Michael Jackson sang about it long before its time…. He rocks in the treetops all day long Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and singing his song All the little birdies on Jaybird Street Love to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet What is this Twitter thing? Tweeting?...
“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...
Seeing is believing. That is why a picture is worth a thousand words and a prototype is worth a thousand pictures. There are times you just cannot visualize what you might need until you see it. I often hear the complaint about how consumers don’t know what...
Recent research suggests the long “go to innovation tool” of brainstorming doesn’t work*. How can that be? I remember the brainstorming sessions of the 80’s. Friday afternoon a bunch of us might go into a conference room and start...