How a Customizable Workplace Environment Spurs Innovation
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Building 20 — made of wood in 1943 when steel was in short supply — was supposed to be razed immediately after World War II. But it housed so many...
View ArticleDoes Your Team Have Enough Outsiders to Be Innovative??
Too many teams have too few outsiders. Does yours? Use this test to assess your organization and to push innovation from the outside in.
View ArticleOur Lean Start-Up (or, The Imperfect Beauty of a Test-and-Learn Launch)
There’s been lots of chatter about the “lean start-up.” In fact, there’s a veritable mini-industry that’s been built up around the concept, including books, consulting practices, papers, speeches,...
View ArticleA Smarter Definition of Innovation: Cracking Combinations
Even if technology froze today, we have more possible ways to configure the different applications, machines, tasks, and distribution channels to create new processes and products than we could ever...
View ArticleWhy Engineers’ Minds Are Terrible Things to Waste
A lot of resources are getting soaked up by lesser companies — most importantly, talented engineers, talented builders of things.
View ArticleHow to Translate New Ideas Into Your Team’s Native Language
Apple was helping people transition from what was familiar to them in the physical world to what was new in the digital world.
View ArticleBe the Standardizer, Not the Inventor.
One real-world innovation lesson from the story of the barcode. (There are five more.)
View ArticleThe Groundbreaking Path of Real Innovation
When it comes to innovation, what's the most common mistake that companies make?
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