Blog
In these posts I try and challenge, stretch and inspire new ideas & conversations.
To start innovating you need a why innovate story
Innovation involves change and this can be difficult. It is for this reason that leaders need to craft a compelling why innovate story.
How to enhance innovation through creative conversations*
Innovation emerges from having numerous and daily creative conversations. Here is how to do it.
Two big ways to drive revenue growth *
In these tough times it is hard to grow the revenue line. Here are two ways.
How to overcome the fear of failure *
Innovation depends on trial and error and sometimes failure. Yet most people have a fear of failure — here’s how to overcome this.
Instead of Brainstorming — try Blitzing!
Here’s how to overcome the major problem with Brainstorming. Try Blitzing — it’s faster, more creative and energizing.
Want to unlock greater creativity? Ask a different question.
Leaders and managers often get ‘stuck’ by always defining the problem in the same way. Here is a way of escaping this.
What are the 6 innovation accelerators*?
Rather than focussing on the barriers to innovation, a more productive strategy is to leverage the accelerators.
A more insightful way of conducting competition analysis
Competition Analysis is usually reactive. Here is a more dynamic and proactive way of anticipating what your competitor might do next.
How to develop an active innovation mindset
I would imagine most leaders would like to see more and better innovation and growth in their business. Nothing revolutionary with this observation. But how to bring this about?
From my experience there are two ways:
Lets call it passive vs active innovation.