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“It’s Our Job to Ask Questions”: Building a Culture of Inquiry
Innovation Archetecture
OCTOBER 9, 2017
After the publication of Great Question! I began running workshops around “building a culture of inquiry.”
Innovation Archetecture
Ideation Drives Discovery in Customer Experience
Innovation Archetecture
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Organizations mint Chief Customer Officers (CXO) as readily as they mint Chief Innovation Officers. What is it about the Digital Age that causes organizations to mint chiefs of all stripes in the way sheriffs from the Old West would mint deputies to join them on the posse?
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Business Model Canvas and Customer Discovery templates in Microsoft Visio
Innovation Archetecture
JULY 20, 2017
In my work with clients I have found value in having the Business Model Canvas and the Customer Discovery Flow available in Microsoft Visio as a template. Alex Osterwalder developed the Business Model Canvas in his book, Business Model Generation.
All Disruption Is Innovative; Not All Innovation Is Disruptive
Innovation Archetecture
JUNE 27, 2017
The New Yorker ran an article , “Power Brokers,” on how start-up companies—some homegrown, some from Silicon Valley—are offering for the first time a reliable source of electricity to people living in remote parts of Africa. Ghana. Tanzania. The Ivory Coast.
How To Create A Movement To Drive Transformation In Your Company Or Industry
Speaker: Greg Satell
Everybody has something they’d like to change, whether it is a problem in their organization, their industry, their community or society at large. But how can you get your ideas for change to take hold beyond a small circle of likeminded people? What you need is a cascade: small groups that are loosely connected but united by a common purpose. When they synchronize their collective behavior as networks, they become immensely powerful. A business model is disrupted, an industry is remade, the preceding order is no more and the world is transformed.
Innovation and Sustainability: Brothers in Arms
Innovation Archetecture
MARCH 14, 2017
The computer hardware company Cisco published an article on how blockchain technology holds promise in accelerating the adoption of solar energy.
Alexa to the Rescue: Considering the Environments in Which We Innovate
Innovation Archetecture
APRIL 6, 2018
One afternoon last week I picked up my four-year-old daughter from her pre-school. On the drive home she said, “take me to McDonalds.” ” We continued driving home. I had no plans to take her to McDonalds.
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A Recap of Innova-Con 2018: The Maturation of Innovation Management Continues
Innovation Archetecture
MARCH 5, 2018
Last week I had the good fortune to participate in and present at the Innova-Con 2018 conference. Booz Allen Hamilton hosted Innova-Con at their new Innovation Center across from McPherson Square in Washington DC.
Echoes of Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations: ShotSpotter Comes to the City of Cincinnati
Innovation Archetecture
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Have you heard of ShotSpotter? The ShotSpotter company sets up microphones on the top of buildings within a community to capture sounds. The ShotSpotter software tied to the microphones can tell the difference between a gunshot and similar noises, such as the backfiring of a car.
The Benefits of Pursuing Collaborative Innovation with Your Customer Advisory Board
Innovation Archetecture
JANUARY 4, 2018
Introduction. Many organizations have committed to developing deeper intimacy with their most important clients by establishing customer advisory boards.
Bringing Your Balanced Scorecard Alive with Collaborative Innovation
Innovation Archetecture
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Introduction. Robert Kaplan and David Norton popularized the Balanced Scorecard twenty years ago. Its simple, visual framework helps organizations depict linked sets of goals that define strategy.
Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in their own ecosystem. He'll also go over metrics we can use to measure the health of our ecosystems as we build more resources for innovators.
Customer Experience, Ahoy!
Innovation Archetecture
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Do you remember your first real job? The job where you had to show up on time? The job where, when you got your first paycheck, you were shocked—shocked—at the inexplicable chasm between gross and net pay? My first real job was at Long John Silvers.
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Three Wishes for the Corporate Innovator for 2018
Innovation Archetecture
NOVEMBER 18, 2017
My dad loved both the creative and technical aspects of photography. He loved taking pictures. And, he loved developing the images. Both activities have within them a bit of art and science. When he passed I inherited the negatives.
