Idea helpers: ways to grow ideas
The happier twin brother of idea killers are idea growers. Things you can say in response to ideas to…
Category: Innovation
Idea killers: ways to stop ideas
In the creative thinking course I taught at the University of Washington, we spent time listing idea killers, statements…
The early days of dogfood
There’s a theory that everything we think is clever or new has been done before – well, in the…
Great managers of innovation?
I’m writing chapter 9 of 10 (so close!) this week – its focused on how dependent, or not, innovation…
Time’s best inventions of 2006
Although this list isn’t in a web friendly top ten format, it’s certainly interesting to see what the folks…
Book reviews: Engines of ingenuity & How Invention begins
Sometimes good books sneak up on you – you enjoy reading them, but their full value doesn’t surface until…
Good ideas/innovations that lost?
One myth that surfaces in innovation history is the faith that good ideas win: if a technology, product or…
This week in pm-clinic: Innovate or die
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Is innovation for innovation’s sake a good idea? I think not, but…
Start-up camp: Nov 2&3 Mountain View
I know a bunch of you readers are in start-ups, or hopefully soon will be – Well, here’s the…
How to make an innovative book? (help wanted)
It’d be daft to write a book about innovation without some effort to make the book itself an innovative…
Doodles, drafts and innovators
There’s a great online exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute, exploring the history of various innovations – focused on the…
Why innovation efforts fail
As I’m on the home stretch of finishing the first draft of the book, I’ve read nearly 100 books…
The product vision test
An old PM trick I learned years ago is that whenever you start something, it’s just as important to…
Why Gutenberg is overrated as an innovator
No, not Steven Guttenberg. The other one. Johann Gutenberg’s name appears on most Western lists of the most influential…
Innovation survey: results summary
Last month I ran an open survey on innovation to help with my book in progress. Nearly 100 people…
Report from FOO Camp ’06 [foocamp06]
Foo camp is an annual O’Reilly unconference event and I was fortunate enough to be there again for foocamp06.…
This week in ux-clinic: harvesting the idea farm
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: We’re early on a project and doing lots of prototypes and crazy…
This week in pm-clinic: The need for two faced managers
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: I manage a rapid prototyping team in for a major consumer software…
Last chance! Interview deadline EOD today (more prizes)
We’re almost there – thanks to many of you the interview count for the innovation book is now nearly…
What do you miss from the past?
One question that’s coming up in in writing the innovation book is this: when has an innovation taken away…