Getting Perspective on Your Business Model Innovation
To succeed at business model innovation, we need outside perspectives to bounce ideas off of and to challenge us.
Data Mining: How to Focus Your Analytics
Data mining can swallow you in a void of ones and zeros. Here’s how to break through the haze and find the most useful information.
Attracting Talent to Innovation Projects
Attracting talent to your innovation project means thinking of potential teammates as customers and writing a value proposition that targets them.
Digital Transformation vs. Exponential Transformation
Taking your company through a digital transformation isn’t going to turn it into the next Google. What you want is exponential transformation.
A Child’s MVP, or How Not to Build a Murderbot
What I learned from my kids about innovation, and how lean parenting made me a better dad.
Engines of Growth: What Is a Retention Rate?
Understanding the role of customer retention as an engine of growth.
Strategy Is a Verb
Fixed plans are static. It’s better to strategize. A good innovation program is built on a flexible strategy and strong tactical knowledge.
Advice to an Innovation Board: Agree to Disagree
Disagreeing on a project is a sign of a healthy Innovation Board. So is agreeing to move forward with a plan that not everyone supports.
Early Decisions Are Better Than Later
Is it better to make early decisions with partial information or late decisions with all the facts? Good innovation governance is decisive.