The Baldrige Award Program and Innovation Management: A Match Made in Heaven
Innovation Archetecture
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
Several years ago I had the opportunity and the privilege to serve as an examiner for the Baldrige Awards for the State of Ohio in the U.S. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognizes U.S.
Food for Thought: Success and Lasagna
Innovation Archetecture
MARCH 24, 2017
The recipe for success and the recipe for lasagna enjoy many similarities. First, let us compare the drive to succeed with the desire to make lasagna. We start by observing that nobody makes lasagna for one.
Blessed Are the Mapmakers: The Business of Wayfinding
Innovation Archetecture
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
In a recent article , I observed that the modern-day organization prizes certain cultural traits. We seek to foment a culture of innovation. We seek to foment a culture of quality. We seek to foment a culture of sustainability. And, a culture of safety.
How to Solve 4 Common Challenges of Legacy Information Management
Speaker: Chris McLaughlin, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Product Officer, Nuxeo
After 20 years of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), businesses still face many of the same challenges with finding and managing information. Join Chris McLaughlin, CMO and CPO of Nuxeo, as he examines four common business challenges that these legacy ECM systems pose and how they can be addressed with a more modern approach.
Recession, Survival and Innovation
Destination Innovation
MARCH 27, 2020
In times of severe recession should you cut costs and focus on survival or take the opportunity to invest in innovation so that you can benefit from the eventual recovery? Well the short answer is that you have to survive first.
Podcast S3E51: Stephen Shapiro – Using different lenses to reframe business problems
Idea to Value
MARCH 23, 2020
In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak again with Stephen Shapiro about his new book, Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems.
Innovation fails because humans have emotions
Idea to Value
MARCH 26, 2020
A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results.
We need to delay the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Idea to Value
MARCH 23, 2020
Dear International Olympic Committee – IOC. We need to delay the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, for the following reasons: Japan’s elderly population. Tokyo’s crowded infrastructure. The athletes’ ability to perform.
Never Miss an Opportunity: How ISO 56000 Enables an Innovative Organization
Speaker: Peter Merrill, President, Quest Management Inc.
One of the challenges for innovators is how to integrate innovation with Quality Management (QMS) and balance the culture of creativity with execution. Join Peter Merrill as he walks us through the newly published ISO 56000 series on Innovation Management, specifically the Guidance Standard ISO 56002 that discusses how to establish an Innovation Management System (IMS). He will take you through the elements of innovation management from strategy development, through risk assessment to solution delivery.
5 innovative solutions to combat Coronavirus developed by creative companies
Idea to Value
MARCH 26, 2020
Necessity is the mother of invention. This famous saying is especially true right now, as the world is struggling to contain the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. However, some companies and creative individuals have already come up with innovative solutions to the problem.
Seeking out knowledge that feeds our innovations
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 10, 2020
The more we embrace change and recognize innovation demands more of our time, the more we must seek out knowledge that ‘feeds’ innovation. And the more we ‘push’ for learning, the greater chance we have of thriving in a challenging world.
The Energy Transition Needs A Structured Innovation Process
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 23, 2020
All of us are at present, caught up in the terrible spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). It is hard to think about other things when such societal and economic impact is hitting each of us every day.
Best TV Box Sets
Destination Innovation
MARCH 22, 2020
Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad. Here are my choices for the top TV box sets to binge watch. Breaking Bad. The very best. Bryan Cranston is brilliant as a high school chemistry teacher who starts a new career as a meth producer. Five seasons of compelling drama. The Sopranos.
Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager
Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive. How can conventional organizations succeed in this transformation? In this webinar, Peter Taylor will walk through the change process step by step, and look at a tried and tested transformation roadmap: benefits are outlined, solutions to common challenges offered, and tried and tested methods and tools provided. It will be a guide towards a decentralized and management style that offers more successful decision making through collaboration.
In this scary Coronavirus time, we can benefit from working more in isolation
Idea to Value
MARCH 19, 2020
For the past two weeks, everyone in my company has been working remotely. We had several cases of the Coronavirus in the office, and as a precaution, everyone has been working from home. And it has been working remarkably well. We have been collaborating using Slack, Zoom, Google, Phone and email.
