Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’
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….”
Read More Inside the Top Startup Factories
Increasingly, instead of just starting a new company, talented entrepreneurs and company founders are launching a new style of business that some are calling “parallel entrepreneurship” or “startup factories.”
Read More Office Design Lessons from Innovationland
Our company has been recognized as having one of the “Coolest Offices” in Chicago on a number of occasions—most recently by Crain’s Chicago Business.
Read More Could Uber Put FedEx Out of Business?
Spoiler Alert: The answer is yes, and that is a very important lesson for you, as well.
Read More Large Corporations Fail to Innovate Like Startups
The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services.
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