Digital Tonto

APRIL 14, 2024

One of the things that I’ve learned in over two decades researching innovation, transformation and change is that things that change the world always arrive out of context, for the simple reason that the world hasn’t changed yet. They need ecosystems to make an impact on the world. Ideas start out feeble, weak and alone.

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Viima

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

One of the questions we often get asked about is how to actually “make ideas happen”. Most of the people asking this are ones we’ve just started working with, and who’ve already gathered lots of great ideas and are now finding it slightly overwhelming to think about what to do with them.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Sometimes, innovation teams will attempt to show fake success in order to hide their real struggles. As a result, a Potemkin village refers to something which is just a facade, to make something look more successful than it is in reality. Potemkin Villages and fake innovation. It is like performing innovation theatre.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 13, 2022

However, in the last 500 years only 1,909 confirmed shark attacks occurred worldwide (as of the 2015 research paper ); of the 737 that happened in the United States, only 38 people died in total. Interestingly, this is just as likely for real events as it is for events which people were asked to imagine happening.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 12, 2023

A few weeks ago I was listen to an excellent episode of the Innovation Show podcast , with guest Annie Duke. It was about her new book “ Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away “ , and there was one topic they spoke about which really stuck with me when thinking about innovation projects.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 26, 2023

One of the classic pieces of research into the topic asks people in a couple or group to estimate what their own personal contribution was to something happening. There was another study in 1989 which found that some partners will overstate how much of a positive contribution their partner makes though.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 1, 2021

The phrase Hindsight is 20/20 usually refers to the fact that it is usually easier to analyse and evaluate events after they have already happened, rather than when you’re in the middle of them. It actually changes the memories of what people remember happening in the past when they first encountered.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 12, 2023

Have you ever wondered why sometimes after seeing or experiencing something for the first time, you end up seeing it happening everywhere? It is the tendency to notice something more often after noticing it for the first time, leading to the belief that in reality it happens more often.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This is especially true of creative and innovative work. It takes time to design a concept, test it with the market , make changes and craft a compelling offer. Additional resources do not necessarily make this happen faster. So when it comes to innovation projects, sometimes one mother is enough for a baby idea.

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Digital Tonto

MARCH 26, 2023

At any given time there are a myriad of exciting possibilities, but very few pan out and even the ones that do usually take decades to make an impact. Digital technology is a great example of how this happens. It’s the nodes that grab attention, but the networks that make things happen.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 6, 2022

Nostalgia can be a powerful force preventing innovation in companies. After all, people often would rather keep the status quo than run the risk of changing something while being unsure that the change will make things better. People seem to remember things as more positive than they were in reality at the time they happened.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Not just because we happen to have enough frequent flyer points with one airline to fly around the world, but instead because of how they completely changed the business model of airlines. If you have any interest in understanding business model innovation , I highly recommend you watch this video (above on the blog) to see what I mean.

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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. This broke my heart and immediately made me realise why this company would continue to fail in its innovation efforts.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 31, 2022

I’m making good progress for the 24th of Feb reveal date, but today I wanted to take you back in time to show you where it all began. It became clear that while most companies said they wanted to innovate and be disruptive, what they actually wanted was to play it safe and do what other companies were doing.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Many innovators and creatives are shocked when they finally release their new idea into the world, and instead of a storm of new customers rushing to their door, they get… … nothing. After all, they have worked for weeks, months, sometimes years to make their idea happen. They have put their heart and soul into it.

