Posts by slingshot
Innovation Labs Don’t Work
By Andy Howard, The Village of Useful | Original Article The last three years have seen Nordstrom, Microsoft, Disney, Target, Coca-Cola, British Airways and The New York Times either close or dramatically downsize their innovation labs. 90% of innovation labs are failing. This is a follow-up to our Business Insider ‘Big corporates should just ditch innovation…
Read MoreWould Your Company Make the ASX200 ‘Innovation Fund’?
By Andy Howard, The Village of Useful | Original Article High-growth companies aren’t focused on their existing markets. In 2006, ten companies on the NASDAQ were selected in the ‘UX Fund’, a portfolio of companies with market-leading user experience (UX) design. UX is the commercial engine of the Internet and these companies were selected for their…
Read MoreGet to Yes – Remove the internal roadblocks to corporate innovation
By Andy Howard, The Village of Useful | Original Article The default internal answer to a corporate innovation project is often “no”. Let’s get to “yes”. For an innovative corporate project to launch, let alone succeed, a project must escape unscathed from a maze of sign-offs, department approvals and legacy practices. Anecdotally, way more projects are suffocated by process than see…
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