Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’
Don’t Fear Transformation, Fear Irrelevance!
A reader asked how to overcome individuals’ and organizational fear of transformation. My knee jerk reaction was that irrelevance is much more scary than transformation.
Read More The Sharing Economy and Your Business
There’s a brand new world of transactions forming and it’s named the sharing or collaborative economy. The standard definition of this new trend is an economic model for individuals to borrow or rent assets owned by someone else.
Read More 5 Digital Marketing Trends That Will Disrupt Your Business
You have been running your business for a long time. Life is good. Sales are holding up. The admin processes and technology systems are nailed. You have your eye on your competitors and industry. The business model is stable.
Read More Tapping Into Our Creative Mindset By Pushing Past the “No”s
We tend to approach choices in black and white: “A” or “B,”this way or that way. You process choices this way because it’s easier, simpler, and helps you finish this whole decision-making thing quickly.
Read More The New Manufacturing Order
An old, familiar story line is returning to the technology industry. Yes, there’s a bit of a 1970s Jobs and Wozniak throwback here.
Read More The Coffee and Wine School of Innovation
Here’s one for debate around a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. Most innovation occurs when creative people are relaxed and thinking about other things.
Read More Reward Success and Failure. Punish Only Inaction.
Reward failure? That may be a difficult concept for an executive. And there are limits of course. We wouldn’t reward a failure to follow laws, or protect lives, or deliberate endangerment of the company or its people.
Read More Why We Have Fewer Choices in a World of Wider Choice
Whether as individual consumers, or organizations, there’s an interesting paradox. The number of choices we have is expanding at a huge rate.
Read More Don’t Let Too Many Features Ruin Your Next Product
“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more new business solutions than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening.
Read More 3 Ways to Find Forgotten Innovation
The best and brightest teams can be rendered uninspired, stumped, scared and maybe even lazy when faced with a huge, blank whiteboard titled, “Our Next Big Thing….”
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