Work Backward to Drive Innovation Forward
Here’s how Amazon defines the ideal customer experience and then works backward to create it. Everyone wants to uncover…
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Small Experiments for Big Ideas
As the co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman once said that trying to innovate and scale a business quickly requires you…
Organize Innovation to Fit Your Strategy & Culture
Companies don’t fail at innovation due to lack of ideas. They often don’t create the right innovation structure to implement…
Forget Brainstorming – Use PAINstorming for breakthrough innovation
Most brainstorms fall far short of breakthroughs. Painstorming provides the focus and insight to leapfrog to the next big thing.…
Disruptive Innovation is NOT a Business Strategy
Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Stop trying to disrupt. Start changing…
Forget Your Plan. Create a Strategy Map.
Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal…
Turn Overwhelming Data into New Insight to Make Strategic Decisions
Focused on insight, not numbers Planning for next year is well under way. Because of unprecedented uncertainty, there’s a strong…
Push Thinking & Get Innovation Using this Little-Known Children’s Game
Fifty years ago, a little-known children’s book introduced the “SCAMPER” model as way to help teachers foster creativity in their classrooms. It’s an amazingly…
Do You Have Your 2022 Strategy Uncertainty Map?
All opportunities have uncertainty. Use a map to navigate it. Let’s kick-off 2022 with a useful tool. Here’s the downloadable…
Use the Saturate and Group Tool to Ramp Up Your Design Thinking
Over the last 25 years, I have led hundreds of design thinking sessions for international organizations and startups including brands like Red…