Magic and Innovation: A Lesson on Corporate Alignment from a Cut and Restored...
In this 4-minute video clip, I illustrate some of the principles from our book, Conquering Innovation Fatigue, using one of my favorite magic tricks, a version of the cut and restored paper trick. It...
View ArticleAvoid the Corporate Chilling Effect on Innovation
A heavy-handed or micromanaging approach to handling a community of innovators in a corporation often has an unintended chilling effect that can put the freeze on innovation. Avoid this innovation...
View ArticleGlobal Entrepreneurship Week Starts Today
Global Entrepreneurship Week starts today. This event was started by the Kauffman Foundation, leading champions of entrepreneurship and education, and Make Your Mark, a British group reaching out to...
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Death Panels for Innovation: How Are Your Corporate IP Review Boards Doing?
Is Your Company on the Cutting Edge of Innovation? Your IP Review Board May Be. Death panels have been a hot topic for speculation from some folks worried about health care reform, but in the world of...
View ArticleThe Forest Bioproducts and Paper Industries: The Need to Conquer Innovation...
The North American paper industry suffers from a largely undeserved image problem. Many view it as an antiquated smokestack industry, when it has been a leader in exciting areas in technology and...
View ArticleWorld-Class Success in Driving Innovation: Parallels Between Singapore and...
In late 2009, I was invited to speak at Singapore’s Innovation and Enterprise Week 2009, an event held at Biopolis and sponsored by A*STAR, the world-class research organization of the Singaporean...
View ArticleStrengthening Innovation for the Telecommunications Industry: Condensed...
In May 2010 I was invited to speak at a conference of WTA (the Wisconsin Telecommunications Association) about innovation lessons for the telecommunications industry from our recently published book,...
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The Tsunami of External Fatigue
Innovators and business leaders doing their best to achieve commercial success need to understand the set of innovation fatigue factors that they face. These include personal factors due to the bad...
View ArticleThe Quest for Profit: The Mother of Invention, or Its Kidnapper?
As we discuss in Conquering Innovation Fatigue, the profit motive can be important for inventors but is often not the real incentive behind the quest to invent. Steps that eliminate the opportunity to...
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Time Travel Is Easy: How to Send Your Company Back to the Dark Ages
The Dark Ages: Coming Soon to a Company Near You In many large corporations, there’s a painful and frequently repeated scenario of invention theft that we treat in several ways in the book, Conquering...
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Tortoise Innovation: The Problem with Hiding in a Shell
Many large companies take a tortoise approach to innovation and stay as hidden within their shells as possible, even some who advocate open innovation. Tortoise companies may have creative R&D...
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How Abstract Is Your Automobile?
Be careful about the vehicle you’ve been driving. As sturdy, tangible, useful, and inventive as it looks to you, it may turn out to be merely an abstraction, perhaps nothing more than the mere idea of...
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