Category: Innovation

Innovation

A Practitioners View of “The Why, How and What of Breakthrough Innovation”

I came across this video of Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellow, Kate Rosenbluth  and her story of how she founded Cala Health. I think the approach that she has taken to building her startup is probably the approach that I recommend in most cases. So, I wanted to share this video with all of you (my readers). If you are thinking of starting up or building a product from scratch, watch Kate talk about her experience and learn from the approach. About Cala Health: Just so that you know, her startup offers wearable neuromodulation therapies which merge neuroscience research with cutting-edge […]

Innovation, transformation

Starting a Digital Transformation Journey

Premise: It seems like there can’t be a day that goes by when I don’t hear the word transformation being tossed around, usually with the prefix – Digital. At a deep level, I think everyone knows and understands that transformation of any kind is not only difficult but in most cases has an extremely low probability of success. The term digital transformation is a misnomer which has quite a lot of people confused. It is first and foremost transformation, of course enabled by digital technologies but people confuse this with digital becoming the operating word instead of transformation. This is […]

Ideas, Innovation, Leadership

How To Choose The Best Idea Amongst All to Execute

Premise: I am sure that we all get into a situation where we are required to come up with a set of ideas that will solve a specific problem that we have run into. The question then is how one decides which ideas deserve to be picked from the bunch of ideas that we came up with. We need some sort of a framework that will allow us to decide the value of each of the idea so that we can pick one that is most valuable. EPIC framework: One such framework was suggested by Todd Henry in his latest […]

Innovation

You Can’t Innovate when

You don’t know what problem you are solving, and for whom You want the innovation project to go strictly according to plan You don’t have a team which is diverse and engaged You don’t use an innovation framework (any framework would do) The team is not given the tools, training, time and a teacher You’re afraid to make a mistake You’re responsible to innovate but never have the authority (budgets or access) needed to innovate There is no significant insight that is driving the project The team is afraid of calling out if and when “the emperor is naked” There […]

Ideas, Innovation, Leadership

Why Some Ideas Never Get Heard!

Premise: I have been reading and writing about ideas and how ideas spread and the role they play in innovation. However, there was a question that almost always bothered me – Why some ideas, despite being great ideas, never got the traction they deserved, both within an organisation and in the marketplace. The answer to this question was provided by Nilofer Merchant in her TEDx talk that she shared on her blog. If this is a topic of interest for you, i would strongly recommend that you start following her blog and the work that she does. Here is the […]