Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

“ Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without strategy” Below is an extract from “Reinventing Innovation” by John J Kao. Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without a strategy. Sadly, it rings true as much as it did those (many) years back.

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Michael Roberto

APRIL 21, 2017

The title of his article: "The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews." Jason Dana, Assistant Professor of Management at Yale, wrote a thought-provoking piece for the New York Times this past week.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This makes most in-person interviews almost useless when determining how a potential customer will react when alone and faced with the choice of using / buying the innovation. People want to please other people and are willing to bend the truth in order to do that.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Plans are useless, but planning is everything The quote just above is attributed to Eisenhower and sometimes to Churchill, but it doesn't really matter who said it. Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. The concept is true. Plans are vital, but they are ephemeral, here today and gone tomorrow. Do you have plans or planners?

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 12, 2019

Then you take each useless idea and see if it leads anywhere useful. Take your leading product or service and everyone has to describe a version which completely undermines or contradicts one of the main properties of the item. The more ridiculous the better. Like a silent disco. Dulux make white paint.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While an all-in-one system that can be controlled from a panel next to your door looks nice and is convenient, it’s also too easy for intruders to locate and destroy, rendering it useless in an emergency. You should also have a security system that uses a cellular radio — and not copper landlines — to report incidents.

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Kainexus

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can pick the best technology platform on the planet, but it is useless if people won't use it. They realize that the people closest to the production of value for the customer are the ones who are in the best position to identify and resolve problems. But not all improvement software rollouts are successful.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 20, 2019

The Maginot line proved useless. The Germans, aware of this flaw, advanced rapidly through the forest and across the river Meuse. They encircled and cut off the British and French forces in the north. The Allies were forced to retreat to Dunkirk where they were evacuated. France fell in a matter of days.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Why the MBTI test is useless in innovation programmes. This air cooling system for the slums uses plastic bottles and requires no electricity. Warren Buffet’s powerful “Two List” productivity tip for creative people. Why so many entrepreneurs often achieve nothing for weeks.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 12, 2016

What might appear to be a failed experiment or a strange but ultimately useless outcome can sometimes turn out to be the basis of a game-changing innovation. Think about these examples ….

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 10, 2021

Goodhart’s Law: factories redesigned their processes to make millions of nails which were so small they were almost useless. Soviet Union planners wanting to increase production of iron nails, so telling factories to produce as many nails as possible.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Accelerating or digitizing a poor structure or unnecessary process makes the useless even faster. What they need to do is to innovate how they work, how they structure and how they create value. Then, and only then, should they worry about layering in the "digital" part.

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Yet2

APRIL 11, 2022

yet2′ s dedicated OI portal team will review every submission filtering out the useless or dangerous, handle all communications with submitters, scrub all submissions to remove confidential information, and share only the most promising submissions with the client team for review.

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Leapfrogging

JULY 29, 2020

Sure, creating a dashboard is a start, but it’s useless unless you use it with your team. Without a dashboard that keeps your team’s KPIs front and center, it’s easy to veer off track. The best KPI dashboards provide real-time, visual status summaries of the most important KPIs, all in one place.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As if that doesn’t seem bad enough, Yuval Noah Harari, in his bestselling book Homo Deus, writes that “humans might become militarily and economically useless.” In 2013, a study at Oxford University found that 47% of jobs in the United States are likely to be replaced by robots over the next two decades.

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 14, 2022

The noise is made up of all of the ideas that never come to fruition, and the useless suggestions for problems that don’t matter and don’t create value. This latter use of the term is the one that best applies to innovation. In innovation, the signal is comprised of solutions that are implemented and create value.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 11, 2018

One useful “boring” feature that supports your core business is worth a million useless flashy ones. Yes, you can get truly ridiculous variations with a hundred tools. But how many of those tools will you use? And how many of them are genuinely useful? Embrace failure.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Just like a hammer is useless without someone to swing it, even cutting-edge technology conveys no advantage unless your team uses it in new and clever ways. Ironically, this has made the human approach to these problems all the more important. It’s often lost in the discussion of these trends that they’re just tools.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In 30 years of interviewing people for roles in fast-paced startup cultures, I’ve come to realize that the vast majority of standard interview questions are useless. Good luck with that.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 16, 2020

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless." - Darryl F. ." - Charles Darwin. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." - Henry Ford.

