The Power of Anomaly
There are whole industries, such as venture capital, that are currently organized around the belief that innovation is essentially a game of playing the odds. But it’s time to topple that tired paradigm. I’ve spent twenty years gathering evidence so that you can put your time, energy, and resources into creating products and services that you can p... See more
Clayton M. Christensen • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
The possibilities for use cases of a living foresight model become endless with structured analytics. Imagine anticipating emergent genres for film producers, preemptively knowing which rights to secure, or identifying talent and untapped audiences. In the realm of industrial design, a living foresight model serves as a catalyst
for innovation, prov
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recombine with other ideas, when hunches can stumble across other hunches that successfully fill in their blanks, may seem like an obvious truth, but the strange fact is that a great deal of the past two centuries of legal and folk wisdom about innovation has pursued the exact opposite argument, building walls between ideas, keeping them from the k
... See moreSteven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
The challenge to being ahead of the trend—which I have been for most of my life—is to find a way to start a dialogue with the consumer. Perhaps you want to provide a solution to a problem they don't yet know exists. So you need to ask: how does this problem touch their lives and what they care about? Solving that problem can be difficult, time-cons
... See moreDavid Mattin • Trend-Driven Innovation
According to his findings, innovative solutions require two steps: first, seeing an infrequently noticed, ambiguous feature, and second, building a solution based on that feature.
Debra Kaye • Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovation
Breakthrough insights come from living in the future and tinkering directly with what’s new about it—not by having passing ideas about it from a distant vantage point
Mike Maples • 🔮 Living in the future
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For any business person, "Me too' won't do" feels right intuitively. Action, creation, risk-these lie at the root of invention. Business value does not start with bloodless analytics. Passion, monomania and domain mastery fuel invention and so are central. The compelling continuing contribution of founders demonstrates this. Planning rare
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