‘I’ve seriously just come up with the next golden egg. It’s going to be as popular as Facebook and as disruptive as Uber.’ Have you heard a friend say this before? Or maybe you’ve had your own ‘eureka’ moment for the next disruptive innovation. If so, hopefully you’ve also taken the time to identify yourRead more
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Can you guess who said that “if you just listen to (customers)…they will misguide more than guide you”? Why, none other than our favourite disruptive innovation thought leader, Clayton Christensen. He explained in this technology report that customers are less articulate when assessing larger impact innovations, thus we need to be careful with how theyRead more
We all accept that failure is an inevitable part of innovation and to become a truly innovative company we must become comfortable with failure. However, there still exists, and understandably so, a stigma around the dreaded f-word. I was speaking with a client last week and he was telling me about a presentation he wasRead more
A common concern that gets raised when I help clients during experimentation and prototyping in the field is, “but what if our competitors find out about what we are doing and STEAL our idea?!”. I’m always worried when I hear this type of thinking because it activates a prevention focus and a motivation to avoidRead more
At Inventium, we frequently boast about that fact that last year, Inventium was awarded the BRW Client Choice Award for “Best Management Consultancy”. We were up against the “big guys” such as PWC and Ernst & Young, so we were pretty stoked at this win. And the win was pretty exciting for us because oneRead more