Archive for: February, 2016

Great innovation teams are driven by customer insights

in Innovation

Customer discovery never stops

If you look deeply at hundreds of examples of business innovation, an interesting pattern begins to emerge. Specifically, what we find is that an innovative idea came not from some inherent individual brilliance but from looking at the world from a fresh perspective; an alternate way of seeing things.

Innovators don’t pull ideas out of the air, rather they obsess about a particular challenge, ask questions and dig deep to discover insights. And one way innovators come to their insight is by understanding the unarticulated needs of people.…

A World Without Sleep

in Creativity, entrepreneurship, Podcast

what if you stopped sleeping

If you’ve ever pulled an all-nighter, you know you’re not yourself the next day. And perhaps you’ve even lamented the need for 8 hours of shut-eye. Imagine that you didn’t have to sleep. No more struggling to wake up in the morning to go to work.

It is no secret that sleeping is a big part of our lives, it’s essential. So essential that we could die if we stopped sleeping for a long amount of time. As ASAP Science explains, we need to sleep. …

Netflix’s culture is a prime example of one that isn’t afraid to reinvent itself

in Greatness, Innovation, Leadership

culture of innovation

We are in a constant state of becoming, and it’s not entirely obvious to anyone or any team that is starting out, and nobody tells you this in school, that we must reinvent ourselves.

Case in point Patty McCord, former Head of HR for Netflix and the person credited with creating their culture, believes that the ideal culture isn’t afraid to reinvent itself:…

How Do You Learn How To Learn? Learn From Learners

in Creativity, entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Uncategorized

learning how to learn

Are you learning as fast as the world is changing? A constant state of change requires a constant state of learning. Only a handful of companies, and people, cultivate learning as a skill.

Put simply:

Cultures of innovation = Cultures of learning

With that said, there is one skill that will always be relevant in the future: continuous learning.…

Digital Renaissance: Transforming your company for the digital economy

in Innovation, Podcast

digital transformationDigital technologies, powered by the internet, are disrupting every industry. According to Pierre Nanterme, CEO of Accenture, digital is the main reason just over half of the companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since the year 2000.

It’s safe to say that you’re either a digital business or a dead business.…

Twitter Is What You Make of It

in Innovation

TwitterThe end of Twitter? Nice title, but Twitter isn’t in trouble if it sticks to, and evolves on, what makes it essential.

Joshua Topolsky’s piece on the New Yorker triggered responses from various users pointing out why Twitter isn’t dead, what it could be, what it isn’t and some fact checking.

It really frustrates me that people keep comparing Twitter to Facebook, and that it’s failing because it’s business doesn’t look like Facebook’s. If everyone wants Twitter to be like Facebook, then Twitter has a long way to go and most likely is in trouble. But Twitter isn’t Facebook, and shouldn’t be Facebook.

That’s the fundamental problem with Twitter: it’s trying to be like other social networks.

Twitter is different, and that’s what makes it great. How so?…