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Must read innovation stories of the week: Mental models determine business models

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Jorge

Much like humans have mental models that determine their beliefs about how the world works, businesses have business models that do the same. And just how us humans get stuck in our own thoughts if we don’t feed ourselves new experiences, business models become irrelevant when they don’t evolve.

and this means you have to start with the culture in your organization and how they view the world. You need to work on the questioning assumptions your culture has about how the world works so it can start thinking about how it can work better for you.

. Want a new business model? Check your mental model first.

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Must read innovation stories of the week: A culture of innovation starts with us

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Jorge

Any change we want to see in ANY domain starts with the man in the mirror:

 

I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change

 

Guess who said that…

 

 

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Must read innovation stories of the week: Getting it done

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Jorge

It was an ‘innovation packed’ week that had everything starting from making excuses, ideating around small ideas, how to get it done, popular tools to use to tackle challenges and how to test your ideas. Pretty good eh!

 

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Must read innovation stories of the week: What are you the most at?

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Jorge

You wont stand out from the crowd if you keep playing by the same old rules as everyone else in your market. Are you the most of anything?

 

 

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Must read innovation stories of the week: Make new mistakes

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Jorge

Make new mistakes? Yes, that’s right. If you always follow the tried and true, what worked before, being right, always having the same answer then you’ll never come up with anything original. To foster a culture of innovation you need to go off the same road you’ve always been walking in and if you feel a certain ‘fear’ that it’s not the best thing to do, then you’ll know you are on the right path because it means you don’t know what might happen.

Have the .

 

To achieve the impossible we must first try the impossible which is letting go of what worked before and trying something new.

 

 

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Must read innovation stories of the week: Dare to question the status quo

Posted on November 28, 2009 by Jorge

Nothing is ever set in stone.

The status quo (how things are ‘normally done’) is usually something that is taken for granted like a religion, it makes people feel safe because it becomes something very predictable. As we grow older this natural tendency to conform and comply to set behaviors becomes worse because we need life to be more predictable, but the truth is we live in a world that’s in constant flux where nothing ever stays the same.

To counter this we must call on our inner child (yes we all have it and it’s still there). As a child everything was to be discovered, questioning the world around them is something very natural. We never stopped asking ‘WHY’.

Do you know It’s because of their never ending attempt to getting to the truth.

And just like a kid to whom everything is new, we too must regain our sense of wonder by questioning how the world is supposed to work. If we truly want to change the world we have to questions the status quo.

When was the last time you dared question the status quo?

 

 

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Must read innovation stories of the week: Can a successful innovation be predicted? Yes

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Jorge

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According to Phil Koos, by being aware of changing consumer needs innovation can be predicted.

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Great innovation builds on what comes before it and does not require people to make radical changes in beliefs or behavior. What often looks like breakthrough innovation is actually a small advance or twist on an established idea. That the change is evolutionary, however, doesn’t keep its impact from being revolutionary. Monitoring market evolution across the globe over time reveals patterns consistent across categories and markets. Consumer needs evolve in predictable ways. There are waves of successful mass-market innovation that mirror a natural evolution in consumer needs.

 

 

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Body Armour trailer

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