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The Creativity Crisis: It’s Getting Worse

Idea to Value

Making test scores as the measure of success fosters students’ competition and narrows their goals, such as getting rich, while decreasing their empathy and compassion for those in need. In “ The Creativity Crisis (2011) ” I reported that American creativity declined from the 1990s to 2008. Narrowing visions.

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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

The British cycling team used incremental improvements to go from also-rans to winning seven of ten gold medals in the 2008 Olympics. Continuous improvement increases efficiency and/or productivity, and these incremental improvements can confer a strong competitive advantage, particularly over longer time periods.

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IDEA 2008

Boxes and Arrows

37signals’ products do less than the competition—intentionally. Getting Real – Jason Fried Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals , a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary.

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

In this research they (Sirmon et al) suggest there are three primary stages of structuring, bundling and leveraging resources for the purpose of creating new value for customers and gaining competitive advantages, however temporary in today’s world.

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Microsoft buys LinkedIn – Smart move or Dumb move?

Destination Innovation

In 2013 their then CEO Steve Ballmer spent $7B acquiring Nokia’s mobile phone business when it was clear that Apple and Android were killing all other competition in the sector. In 2008 in another attempt to take on Google Microsoft offered $45B for Yahoo. It was an attempt to take on Google in online advertising and it failed.

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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Idea to Value

For example, during the 2008-09 financial crisis, most companies cut their technology budgets by 20-30%. Their effects will stick around for a long time and can even become a clear competitive advantage for the business going forward. That obviously meant quite a bit of trouble for most technology companies.

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

I have two established businesses, one started in 2000 and one in 2008. I thought I’d outline the six here in this post as the sum of the parts that contributes to the whole. They are distinct in what they provide as services. It covers many of the adjacency’s on innovation. Guide4innovating.