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InnovationLabs

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

An interesting question to consider is if a theory is useful or useless. In the case of this blog post, the question is more specific: Is a theory of innovation a useless abstraction, or an essential tool? Does theory make action more effective, or is it a needless diversion? The exceptionally wise business innovator and […].

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 20, 2021

Computers are useless. ." - Richard Saul Wurman. In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Bertrand Russell. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso. Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." - Voltaire.

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Idea to Value

JULY 26, 2017

Emotional relief: never feel old and useless again. Psychological: the only authentic tonic from the actual fountain of youth. Positive emotion: feel your youth restored instantly, radiate. Problem solving: feel like yourself at age 12, even at 70. Economic: for only $15.99 a month you can restore your youth.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Having the best AI writing assistant on the market is useless if you work for an ice cream company. Companies need a coherent strategy that tells innovation teams where to play or all those hackathons will continue to pump out great ideas that will never get funding by the organization.

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Leapfrogging

JULY 29, 2020

Sure, creating a dashboard is a start, but it’s useless unless you use it with your team. Without a dashboard that keeps your team’s KPIs front and center, it’s easy to veer off track. The best KPI dashboards provide real-time, visual status summaries of the most important KPIs, all in one place.

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InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Today Age of Abundance is a useless notion; the term is widely used […]. When for the first time was the original idea of the ‘age of curiosity, scarcity and abundance” published? It was right here in a syndicated column in 2005 and it was a very scarce notion.

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Leapfrogging

JULY 14, 2020

Sure, creating a dashboard is a start, but it’s useless unless you use it with your team. Without a dashboard that keeps your team’s KPIs front and center, it’s easy to veer off track. The best KPI dashboards provide real-time, visual status summaries of the most important KPIs, all in one place.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 2, 2022

For example, are "old" ideas always useless? You've been taught to use your time efficiently, to place bets only where there is a significant return on investment and winnowing out a list of any proposed alternatives is something we've perfected. What we often don't recognize are the fallacies that lie within the questions we ask.

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100%Open

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If we innovate with no clear problem statement we will end up with a wonderful new solution that is effectively useless in the real world. “If Problems are the start-point for effective innovation and design.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 13, 2016

If you ask the wrong question you will simply end up with useless answers. It’s essential to phrase your focus properly. Use these 5 guidelines to make sure your focus is razor sharp. Continue reading →

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Gasoline was just useless trash to oil companies until it was realized it could power a combustion engine, for example. Sometimes, a good idea that seems achievable isn’t. But you should have learned why it’s not workable, what the challenges are, and that in turn can open the door to more innovation.

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Mills-Scofield

AUGUST 15, 2016

Thoughts about New York, about being lost, about feeling useless, about feeling useful, about adventures, about learning, about healing, about loving, about everything and about nothing. Please read and reflect. " This post has no clear theme other than what’s been going on my head. Hope you enjoy the thought ramble :). ". “

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Even though you may be receiving a lot of applications for open positions, if the quality of the candidates is not up to your standards, you may end up wasting precious time sifting through piles of useless resumés. To make this process more efficient, HR managers must identify the sources that provide the best-suited candidates most often.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It’s useless at predicting trendlines in new batches of data. (I’m I’m being a little handwavey and metaphoric here, but you get my point.). Anyway, AI scientists have long used a technique to help avoid overfitting — they feed a bit of noise into the neural net while they’re training it.

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Linda Bernardi

APRIL 27, 2022

Pointless ads and offer blasts are useless old-school tactics. Imagine the possibilities once your data is harnessed for your increased enjoyment! Imagine your ability to discover things – at all levels – while also enjoying reduced prices for items you love. Almost all companies get hacked. Topping the list is the credit bureaus!)

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

From title companies and notaries in the real estate industry to high-powered lawyers who execute contracts, blockchain technology and its fully transparent peer-to-peer ledger system effectively renders some of those services useless, putting them out of business.

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