How would you use Decision-Modeling?

James Taylor, one of the leading experts in decision management, is my guest tomorrow on the Business901 Podcast. Not sure, I could summarize the podcast any better than James did in this excerpt: James Taylor: One of the things we’ve been excited about with decision modeling is the breadth of use cases for it. We Read More …

Chesbrough on Open Services Innovation

Henry Chesbrough is a Professor at ESADE and father of the term ‘open innovation’, one of the concepts behind the creation of ESADE Creapolis. He is currently Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.His research topics include: innovation in Read More …

Discussing Outcomes versus Features and Benefits

Robin Lawton book, Creating a Customer-Centered Culture: Leadership in Quality, Innovation, and Speed offers some valuable insights even though it was written 20-years ago. In a past podcast, I asked Robin about discussing outcomes versus features and benefits. Related Podcast and Transcription: How Do You Listen to Your Customer? An excerpt from the podcast: Rob Read More …

An Instruction Manual for Innovation

David Hamme enjoys helping leaders uncover opportunities, examine problems from new angles, and executing the plan to bring them to fruition. His goal is to make your life easier and supercharge your performance.  His recent book, Customer Focused Process Innovation: Linking Strategic Intent to Everyday Execution is compilation of his thoughts and processes that he Read More …

Do We Need a Process for Innovation

This weeks Podcast guest is David Hamme. David enjoys helping leaders uncover opportunities, examine problems from new angles, and executing the plan to bring them to fruition. His goal is to make your life easier and supercharge your performance.  His recent book, Customer Focused Process Innovation: Linking Strategic Intent to Everyday Execution is compilation of Read More …

Question Transformation

Roger Schank wrote a book, The Creative Attitude: Learning to Ask and Answer the Right Questions: a few years ago that still is one of the better books that I have found on asking the right questions. From an Amazon review, “He describes how we think unconsciously using scripts. It is when this script fails do Read More …