Have you ever attended an event and found yourself thinking: I can’t believe I’m actually here? That’s exactly what I was thinking on a recent Saturday evening. I was asked to represent Compuware and welcome an audience of leading executives, artists, politicians and jurists to the Dr. Arthur L. Johnson Memorial Lecture that took place [...]
Smile!
I’m reading one of the most innovative books I’ve read in a long time – Stephen King’s 11/22/63. It’s about a man who travels back in time from 2011 to try to stop the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But that only begins to touch upon the plot of this very complex and extremely [...]
Enabling Innovation Through Tiny Efficiencies
Innovation doesn’t have to come in huge packages. To reflect back on the difference in Incremental versus Radical Innovation from Dani’s post a few months ago, innovation doesn’t necessarily have to cost money, take years to develop, slice my bread or involve the patent office. The only absolute requirement for any innovation is the birth [...]
The Launch of iDay
In my previous life, I had the privilege of helping to launch all kinds of vehicles: big ones, small ones, sporty ones, trucky ones, domestic ones, foreign ones – you name it. This week, I had the opportunity to help launch something entirely different. A day. More specifically: Innovation Day, or as we like to [...]
The Value of Value
I recently worked with Peter Karmanos, Jr. on a speech he delivered to an organization of business leaders here in Detroit. One of the points he made was this: “The thing that you should be worrying about the most is whether every single one of your customers is getting real value from what they’re doing [...]
The Art of “Piling On”
We recently launched a new idea-sharing function on Compuware’s internal employee communications portal. The purpose is to provide employees with an easy and convenient way to post their own ideas … about anything, really … and to comment on ideas posted by others. I call this commenting process “piling on.” Let me explain what I [...]
Losing Sucks
I don’t honestly think of myself as a loser, but I have done my share of losing. I’ve lost baseball games, swimming races, tennis matches, and countless games of Scrabble; Win, Lose or Draw; Cranium; Monopoly – even Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders. And very little upsets me more than getting the Final Jeopardy [...]
Beware the Crane Operator!
Innovation doesn’t stop with the generation of an idea. In fact, I don’t think that innovation ends until the idea is actually executed – until it’s performed, printed, heard, read or viewed. Further, a great idea with mediocre execution becomes a mediocre idea. But a lousy idea with great execution remains a lousy idea. That [...]
Innovation 101: The Innovation Value Chain
Welcome back to Innovation 101. In previous posts I have explored how innovation is a process that can be managed in organizations. Today I will talk about how innovations are created through such processes and how the innovation value-add is being generated. Understanding how innovation value is added will help you manage the innovation process [...]
How In the World Did We Do It?
We’ve all had the experience of listening as an older friend or relative talked about how things “used to be in the old days.” Before television … when we sat around listening to the radio. Before remote controls … when we actually had to walk across the room to change channels. (Actually, my father had [...]
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