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TechEmpower Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2023

No good innovator turns down advice! Startup founders make decisions on a daily basis – significant decisions that will have lasting impact on their business. The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 30, 2021

This is a useful tool in finding reasons for manufacturing issues, customer service issues, and opportunities to innovate your offering in new ways. First, you find a problem you want to solve (a great start for an innovation project). Just make sure to stay unbiased and analytical when asking why.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The need for transformational innovation. Transformational innovation is increasingly needed to cope with the change needed in many organizations to find a new or repositioned value proposition. Transformational innovation is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, to achieve.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

So this is why I love his blunt view on what it takes for a new consensus to build around radically new, creative ideas: A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Is it possible to exhaust yourself by making decisions? In a 2018 research study by Sjåstad and Baumeister , the researchers wanted to see what would happen to someone’s willingness to think about the future before or after they had been forced to make hard decisions. According to research, yes it is.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 21, 2020

Gary Pisano, a Harvard Business School Professor, wrote an excellent article in HBR last year on the hard realities of what innovative company cultures actually look like, which I highly recommend every aspiring innovator to read. Innovative company cultures are not all fun and games”. The bottom line? Gary Pisano.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Are we appreciating that there is a fundamental change happening, and we have to have an increased sustainability focus, as a much larger part of our thinking in the future? Presently we drive efficiency and effectiveness but progressively into a crisis of our own making. Sustainable innovation needs to shift our thinking.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

Where should innovation resources actually exist in an organisation? It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. After all, if innovation is so important, should it not get its own department? Companies that survive do both.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 13, 2022

An innovation is only valuable if the customer perceives value in it. And for this to happen, the customer needs to feel like the solution is addressing some sort of problem or job to be done which they have. Many innovations never make it past this stage and get stuck in the innovation valley of death.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I'm diverging a bit from my normal focus on innovation and strategy to write a brief piece on planning. You see, planning is vital for strategy and for innovation, and is so ubiquitous that no one in corporate America believes that they lack for planning. Likewise, planning is important for strategy.

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Idea to Value

MAY 26, 2021

Are they lying, or is there something unconscious which is happening? Why is it that while so many companies say they want to encourage creativity, they actually end up rejecting it? The results were fascinating.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 29, 2021

In some especially nefarious situations, these companies may be updating their products through software even after you bought them, in order to make the performance worse. Check out the video at the top of this article for some amazing insights into how this happened in the very symbol of innovation for many people: The lightbulb industry.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 15, 2023

GUEST POST from Dennis Stauffer Innovators are those who push themselves to move from what’s currently possible to what they hope will become possible—if they can make it happen. Doing that means crossing the space—that possibility space—between the two.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Anchoring is a process by which people are influenced by a piece of information given to them just before they are asked to make a judgement. It refers to our tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information we receive when making a decision, even if that information is irrelevant or of little value.

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TechEmpower Innovation

JULY 31, 2023

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. And most importantly, how does it make money? If you can demonstrate that your CAC and CLV numbers work as expected, then you’ve proven you can make money. We need to make sure we have these numbers.

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Idea to Value

MAY 17, 2021

I believe that Psychological Safety is one of the most important capabilities a team can have to achieve high innovation performance. What difference does it make in the world. When people understand what the work achieves, it gives them more of a motivation to achieve it, and accountability in making sure it happens.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 24, 2023

Well, there is a powerful psychological phenomenon which means that if someone is part of a group where there is a stereotype that they will underperform or be bad at a task, then that stereotype will actually make them perform worse. And as we known, innovation fails at the handover. How is this possible?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

The needs of Innovation Coherence. Innovation often fails to align with strategic needs. They are not drawn into the need for change and its implications from an innovative perspective. Building our capacity to innovate needs understanding and reflects the organization’s business activities.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2020

Yet the very best thing is to encourage connected minds for value-creating opportunities and knowledge sharing for innovation to flow across an organization. This gaining of continuous knowledge encourages constant learning and this has a positive feedback cycle as it builds the capacities and capabilities for future innovation activity.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 3, 2022

But most changes in the brain happen on a much smaller scale. There are also much shorter changes in the brain happening between neurons all the time , often lasting only between a few milliseconds and a few minutes. One of the ways that neuroplasticity works is through a process called Long-Term Potentiation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2020

Innovation anxiety can keep your team from doing its best. This principle is as true of innovation as everything else. . Here’s how to fight “innovation anxiety.” What Is Innovation Anxiety? On one level, innovation anxiety is easy to understand. It’s not difficult to see what happened.

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