Bring customers into the idea review process
Say you’ve got some internal ideas at your company. Who takes a look at them? Assesses them to determine next steps for each idea? Figures out the value and difference the ideas can make? How about...
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Sharing economy is still in early adopter phase
Airbnb. Lyft. Kickstarter. Quirky. Kiva. TaskRabbit. The sharing economy is increasingly in the news. Those six companies are receiving a lot of chatter, as shown by Google News results for September...
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Talk-n-Tweet | Collaborative Innovation at Scale
Previously, I’ve described Why Crowdsourcing Works. Crowdsourcing is a case where you get many people who don’t one another collaborating toward a defined outcome.To reiterate the principle points...
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The area of collaborative innovation is a natural extension of the social business movement. It’s the extension of social into purposeful collaboration, a term Alan Lepofsky uses to describe the...
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Consumer adoption of Bitcoin | A jobs-to-be-done analysis
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently did one of his tweetstorms on the topic of Bitcoin, a technology he avidly supports. In 25 tweets, he talked about criticisms people have of Bitcoin....
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Avoiding innovation errors through jobs-to-be-done analysis
The lean startup movement was developed to address an issue that bedeviled many entrepreneurs: how to introduce something new without blowing all your capital and time on the wrong offering. The...
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How self-driving vehicles can fix the San Francisco housing crunch
In the San Francisco Bay Area, home prices have seen significant appreciation the last few years: Source: Paragon Real Estate Group In the Bay Area, skyrocketing home prices and rents have driven...
View Article10 examples that show the value of cognitive diversity
In a previous post, the benefits of crowdsourcing were described as follows: When trying to solve a challenge, what is the probability that any one person will have the best solution for it? It’s a...
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16 metrics for tracking Collaborative Innovation performance
In a recent PwC survey, 61% of CEOs said innovation was a key priority for their company (pdf). The only surprising result there is that it wasn’t 100%. Innovation efforts come in a variety of forms:...
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Why Amazon wins | Innovate the core, innovate to transform
Take a look at your organization’s innovation projects. Are you strategically balancing your efforts between the core business and future growth areas? In advising companies about innovation, an area I...
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Stats say Hot Hand is real | Klay Thompson’s amazing quarter
Want to see something amazing? Take two minutes to watch what Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson did in the third quarter of a January 2015 game: Klay is a great shooter in general, but that...
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I’m joining RevolutionCredit as Chief Scientist
A note on my new job. I’m joining the FinTech startup RevolutionCredit as Chief Scientist. In this role, I’ll work on developing the next generation of credit scoring methodologies in the financial...
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