How To Lead Through Crisis
Digital Tonto
MARCH 29, 2020
A crisis is, in at least one way, like anything else. It eventually ends and when it does you will look back at how you performed and will want to be proud. Related posts: How Ebay’s Spinoff. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
How Inovation Affects Leadership and Reskilling: Industry 4.0 Case
Idea to Value
SEPTEMBER 7, 2019
The fourth industrial revolution is no longer just something that companies need to prepare for – it’s a reality that has already arrived. Everything about our current landscape is changing, from how we communicate to the avenues we have for connectivity. In the age of Industry 4.0,
Everything is changing faster- can we respond differently in our Innovation work?
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 5, 2020
Suddenly we are stopped from traveling; we are advised to work from home to keep us safe from this coronavirus and catching it. We have the choice of “self-imposed” or company-imposed” time at home.
Game-Changers 911™: How to Change the Game in 2020
Speaker: John Storm, President, BrainStorm Network
Join John Storm, President of the BrainStorm Network, to learn how to identify game-changing opportunities within your company and industry, and then brainstorm ways to capitalize on these ideas. Get ready to change your game in 2020!
Judge a woman based on her ideas, not her profile photo
Idea to Value
MARCH 6, 2020
I need to start off by apologising. I’m not immune to bias, just like everyone else. This week I had a very interesting conversation with my fiancee about her experiences and challenges to be taken seriously at work as a woman. Especially as an attractive woman in a creative profession.
How Can You Force Yourself to Think Outside the Box?
Destination Innovation
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
There are many ways. Here are some suggestions: First recognise that we all live inside boxes which frame our view of the world. We all make assumptions. Stay curious and open-minded. Ask many questions about any situation and be receptive to different points of view.
The Hostility of Tribes
Destination Innovation
MARCH 16, 2020
Why are tribes so hostile to those who depart from the norms of the tribe? Joseph Palmer was born in 1791 in Massachusetts, one of 14 children. He grew up to be a successful farmer. He took to wearing a beard which was a most uncommon practice at the time.
Your Future Lies in Occupying the Innovation Job and Using the Skills it Provides
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 11, 2019
Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2018. We all need to begin to grapple with what is redefining work in knowledge, skills, our experience, and our necessary abilities to be viable and useful. We continue to hear and begin to see the effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Navigating the VUCA World With Innovation Coaching
Speaker: Janet Sernack, Founder and CEO of ImagineNation
Join the founder and CEO of ImagineNationTM, Janet Sernack, to understand how developing an innovation coaching skill set can help lead the way in supporting people through the exponential change and disruption in our VUCA world.
Famous Person Anagram Quiz
Destination Innovation
MARCH 10, 2020
Test Your Skill at Anagrams with these ten short puzzles. Each answer is a famous person. Please enter your answer in the box. Which terrorist might be said to be A BAD MAN, NO LIES? (5, 5, 3, 5).
3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed
Idea to Value
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
The image here is the list of exactly which capabilities your company needs to succeed at innovation. Read on to understand how it works and how to implement it yourself.
Organizations suffer constantly from unhealthy Innovation tension
Paul Hobcraft
JANUARY 9, 2020
How often do you feel the tensions surrounding innovation? A tough part of managing within larger organizations is in reducing the layers and competing forces, the underlying tensions that innovation (uncertainty) brings out? Hierarchy so often dominates or dictates the speed of what we do.
When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation
Idea to Value
MARCH 12, 2020
As I’m writing this, the last couple of weeks have been quite eventful around the world. There’s a lot of uncertainty and even panic regarding the coronavirus, its current and potential impact on our economy, and of course, its effects on people all around the world.
Beyond the Findings: The Case for UX Research in Digital Transformation
Speaker: Marina Foglietta-Tereo, Head of UX Research, AXA Insurance
People often think of UX research as a tactical approach to improve the usability or visual appeal of a digital product. While good research will certainly validate an existing design, using it for validation alone would be like using your iPhone solely to tell time! Join Marina Foglietta-Tereo, Head of UX Research at AXA Insurance, as she explores the unrecognized organizational, cultural, and strategic benefits of an in-house, central and mature UXR team.
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