Posts Tagged ‘innovation’

A billion dollars from merging traffic?

I wonder if the way we drive sheds any light on how we can or do embrace innovation. I wonder why on the highway in big cities we crowd up at the beginning of merging entrance and/or exit ramps. I wonder if that sheds any light on describing why we don’t see any more innovation [...]

Getting Innovative Ideas: Context, Flashes and Diligent Co-Creators

For the most part, people want new ideas and innovation but how? Primarily, I have three rough tactics.
First, it seems to me that innovation can not be separated from context. Innovations are context based because they grow out of them and are defined in relation to them. Think of the paper clip. The paper clip [...]

Innovation: Lessons from the Military

“That’s the thing about the Military, you learn to never do anything the same way twice. If you do, the second time the enemy recognizes the pattern and the third time they are waiting for you.”

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting and talking with a WWII Aviation Mechanic, Paul, at my Brother In-Law’s groom’s dinner this weekend. [...]

Broken: Change

Weird, I admit, but it seems to me that change is broken. We all love the results of change… maybe… depending on if it is a better future for us or not. That is what I mean, change for change sake is broken for us. Isn’t that the case? It seems to me that what [...]