchmarking helps…
18 Jan 2022922Views
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Innovation
Sharing is Caring – So Share Your Idea!
One of the biggest mistakes we make in life is convincing ourselves that our ideas are unique and ours alone. We rationalize keeping our ideas to ourselves because we are afraid that others will steal them, or worst—we believe our ideas aren't good enough. Our ideas are precious, but they aren't that unique nor that…
17 Jan 2022693Views
Bad Habits
Innovation Podcasts
What Bad Habits are Killing Your Creativity?
It takes practice and patience to develop your creativity, and there are bad habits people learn which crush their creativity. But like all bad habits, we can break these if we are willing to work at it! What Are Habits? Habits are things you do automatically, without thinking. Bad habits can form in a few days, but…
11 Jan 2022792Views
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Innovation
Don’t Play Follow The Leader With Your Career
Why do so many people believe they can become successful simply by copying what successful people do? Identifying a role model and then playing follow the leader is an age-old habit of looking for "shortcuts” to success. Why? Are They Smarter?   Many people believe their role models are successful because they are smarter. Research shows…
10 Jan 2022893Views
most downloaded episode
Innovation Podcasts
Most Downloaded Episode of 2021
With the start of a new year, let’s look back at the most downloaded episode of 2021. The Most Downloaded Episode of 2021 As an innovation leader, I encounter loads of information every day. I like to use tools that capture/organize this information and bring it together in a way that’s easy to access. I need…
03 Jan 2022731Views
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Innovation
Problems In Need Of Solving: Where To Start?
Why do innovators focus time and energy on developing solutions before they've identified the problem? Innovation starts by spending time to understand the problem before solving the problem. [shareable cite="Albert Einstein"]If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.[/shareable] What Are Problems? …
03 Jan 20221KViews
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