Want to know the most effective way of discovering your ‘next big thing’? Try copying an idea from somewhere else… ‘New Ideas’ are rarely new. Innovation is mostly about using other people’s ideas and executing them better. The greatest inventions in history haven’t been conjured up entirely from scratch. Instead, they’re improvements on other ideas […]
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How often have you been told “That’s a Bad Idea“? Well here’s the thing; There is no such thing as a bad idea. No idea is bad, in itself, but perhaps ‘executing’ the idea could be. Let me explain… When someone says that an idea is bad, I tell them to take a hike. An
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I don’t want to stay in the same draftsman job for over 30 years, like my Dad. Nor does he have any desire to write a blog, manage projects, innovate, etc. But we do have one thing in common – we both have the same underlying skills to master to fulfill our potential. And heck,
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I was lucky enough to go to the Forrester Research IT Forum this summer which I thoroughly enjoyed as it crystallized a lot of my thinking and shone a torch on some important issues. My immediate reaction was to look at the Industrialization of IT , and it’s impact on the workers within the industry.
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Although it is very true that the best innovation comes from inside your organization, sometimes it is preferable to seek outside help from unusual sources. Innovation is about doing things better. It’s also about challenging one-self and the status-quo we find ourselves in, and it can result in major step-change as well as continuous improvement.
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