Innovation
Ways to innovate and make innovation less frustrating
Blogging Innovation: Innovation From The Inside Out
This (http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/2010/02/innovation-from-inside-out.html0 really resonants with me. I think it’s because of the desire for so many company to create an innovation process at the expense of creating the freedom to innovate. I also sometimes fall into this trap. In particular, these two paragraphs really capture the essence of innovative companies: Unfortunately, when the addiction to systems... »
Topic #16: Intellectual Property
Talking Points There are 4 main Intellectual Property (IP) categories: Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets. Patents allow for monopoly practice of an idea in return for disclosing it for the public good. Trademarks help create your brand and identity. They can be a picture, graphic or set of words or phrases A copyright protects authors of “original... »
Blogging Innovation: To Uncover Great Ideas, Generate Lots of Them
People often ask me how often an idea turns into an invention. I have no real statistics on this but it seems that the people I know that invent stuff have between 3-5 ideas a day that might be worth exploring. Most of those ideas lead nowhere. That’s why this post over at Blogging... »
Zenhabits: How Passion and Focus Will Rock Your Career
Success at anything requires passion and focus. You can’t just show up, wander in the meadow and expect to be a smashing success. It takes dedication, passion and focus to achieve your goals. This guest post over a Zen Habits nails the reason passion is important but misses the point on focus. Focus is important... »
OnStartUps: Releasing Early Is Not Always Good
Great guest post over at OnStartUps about when to release. It’s always a struggle to sort out when to release a product. Chances are, you never really know the right time nor the right features to release with. This is truly an art to get right. Most of the “release early” debate revolves around software,... »
Blogging Innovation: Four Quadrants of Innovation
I just found the Blogging Innovation site (via a Twitter post). This article struck me as a great approach to innovation. Instead of going for the disruptive innovation all the time (something that far too many companies do), having a blended innovation approach makes the most sense. I have always prescribed to the focus on... »
Shot Of Inspiration: Time is Elastic Grasshopper
Great post on focus and why being in the zone is much more productive that just working. Concentration makes you more productive. That’s the trick to Time Elasticity. Too often, we get distracted with other things while trying to create or get work done. This expands the time required for tasks and just makes... »
Best Biz Practices: Video and Podcasting
I have always wondered about how to make Video and Podcasting part of my online presence. I think part of it was not the mechanics of doing it but rather what would people want to view and listen too. This post over at Best Biz Practices gives both a technical how to and what... »
The Bloggers’ Bulletin Guest Post
Check out The Bloggers’ Bulletin post I did about what one can learn from Project Runway. Even though it’s for bloggers, the lessons apply to all creative people. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress. »
Copyblogger: The Quentin Tarantino Guilde to Creating Killer Content
I must admit, I am a big fan of Quentin Tarantino. His stuff is just so over the top bizarre and entertaining wrapped up in a big, bloody bow. The latest post over at CopyBlogger breaks down Tarantino’s creative process. The part that resonates with me is the Own Your Story part. This applies to... »
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