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The Killer Innovation podcast and workshops are about helping innovators get better at innovating.  The objective is to not settle for just any innovation but to create killer innovations.  What is a killer innovation? A killer innovation is a significant and highly profitable departure from current offerings or practices that would be difficult to duplicate. It’s a game changer!

Why best practices does not equal best strategy (video)

Why best practices does not equal best strategy (video)

July 18, 2011 11:57 am

Best practices for innovation makes no sense. The consulting industry is built up on the idea of taking the “best” from each of their clients…

How to teach kids to be more creative (video)

How to teach kids to be more creative (video)

June 6, 2011 7:29 am

With the transition from the information/knowledge economy to the creative economy, it’s more important than ever to make sure our kids are ready to compete…

Are you avoiding the trap of corporate entrainment?

Are you avoiding the trap of corporate entrainment?

May 9, 2011 7:56 am

The challenge for a corporate innovator is not to get dragged down into the normal, uninspired rate at which the organization operates. Innovation is about…

6th Year Anniversary Of The Killer Innovations Podcast

6th Year Anniversary Of The Killer Innovations Podcast

March 22, 2011 7:05 am

On March 22, 2005, the first episode of the Killer Innovations podcast was uploaded.  Its hard to believe that we just passed the 6th year.…

Innovation is about sticking with it

Innovation is about sticking with it

February 21, 2011 7:41 am

One piece of advice I give to anyone who desires to be the innovation leader within their organization – get ready for the long haul.…

Podcast: Innovate The Way You Innovate

Podcast: Innovate The Way You Innovate

October 25, 2010 7:13 am

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With success comes complacency. With complacency comes letting your guard down. That’s when others will out innovate you. Why do…

Podcast: Speech on the Skills of Practical Innovation

Podcast: Speech on the Skills of Practical Innovation

March 15, 2010 7:05 am

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This weeks podcast is a recording of a recent speech I gave titled “Practical Innovation Skills”.
The underlying theme was on using…

Podcast: Interview with Jim Sutton about the First Touch PC

Podcast: Interview with Jim Sutton about the First Touch PC

March 3, 2010 8:55 am

This podcast is made possible by support from thenextbench.com and the Heritage of Innovation interview series.
Many people think touch is a “new” thing as…

Podcast: Ford And Ideo on Co-Innovation

Podcast: Ford And Ideo on Co-Innovation

December 17, 2009 9:41 am

Update 1/24/2010: Full transcript now available
This podcast is made possible by support from thenextbench.com and the Heritage of Innovation interview series.
This weeks interview…

Podcast: Interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Podcast: Interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

December 10, 2009 9:21 am

This weeks podcast is an interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, that occurred during the recent Web 2.0 conference in…

This page contains the back catalog (archive) of  the Killer Innovations Podcast.  You can subscribe to the podcast at: iTunes, Zune or RSS.  If you find an error or problem with any of the media files, please send an email to feedback@philmckinney.com

Heritage of Innovation – Interviews With Innovation Leaders

  1. Interviewing Robert Scoble (@scobleizer)
  2. Interview with Bob Metcalfe – Inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com
  3. Interview with Jim Sutton On Innovating The First Touch PC
  4. Interview with Dave Watson from Ford and Steve Bishop from IDEO on co-innovation
  5. Interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee – Inventor of the Web discussing the past and future of the web
  6. Interview With Chuck House – The Early Days At HP
  7. Interview With Geoffrey Moore – Part 1 of 2
  8. Interview With Geoffrey Moore – Part 2 of 2
  9. Interview With Art Fong (HP engineer #9)
  10. Interview With David Cochran On Creating The HP 35 Calculator

Killer Innovations Podcast (from most current to oldest)

