Here’s how to find new ideas

Here’s how to find new ideas

Don’t wait for new ideas to emerge – go and search for them! One of my favourite and most popular aspects of my creative thinking, speed thinking and innovation workshops and courses are the field visits. This is where I ask the group to visit say a...
How to Think Big

How to Think Big

Here are 3 ways to Think Big I just read an ad about a new innovation position with a big company. In the ad which was filled with lots of awesome words, was a description of the person they were looking for: We need someone who can think big … This started me...
Is the Lean Startup approach – Creative?

Is the Lean Startup approach – Creative?

What I like about the Lean Startup approach The Lean Startup approach or movement has many aspects which I like. – there is an emphasis on the customer rather than just the technology – having early consumer feedback is invaluable – the idea of...
Beyond incremental innovation to reinvention

Beyond incremental innovation to reinvention

What is reinvention? Leaders often ask me what is the difference between innovation, reinvention and disruption? Sometimes you just need a good analogy to explain a concept. Lets imagine that you have just purchased a new home. You have 4 options: 1. No nothing and...
How to prevent disruptive innovation

How to prevent disruptive innovation

Strategy 1 – Become more like a Startup This post is for any manager or leader in an established organisation that might face the threat of disruptive innovation. Which is nearly every industry. But this begs the question, what can a leader do to prevent being...

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