Innovation is a word at the tip of almost every CEO’s lips. However, despite the best of intentions, many organisations are killing innovation. There are several issues that these organisations have in common. Leaders don’t walk the talk While the majority of CEOs and their leadership teams talk about innovation, many unfortunately don’t doRead more
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In 1903, Orville Wright, with his brother Wilbur watching from below, piloted history’s first ever powered, manned flight. That singular flight completely changed the course of history. There are now over 100,000 commercial flights in the air each day…(in fact I am writing from one now!). But the Wright Brothers weren’t only remarkable in havingRead more
Christine here. Nice to e-meet you all! While I’m an Innovation Consultant in Melbourne, spreading the Lean Startup message (amongst other methodologies), my brother Cameron, is living Lean Startup in his Seattle-based games company, Against Gravity. Apart from being one of my favourite people on earth, he also recently managed to release one of theRead more
‘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
Having the title ‘Inventiologist’ has a habit of getting you into some interesting conversations about how the Inventium crew help make innovation tangible, repeatable and profitable. One of the most common things I hear early on in these conversations is, “oh, so you help companies come up with ideas”. My favourite part of these chatsRead more
For most organisations, when it comes to the back end of the innovation process, one of the areas where we see an enormous opportunity for improvement is at the ‘prototyping’ phase. Prototyping isn’t always about building a product prototype; rather, it is a step in the process where we test our assumptions and hypotheses before we start ‘full blown’Read more
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me if I’d be interested, if she organised it, in going to see a particular movie with our broader group of friends. I said that I thought it sounded like a great idea and that she could “count me in!” A week later she calledRead more