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How Are Those Long Range Scanners Working Out?
Are You Looking Far Enough Into The Future? Since our earliest days as primitive savannah wanderers, we humans have had a natural tendency to prioritize immediate gratification above achieving more far-reaching goals.…
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You Need To Experiment Like Crazy To Innovate
Your innovation laboratories’ existential question: which concept has the potential to be worth a billion dollars? After implementing an innovation program, the most significant challenge that I’ve seen businesses face, in my…
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Minimum Viability Eats The World
Awhile back, one of my leading posts was Agile Is Eating The World, where I riff of of Andressen’s quote Software Is Eating The World. In that post, I talk about how…
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You Can’t Innovate Without Thinking About The Future
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy facilitating our customers’ foresight initiatives. It is easier to help your inventors disconnect their current day-to-day jobs from the future which they are…
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How To Use Humans And Machines To Perfect Curation
There are still some tasks that can only be accomplished by people. I remember going to Yahoo! back in 1995, just before everything exploded here in Silicon Valley. I was there with…
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The Future Is Just-in-Time-Person-and-Place
According to Wikipedia, the idea of just-in-time only appears in three contexts: just-in-time manufacturing, a production strategy in which things are built as they are demanded; computer programming, in which just-in-time compilation…
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3 Powerful Ways To Build Innovative New Products, And The Best
What does it take to develop a successful product? This is the billion-dollar question. You can combine several factors in various proportions to innovate your next product. Build Something Better If you…
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How To Leverage Mimetic Theory For Product Innovation
What Is Mimetic Theory I lightly covered mimetic theory in previous posts, a theory of human behavior posited by French philosopher Rene Girard. In short, the theory suggests that all conflict is…
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What’s Your Say-To-Do Ratio When It Comes To Innovation?
Typically, most normal humans beings don’t like being hypocrites or seeing hypocrisy in others. What’s a hypocrite? Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one…
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Why We Can’t Make Humans Happy
Many people have lamented that over the last half-century, innovation has stalled. The look at the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century and marvel at the…