  1. Going Beyond The Obvious
  2. Best Practices Means Being Average (video)
  3. Kid Based Creativity (video)
  4. Innovate Education Workshop (video) – Example of the ‘grouping’ step in a Killer Innovation Ideation session
  5. Corporate Entrainment (Video)
  6. Innovation Is About Sticking With It
  7. Innovate The Way You Innovate
  8. Enabling Innovation – A Strength In Any Economy (video)
  9. Live Speech – Practical Innovation Skills
  10. Getting Comfortable Taking Innovation Risks – Getting over your fear of something going wrong
  11. How To Uncover Emerging Trends And Weak Signals
  12. Using Creativity To Create A Killer Career -  Using questions to think differently about your career
  13. Telling Your Idea Story – Create a convincing story so that others will sacrifice to make your idea successful
  14. How To Estimate The Value Of An Idea
  15. Improve Innovation Adoption By Communicating The Utility and Cost Benefit
  16. Career Advice For Finding The Dream Innovation Job
  17. Proving The Value Of Innovation – How do you prove to management that innovation is important?
  18. When is the best time to innovate?
  19. Adjacent Innovations – How to use adjacencies to create killer innovations
  20. A Perfect Storm Of Innovation (video)
  21. Lessons Learned From Creating Innovation Teams
  22. Changing Your Perspective Skills
  23. Observation Skills – Find the unspoken needs and wants of customers
  24. Live Speech – Creative Economy
  25. Execution – Translating Ideas to Innovations
  26. Ranking Your Ideas – How to make sure you are working on the best ideas
  27. Ideation – Creating Killer Ideas By Asking Killer Questions
  28. Having A Focus For Your Innovation Search
  29. Current Methods Versus A Better Way To Innovate
  30. Why is innovation important
  31. Finding and Keeping Innovation Champions
  32. Overcoming The Mid-project Blues and a new creativity exercise
  33. One Dimensional Innovations
  34. The New IQ – Innovation Quotient
  35. Finding Hidden Ideas By Using Five Hats
  36. Fighting Innovation FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt)
  37. Prioritizing Your Ideas
  38. Seeing The Big Picture To Innovate
  39. Innovation Failures
  40. Career Advice For The Creative/Innovation Economy
  41. Managing The Innovation Funnel
  42. Measuring Innovation Impact
  43. Trend Safari – Traveling the world in search of emerging trends
  44. Improv Innovation – Using improv comedy tools/tricks to innovate
  45. Making The Innovation Pitch
  46. Creating White Space Innovations – Using innovation maps to create white space innovations
  47. Tools And Tricks To Overcome Creativity Block
  48. India China And The Creative Economy – How to compete in the creative economy
  49. Innovation Gravity – How to avoid complacency that comes with innovation success
  50. Creating Insanely Simple Innovations
  51. Brain On Auto-Pilot – How do you stop your brain from operating in auto-pilot mode?
  52. 10 Infrastructure Requirements For The Creative Economy
  53. High Performance Innovation Teams
  54. Innovation Economy Speech at Reuters
  55. Corporate Corruption Of Innovation
  56. Resource Constraints Impact On Innovation
  57. The Role Of Innovation – What is the role of innovation in large enterprises?
  58. Five Fears Of Innovators and External Innovation Networks
  59. Best Time To Innovate and Proactive Ways To Find Ideas
  60. Overcoming Innovation Block and How To Prevent Innovation
  61. Creative Failure Methodology and Becoming An Innovation Evangelist
  62. Listening Skill and Rules Of Future Forecasting
  63. Observation Skills and Contradictions
  64. Transition To The Creative Economy
  65. Personal Barriers To Creativity
  66. Return Of The Lone Inventor
  67. Importance of the Innovation Process
  68. Show 50 – Listener Feedback
  69. Rest and Relaxation for Better Innovation
  70. Improve Innovation Efficiency
  71. Innovation Toolkit and Prosperity Denial
  72. Innovation of Design and Finding a Mentor
  73. Start-up Innovation
  74. Management Model Innovation
  75. 2008 CES Innovations
  76. Outcome Driven Innovation and Innovation Budgets
  77. da Vinci Method and Outcome Based Innovation
  78. Productivity from Innovation and Innovation Education
  79. Innovation Rules and Virtual Anthropology
  80. Creating a Pipeline of Innovation and Tryvertising
  81. Cost Benefit Analysis of Innovations
  82. Futurecasting and Listener Contributions
  83. Team Diversity for Brainstorming
  84. Innovation Timing – When is the best time to launch my killer innovations?
  85. Innovation Mentoring
  86. Stealth Innovations – Keeping innovations below the radar screen of management
  87. Katrina Innovations
  88. Overcoming Your Idea Critics and The Conceptual Age
  89. Building on the innovations of others
  90. Ethnography and Life Caching
  91. Creating an Innovation Culture
  92. Idea Quota and Twinsumer
  93. Fast Prototyping
  94. Redefining the Innovation Opportunity – How to redefine the problem to uncover the breakthrough idea
  95. Biology Based Innovations – Biomimicry – Using biology as a source for ideas and innovations
  96. Emergent Innovations
  97. Innovation Success Rate
  98. Collaborating for Innovation
  99. Financial Criteria for Killer Innovations
  100. Storytelling & Weak Signals – How to use storytelling to ignite passion for your ideas
  101. Measuring Structured Innovation & Applying Killer Questions
  102. Structured Innovation Process & Changing Perspective
  103. Structured Innovation Part 2 & Innovation Rate
  104. Scenario Planning & Computer Gaming
  105. Transforming your organization & Alternative industries
  106. Incremental Innovations & Role of Sci-Fi
  107. Interview with Brain Reactions & Killer Question
  108. 2nd Generation Innovation Tools & Human Scale
  109. Killer Innovations Workshop Warm-up & Differentiation
  110. 1st Generation Innovation Tools  & Weak Signals
  111. 10 types of Innovation
  112. Ranking Ideas & Customer Segments
  113. Killer Innovation Workshop – How to organize and run one
  114. Killer Questions – How does the quality of the question improve the quality of the idea?
  115. Innovating to win in the ‘experience economy’
  116. The challenges or barriers that slow down or prevent the innovation process.

Live Speeches

  1. Live Speech – Practical Innovation Skills
  2. Enabling Innovation – A Strength In Any Economy (video)
  3. Video of Makers Faire Appearance Topic: Creating Killer Innovations (video)
  4. A Perfect Storm Of Innovation (video)
  5. Live Speech – Creative Economy
  6. Innovation Economy Speech at Reuters