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Three Steps to Make An Idea Map
A few post ago I mentioned a technique of condensing and displaying your organisation’s ideas on an Idea Map. An Idea Map is a great way to show your entire organisation the ideas that you are...
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How to Capture Innovation #6 – The Communicating Stage
By all accounts, childbirth can be a fairly traumatic process. However, thanks to improvements in medical technology and processes, the mortality rate of both mothers and children has plummeted in the...
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How to Capture Innovation #7 – The Creating Stage
It’s at this final stage of innovation that most people step back and give themselves a big pat on the back. They deserve it! Almost by definition – it is easier to stick with the same old processes...
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Six Hot Innovation Trends – Guest Post
Robert B. Tucker (Innovation Resource) is president of The Innovation Resource, and an internationally recognized leader in the field of innovation. Formerly an adjunct professor at the University of...
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How To Change Your Image of Innovation: AI, Pygmalion Effect & Innovation
During my studies last year, I was introduced to the methodology of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), and found it fascinating. Developed by David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva in 1987, AI is an approach...
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Positivity, Plants and Penalties – Innovative Insights
During the past weekend, I had the great pleasure of watching the All Blacks play England in a hard-hitting rugby match. Predictably, after the All Blacks scored the first try, the stadium was full...
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Three Innovation Lessons from the Christchurch Earthquake
In 2010 and 2011, Christchurch was rocked by a number of large earthquakes, with the February 22 quake taking a horrible toll. 185 people were killed, countless more were injured and over 10,000...
View ArticleFour Signs You’re Working Innovatively
Over the past few weeks I have been interviewing staff and members of a few organisations, in an attempt to discover more about what innovation means for them. It has been amazing to realise that...
View ArticleThere’s No “I” In Innovation
I’ve recently been teaching innovation and entrepreneurship lessons to some first year business students. It has been fascinating to see the ideas and plans they have dreamt up, with some truly unique...
View ArticleThree Transformations the News Media Must Embrace
A few days ago, I logged on to a popular New Zealand news-site – along with thousands of other Kiwis – to keep up-to-date about the horrific shooting in Ashburton. However, after I had read the latest,...
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The Lazy Innovator
I’ve been reading Daniel Kahneman’s excellent work ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’. There’s a wealth of lessons for innovators to learn from his thoughts but one of his key findings is particularly...
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The Two Starting Postures of Innovation
As I mentioned in the previous post, the past few months has been full of analysing screeds of data and writing pages of explanation for my thesis on innovation and leadership. All up, I interviewed...
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