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 | Jul 16, 2016 | Ideas, Innovation, Strategy Page, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
You now know the what the Reef, City, and Web have in common: they are environments which facilitate the rapid creation, diffusion, and adoption of ideas. You have some sense of why, but you’re more curious than knowledgeable at this point. That will change as you...
by Jeff | Jul 16, 2016 | Ideas, Innovation, Strategy Page, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The world wide web – yes THAT web – is an environment that promotes the creation, diffusion, and adoption of ideas. Amazing, mind-blowing insight, right?! This first chapter of Where Good Ideas Comes From – Reef, City, Web – is about environments where a lot of stuff...
by Jeff | Jul 16, 2016 | Ideas, Innovation, Strategy Page, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The more people you put together, the more ideas you get. If you remember from the last post, the relationship between population and creativity (measured by patents per capita) is a power law relationship. There are probably flaws with that conclusion, but you don’t...
by Jeff | Jul 4, 2016 | Innovation, Innovation Book
Here’s the book in a series of disjointed concepts. Innovation is about delivering NEW value to customers in a sustainable (repeatable) manner. There are five key disciplines NEEDS: First, focus on important customer needs VALUE CREATION: Second, use Needs Approach...
by Jeff | Jul 4, 2016 | Innovation, Innovation Book
There are three good concepts to “getting started with innovation” that I want to extract from this book. First, find a buddy. Everything is easy with help. You want to engage the team around you and eventually get the entire enterprise aligned with the...
