Posts Tagged ‘perspective’

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    Podcast: Telling Your Idea Story
    (audio) How do you create a convincing message so that others will sacrifice to make your idea successful?  Its all about storytelling.  If you follow the same structure used by movie industry and by book authors, you can create a story that will attract others to your killer idea.  What is that structure? Stimulate their emotion Change the mood. ...
    by philmckinney at February 8th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
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    Killer Innovations CD – Almost here !!
    With the encouragement of the listeners of the podcast, I’ve been working on creating a CD that you can share with your friends, managers, team members, etc.  The objective is to create something that introduces the "what" and the "how" of innovation without listening to the +100 hours of audio that now makes-up the podcast catalog. For...
    by philmckinney at October 21st, 2008 at 11:10 pm
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    Podcast: Changing Your Perspective
    Segment 1: How to change your perspective and look beyond the obvious We all have filters We don’t even realize we have filters (what is half of thirteen?) We need our own internal flags to remind us to change our perspective Segment 2: Why is the killer innovation approach better? Full 360 degree view of possible innovations (Focus) Better idea through better...
    by philmckinney at June 30th, 2008 at 12:06 am
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    Podcast: Ideation – Creating Killer Ideas
    Segment 1: Ideation – Creating Killer Ideas The current method … simple questions get simple answers Better questions get killer ideas Explore beyond the obvious – SCAMPER Idea Quota Characteristics of the best killer ideas The ideation session has a purpose Consider timeliness in setting the focus and the session Recruit for diversity (executive...
    by philmckinney at February 24th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
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    Black Toilet Paper
      Day 3 of a whistle stop tour across Europe speaking on innovation and design.  Have you ever had the strange feeling of waking up in a strange hotel and not knowing for sure what country, city or time zone you are in? The morning we awoke  in Paris was one of those mornings.  Except it’s not what you think.  It wasn’t the result of...
    by philmckinney at October 12th, 2006 at 01:10 pm
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    Are you an innovator?
    At Forbes.com, Clayton Christensen authored an article that gives his perspective on what an organization needs to be doing to consider themselves as "innovating".  The questions that Clayton posed were: 1. Do I have a balanced portfolio with different types of growth stratagies? 2. Have I allocated resouces to achieve a balanced innovation portfolio? 3....
    by philmckinney at May 26th, 2006 at 09:05 am
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    10 Ways to Rethink Your Work
    From the Fast Company blog … Getty Images has an interesting project in which they worked with five collaborators to consider 10 Ways — how 10 different approaches to photography can change how you look at images. As I explored the different elements, which include light, information, memory, space, response, emotion, color, truth, time, and transformation,...
    by philmckinney at May 23rd, 2006 at 08:05 am