Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’
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.
Read More Why Just About Every Single Head of Innovation (Including Me) Should Be Fired
Most innovation officers are brought in to shake things up, and just about all of them are not aggressive enough. Your job is to run in the face of convention.
Read More All Ideas Are Brilliant Before They Are Executed
Everybody has ideas, Millions of them are floating around everywhere. Every problem anybody encounters is a solution waiting to be unwrapped.
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