Posts by Tim Kastelle
How to Grow
If we try to completely protect ourselves from failure, we’ll never learn. And if we don’t learn, we don’t grow. To grow, we have to take risks, and we have to mess up. If we learn from this, we’ll be ok.
Read MoreHow Can We Increase Insight?
One key step in innovating is generating novel ideas – and this is based on insight. So how can we increase insight?
Read MoreHere is Why Business Model Innovation is Powerful
Business model innovation is too often overlooked by firms. I ran across a great example today of the kind of opportunity that is available. Check out this graphic from Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz:
Read More90% of Everything is Crap, and What To Do About It
Theodore Sturgeon said “90% of everything is crud.†This sounds cynical, but it actually leads to some important innovation lessons.
Read MoreLook for Innovation From the Edge
Kenya is at the cutting edge of innovation in mobile money. How can this be? There are a plenty of reasons, and a few things to learn about innovation by investigating.
Read MoreInnovation Lessons from the Rise of Tesla Motors
I’m in Palo Alto right now, and electric cars are all over the road. This is a pretty good sign that they are traveling up the innovation diffusion s-curve, and are coming soon to a road near you.
Read MoreInnovation Challenge: Your Market is Never Stable
Change is one constant in business. The evolution of operating system market share demonstrates some important lessons for innovating in a constantly shifting environment.
Read MoreHow Cooking Lunch Can Be a Business Model Innovation
The startup Thumbtack hired a full-time chef a few years ago, and it transformed their business. It’s a great story of unintended business model innovation that we can learn from.
Read MoreDo You Really Know What Business You’re In?
Stop and think about the computer you’re carrying around with you right now. Not your laptop, your phone. Actually, maybe calling it a computer is selling it a bit short.
Read MoreThere’s No Innovation Without Uncertainty
Frederick Douglass said “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground…†He was talking about political reform, but this is also true of innovation as well.
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