by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Ideas, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The fourth quadrant is Johnson’s way of categorizing ideas that came from networks of people working without a specific market-incentive to create an idea. Things like radar, liquid-filled rockets and RND were all discovered in this manner. He says there are a lot...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Ideas, Innovation, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The final chapter of the book is called “The Fourth Quadrant.” Sounds kind of mysterious, right? What is the fourth quadrant and why is it important? In short, Johnson categorizes inventions into 4 quadrants and shows that a lot of them are happening in a way that...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Uncategorized, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
Platforms enable other ideas and products by providing an existing infrastructure. Software languages are platforms in that they enable you to do incredible things. WordPress is a platform technology, because here I am creating a website and I have an pretty damn...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Uncategorized, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
A platform, in the product development world, is a difficult term to define. I know this because I’m trying to do it right now. It’s very difficult to not use the word “platform” in the definition of the word platform. I’m going to revert to one of Johnson’s examples...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Ideas, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
Here’s a short and sweet summary for Exaptation. Great ideas can have multiple applications. Be on the lookout for solutions that are already out there, hiding in plain sight, just yet to be united with their problem. How can you better promote this uniting of...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Ideas, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
I had never heard the term exaptation before reading this book. I’m actually still not really comfortable using it casually. I’m comfortable in my nerdliness, but I’m not sure I can or should be allowed to get away with using a word like that in every day parlance....
