Category: Innovation

Innovation

Necessity Isn’t Always the Mother of Invention

I just watched a TED video where Steven Johnson shares the story of how a flute made by a pre-historic man led to the creation of a tech revolution, that is the computer. You can watch the TED video here or below. He goes on to argue that not all inventions  come from necessity and that there is a good possibility that people who have fun invariably invent new stuff that enables them to have fun, the kind that they want. In all the Design Thinking workshops that I moderate, I have three rules for all participants: One conversation at […]

Innovation, Podcast

PBTO48: Your Organisation’s Culture is Your Last Competitive (Invisible) Advantage with Soren Kaplan

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/48_PBTO48__Building_Your_Invisible_Advantage_with_Soren_Kaplan.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSS Who is on the show: In this episode we host, Soren Kaplan. Soren is the bestselling and award-winning author of Leapfrogging and The Invisible Advantage, an Affiliated Professor at the Center for Effective Organisations at USC’s Marshall School of Business, a writer for FastCompany, a globally recognised keynote speaker, and the Founder of InnovationPoint, an innovation consulting company. Why is he on the show: His Wall Street Journal bestseller, Leapfrogging, was recognised as “Best General Business Book” by the International Book Awards and “Best Leadership Book” by the Axiom Book Awards. He is a sought after […]

Innovation

Building a Culture of Innovation by Creating A Structure for Unstructured Innovation

The need for innovation has never been more acute for businesses than it is today. Every CEO of any sizable business is worrying about which startup from which garage is going to change the rules of their game and disrupt them. They are looking for ways to find (internally, within their organisation or externally, through acquisition/partnership/investments) innovations that can give them enough breathing space to grow their businesses and give their shareholders a good return on investment (and in the process make a lot of money for themselves :-)) However, what most organisations don’t get is that there is only one […]

Ideas, Innovation, transformation

Finding Our Centre Of Excellence

I read a post by Mitch Joel (one of my insanely awesome people) where he proposes a 7 step model to define what could be our centre of excellence. Please do read his post here. I wanted to do this exercise and the result is as below: The Tactic: My tactic of my primary output is content, just like Mitch himself. The Format: My format is text and audio. The Frequency: This is a place where i need to improve significantly. I have committed to myself that i will create content everyday in text and at least once a week in […]

Innovation

Intelligent Failure

I just came across this video where Rita McGrath shares her views on how to fail intelligently. First, do take some time and watch the short video below. She talks about the 4 different activities that constitute intelligent failure. How does success look like? I think she makes a great point here. One of the biggest challenge that I have seen in innovation projects is they have a big goal and know what success at the highest level looks like – successful product launch, getting the next round of funding, getting approval from the management to go into production, etc. […]