February 2010

Innovate like a three year old:
Why you should always ask why

In a previous post about Innovation Lessons from Childhood, I wrote about some of the new product innovation lessons we learned while we were in kindergarten. That included focusing on one task at a time and eliminating multi-tasking. But there’s more childhood can teach us about innovation. One little question, a favorite of children the [...]

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Avatar: A lesson in managing innovation risk

Who would have guessed that a movie about blue aliens could teach us anything about new product innovation? Of course, I’m not talking about the movie itself, but the story of how it was made – something that was chronicled in a recent Business Week article – King of the World (Again) James Cameron, the [...]

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5 rules for growth – Is a disruptive innovation strategy right for your business?

Disruptive Innovation is one of the most over-used terms in business today—and it’s rarely used correctly. But how the term is used is not what’s important. Instead, we’ll focus on whether disruption is the right innovation strategy for your company or whether a sustaining approach is more appropriate. Disruptive Innovation, a term coined by Clayton [...]

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