Those of us in the innovation space know that to be creative, you need to be very diverse in your education and life experiences. Not only as a person, but also as an organization.
Put simply, diversity breeds breakthroughs.…
Tag Archives: Innovation
Innovation must reads of the week: Is innovation dead?
- Is Innovation Dead — Or Doing Just Fine, Thank You? – Time.com
- How fast should you innovate? by Follow @ovoinnovation
- What Customers Want (Except When They Don’t) by Follow @frogdesign
- 10 mental traits of truly innovative leaders by Follow @geekwire
- 7 Reasons Big Companies Can’t Build Strong Relationships for Innovation by Follow @lindegaard
If you like these links, check out all the previous “Innovation Must Reads of the Week“. And don’t forget to Follow @jorgebarba
When should you begin trend-spotting?
in Innovation, Questions, Strategy
Most of the Innovation Consultants I know, advice businesses on doing trend-spotting as part of the innovation process. I also insist on doing the same because like creative thinking, I believe trendspotting isn’t a one time activity.
It is not a “communicate and forget it” activity. It is an ongoing activity.…
Innovation Must Reads of the week: The Hierarchy of Innovation
- What Your Innovators Want You to Know – HBR
- The Myths That Prevent Change – HBR
- Before branding subcategory creating innovations ask four questions by Follow @davidaaker
- The rise of idea festivals – Financial Times
- The hierarchy of innovation – David Carr
If you like these links, check out all the earlier “Innovation Must Reads of the Week“. And don’t forget to Follow @jorgebarba
What my Mom taught me about questioning assumptions
in Innovation
WTF is this? Do you really need it? Why?
My Mom taught me to be neat. To keep things clean and organized. And for the most part, I’m like her. But one place where those lessons don’t take effect is in my propensity to keep every single printed receipt of things I buy. Not only that, but notes, biz cards, un-opened mail, and everything else that is of paper form. I keep them. And they just add up to a pile of nothing. It’s almost like I collect them unconsciously.
I still have the receipt from the first Playstation. Crazy! I just can’t help myself to throw them away.
And no, it’s not what you think. I don’t keep receipts because I count every single penny. I’m not a stickler with money. It’s something else.
Because of this, every now and then when my mom comes over to check up on me, she wipes me clean! She always ends up asking me the same question over and over: Do you really need this? If I answer yes, she’ll then ask “why?”.
And it goes on, over and over again.…
Innovation must reads of the week: Collaboration and innovation go hand-in-hand
- Four Strategies for Staying Relevant by Follow @davidaaker
- Why We Can’t See What’s Right in Front of Us by Follow @harvardbiz
- The Creative Benefits Of Exploring The Uncomfortable by Follow @fastcocreate
- Want to innovate? Develop top leaders – CBS News
- Five Factors that drive the need for more innovation by Follow @ovoinnovation
If you like these links, check out all the earlier “Innovation Must Reads of the Week“. And don’t forget to Follow @jorgebarba
8 Lessons from Startup Weekend Tijuana
in Innovation
Startup Weekend Tijuana is in the books.
This past weekend was fast paced and intense. Exciting. Almost 50 participants, 25 ideas, 8 projects and 3 winners. Two of them left the event with seed capital.
Here are the projects:
- WachaBache. A mobile application to crowdsource the reporting of streets that have holes and make driving a miserable experience.
- Indueducation. A web service that offers leading indicators to help the government with academic decision making.
- Eventum. A community for public social events.
- Cruzas. A mobile application that shows indicators of when it is a good time to cross the border to San Diego.
- Happy Birthday 2 me. A web service to help you organize your birthday and take advantage of local business offers.
- Congresoplon. Monitoring the productivity of Congress and its participants.
- Pimiento. Mobile app that suggests cooking recipes based on the ingredients that you have in your home.
- Instapart. Find the auto part your are looking for in real-time.
And the winners were:
- Instapart
- Cruzas
- Eventum
Great job guys.…