Leadership
The 7 Immutable Laws of Innovation – Follow them or risk the consequences
. ? Over the years of being in the innovation space, I’ve discovered a set of laws by trial and error. I have the scars from the school of hard knocks to validate that these 7 laws of innovation are critical for innovation success. If you violate any one of them, the consequences can be […]
Why is it that most organizations fail at innovation leadership?
In most organizations these days, decision making is held in the hands of the few. This is especially true when it comes to innovation. Rather than taking advantage of the passion, insight and expertise of the entire organization, the executives make the call on what ideas to consider, what ideas t
Why best practices does not equal best strategy (video)
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 and merging them together and then selling them to all the companies within a given industry. So why is this a bad idea? Best practices make everyone the same
What is the role of government to encourage small business innovation?
Since the beginning of time, it’s been entrepreneurs that drive the creation of innovation. True breakthroughs have been the result of an individual or small team who had an idea and the determination to see it through to fruition. In many cases, ignoring the advice of friends and the lack of what
Yes, I am a Eagle Scout (Forbes video) . . .
During a previous interview session I did with Kym McNicholas at Forbes, I mentioned that we had to be done at a specific time as I had to take my Boy Scout Troop on a campout that weekend.
Small Businesses Will Be Key For The Economic Recovery
I’m an eternal optimist when it comes to the ability of people to create innovations – especially when we find ourselves at our greatest need. This drive to solve problems is a prime catalyst for entrepreneurs who are the ones behind small businesses. So are entrepreneurs better at innovating than
Job Of The Future: Creativity Guru
As we move from the information/knowledge economy to the creative economy, a new category of jobs will need to be created. These new jobs will be critical to helping companies make the transition from the “old world” to the “new”. One such job of the future – creativity guru. For those of us who wa
Transformational Innovations
The ultimate objective of any innovation is to transform business and transform lives. How do you know if your innovation is of that transformational kind? Here are my definitions that I use for the different stages/types of business: If you charge for undifferentiated stuff, then you are in the c
Permission Based Innovation
I was recently presenting to an organization (un-named to protect the innocent) on how to create an innovation culture. During the session, the question was asked “What changes were needed to make the organization more innovative?”. I was awestruck with the string of suggestions, mostly starting w
Slides from Innovation Tour presentation
Below are the slides I used during a recent dinner speech I gave for the Innovation Tour hosted by Brainreactions. For long time listeners of the podcast, you will recall that I did an interview with the founder of Brainreactions (Anand Chhatpar) in one of the first podcasts. At that time, Anand
