Innovation

The Power of Asking The (Right) Question

You have heard the old story of Henry Ford stating that “if I had asked people what they…

Learnings From Cooking (And German Sayings)

There is a saying in German which finds its roots in cooking: “Es wird nichts so…

Transform Your Company Into a Future That Is Unfolding Before You

The most unusual question…

The story goes something like this: Sometime in the earlier part of the 1980s, while Toto’s enduring hit…

Explorers, Pioneers and Settlers

Over the holidays — Happy New Year Everybody! — I spent time to review the research we have been doing…

The Value of Failure

New Value is a Function of Failure, not Success.

I recently stumbled across this sentence. It’s the perfect encapsulation of how to create new value. Note that this is about new value specifically, not value in general. There is, of course, plenty of value being…

Iterate, iterate, iterate

By now it is startup and innovation project folklore that if you are not sufficiently embarrassed by the first version of your product, you have launched too late (apparently LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman said this first). This catchy piece of advice goes well with a tasty serving…