Reminder: interview deadline this friday
So far more than 40 of you have taken a few minutes to add your thoughts to mine for…
Category: Innovation
The start-up management inflection point
One common pattern I’ve seen with small tech companies is how their initial success by focusing on self-driven engineering…
Innovators wanted: get interviewed in a book
I’ve done nearly 20 interviews so far for my next book, and I need more. To quicken the pace…
Who holds the first U.S. patent?
The history of innovation has many crazy tales – the patent office is involved in many. In 1836 the…
How skunkworks got its name
The history of innovation has many legends, some of which hold more truth than others. The legend of Skunkworks,…
New coke: an innovation case study
There was a report today of Coke employees selling trade secrets, which reminded me of the New coke saga,…
What innovation means: a short report
[Post updated: August 2015. Also see the best definition of innovation] The word innovation is used in so many different…
The 3 People In a Room Test
Does your head hurt when you read business books? It shouldn’t. I rarely read business books anymore since they’re…
Book research help: rate of tech adoption
It’s a long shot on a holiday weekend here in the U.S., but I’m trying to find good sources…
More on preventing innovation
From Tyler Blain, the Top ten tips on preventing innovation: His list goes further than mine in cynicism, in…
The Power to Stop Innovation
As part of the research behind The Myths of Innovation, I read a tall stack of books with the…
Three great machines and innovation limitation
I’ve owned only three great machines – three devices built so well that they not only lasted more than…
The top 100 most innovative companies (BW)
BusinessWeek Online has just posted their top 100 list. The rankings were determined by votes from 1000 executives from…
The next book: an invitation
The next book I’m writing is about innovation: how and why new ideas develop the way they do. I’ve…
WSJ Innovation awards – nominations open
Whenever a major magazine or paper lists their innovations of the year, I always wonder how they came up…