Last night I spoke to a group of women entrepreneurs on a culture of innovation. I shared a bit on Framing, one of my favorite parts of design thinking. How you frame something or look at it makes all the difference in the world in terms of what opportunities you...
“We don’t make decisions.” “Nothing ever gets done around here.” “No sooner than we make a decision in a lead team meeting it is undone by all the conversations behind closed doors.” “Sales and marketing refuse to...
For most of my career I thought of decisions as a thing, an event, a point in time. Perhaps decisions were positioned throughout the stage gate process. Or, a decision was a “go/no go” final decision. That perspective is naive and incomplete. Decisions...
There is a great divide between creating/imagining a new idea or invention and crossing over to launching it as a successful innovation in the marketplace. One way this divide can manifest is between the innovation team and the commercialization team in a large...
When I was a child in school, we looked forward to the snow day, the day of freedom from responsibility and the unexpected joy of spontaneous play. While I don’t want to sound like the Grinch, I wonder if the Snow Day is outdated and if even the institution of...
