We need more women entrepreneurs. A report by the Kaufmann Foundation found that only 3% of technology start-ups are led by women.
Are You Playing Too Safe? Review Your Innovation Portfolio.
Your innovation profile should balance risk and reward and it should play to your strengths and resources.
Your innovation profile should balance risk and reward and it should play to your strengths and resources.
Fail Often, Fail Cheap and Speed up Your Innovation Approval Process
Draw a flow chart diagram of your organisation’s approval process for innovations. Pick an example for a theoretical new idea.
Draw a flow chart diagram of your organisation’s approval process for innovations. Pick an example for a theoretical new idea.
Remarkable Words Make Great Puzzles
Des MacHale and I have put together a word puzzle book that contains some great puzzles about remarkable words.
Des MacHale and I have put together a word puzzle book that contains some great puzzles about remarkable words.
Innovation in the Public Sector – Hard to Do but Essential
Staff do not consider they have an incentive to voice innovative ideas and take on the risks associated with developing them.
Staff do not consider they have an incentive to voice innovative ideas and take on the risks associated with developing them.
Boost Your Career by Becoming an Ideas Carrier
Most people are happy to open up about the business issues they face.
Most people are happy to open up about the business issues they face.
Six Causes of Failure for Innovation Teams
Once you have identified a great idea for a new product or service innovation what do you do?
Once you have identified a great idea for a new product or service innovation what do you do?
Children Need a Challenge – A Personal Story
I went to a Catholic boys grammar school in Blackpool in the North of England. In my first year in the senior school I was a nerdy kid, with spectacles and short trousers.
I went to a Catholic boys grammar school in Blackpool in the North of England. In my first year in the senior school I was a nerdy kid, with spectacles and short trousers.
Make Email Your Servant Not Your Master
Let’s be clear. Your email is not your work; it is simply a tool to help you do your work. But like any tool it can be ineffective or even dangerous when used wrongly.
Let’s be clear. Your email is not your work; it is simply a tool to help you do your work. But like any tool it can be ineffective or even dangerous when used wrongly.
A Lateral Music Album
In 2014 Vulfpeck released an album called Sleepify. It contained 10 silent tracks each of about 31 seconds.
In 2014 Vulfpeck released an album called Sleepify. It contained 10 silent tracks each of about 31 seconds.
How Can You Measure Your Innovation? What Are the Best Metrics?
How can you measure how well your organization is doing with innovation? What metrics can you use? Most corporations find it difficult to measure innovation in any satisfactory way.
How can you measure how well your organization is doing with innovation? What metrics can you use? Most corporations find it difficult to measure innovation in any satisfactory way.
Nine Great Ways to Become a Very Boring Person
Drink a lot, eat a lot and take very little exercise.
Drink a lot, eat a lot and take very little exercise.
Want to Remember a List of Items? Try Taking a Virtual Journey
You take an imaginary journey around a familiar route – say your house or road – and you attach the things you want to remember to the places along the way.
You take an imaginary journey around a familiar route – say your house or road – and you attach the things you want to remember to the places along the way.
Adopt an Idea From Elsewhere and Adapt it for Your Business
Lateral thinking is about finding new ways to solve problems. It is very likely that the current problem you face at work today has been faced and solved by other people.
Lateral thinking is about finding new ways to solve problems. It is very likely that the current problem you face at work today has been faced and solved by other people.
Why Does the Innovator Have Such an Odd Body?
Successful innovators and entrepreneurs need big hearts and smart brains. But that is not all.
Successful innovators and entrepreneurs need big hearts and smart brains. But that is not all.
Many Great Business Innovations Started as New Ways of Reaching Customers
Instead of finding a new product or a new market try looking for a new route to an existing market.
Instead of finding a new product or a new market try looking for a new route to an existing market.