Idea Sandbox

While there are innumerable reasons for hosting a brainstorming session, the purpose for meeting can be summarized with four situations. They are the need to meet to: (1) Fix Something / Solve Problem, (2) Grow Something, (3) Think-Up Ideas / Fill Idea Pipeline, and (4) Innovate / Create Something New (1) Fix Something / Solve [...]

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Trend Hunter, Jeremy Gutsche spent time last week touring from blog to blog discussing his new book Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change. Just a few topics covered include… On Monday, Jeremy spoke with Chris Wilson at The Marketing Fresh Peel about the importance of keeping your marketing messages: simple, [...]

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Welcome to the third stop this week of the Post2Post Virtual Book Tour featuring Jeremy Gutsche’s book Exploiting Chaos. Jeremy’s comments with Karin Koonings at The Essential Orange were posted yesterday, and today Jon at the 800 CEO Read Blog shared his thoughts about the book. Here is where we’ve been and where we’re going [...]

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I’m excited to share today’s launch of the Post2Post Virtual Book Tour featuring Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways To Spark Innovation During Times of Change by Jeremy Gutsche. As Jeremy oulines on his Exploiting Chaos website… “In times of chaos, the deck gets reshuffled and the rules of the game are changed. To thrive, companies must [...]

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Innovative ideas – the kind that can transform your company – are inadvertently being demolished. When first presented, many ideas meet wrecking-ball comments such as… “How’s that going to work?” “Good luck getting that done!” “We don’t have time for something like that.” And the classic, “Doesn’t work… Trust me… We tried that years ago.” [...]

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The “Palace of Light” is the original Shredded Wheat factory and the boss, Frank Druffel, is keeping the ‘no’ in Innovation. Post Cereals has a created a series of videos celebrating the fact they haven’t messed with their product since 1892… and the problems with progress and innovation. My favorite is the second episode, “Speech [...]

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It’s always an honor when someone cares to hear your advice. It is my pleasure to share with you a BlogRadio interview I was part of on Saturday evening that featured… well… me and Idea Sandbox! Jenny Ward, the Chief Play Activist at Playward, hosts the “Live In PLAY” talk show every Saturday afternoon at [...]

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Be sure to check out this week’s virtual book tour featuring the new book “The Innovator’s Guide to Growth“ by Anthony, Johnson, Sinfield & Altman. The authors spent the past five days speaking with a different blogger each day. Each post in the tour provides a different perspective about the book. Read the posts. Buy [...]

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If you haven’t already, check out the interesting interview at Gordon Graham’s site Broken Bulbs: Innovation blog. He speaks with the authors of the new book Innovator’s Guide to Growth as part of the Post2Post Virtual Book Tour. Tomorrow (Tue. 23 Sept), the conversation continues at Greg Daines’ Ideanomics site. Great interviews, a great book.

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It is always gratifying when – in your lifetime – someone solves one of the world’s problems. We’re still figuring out global warming, but someone has solved our soggy breakfast cereal problem. The Eat Me Crunchy Bowl For sale on the UK site Firebox.com, they say… The concept behind this revolutionary breakfast bowl is forehead-slappingly [...]

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If you were to suggest packaging ready-to-drink wine by-the-glass in the cold case of a convenience store I could give you a handful of reasons why it wouldn’t work. How could it be logistically possible? But take a look… While visiting Paris earlier this week, I saw these ready-to-drink wines by-the-glass in the refrigerated case [...]

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Every company I have worked with has had a staffing/human resources department. Finding, screening and hiring the right employee to do a great job in a role are very important. In fact, here some of the people and tools involved: human resources people hiring manager – the person who is looking for a new employee [...]

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This post is no longer up-to-date as the Think Smart site no longer exists. But the questions are still relevant You’re thinking Intelligence Quotient… I’m talkin’ Innovation Quotient. Joyce Wycoff at Innovation Network has had a simple on-line guide, which allows you to measure how innovative your company is. You’d answer ten questions, with answer [...]

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Yesterday I shared some of what Geoffrey Moore discussed from his book “Dealing with Darwin” during his book tour visit this week to Starbucks HQ in Seattle. Here are more nuggets from Geoff… Geoff explained three different categories of innovation… Product Leadership, Customer Intimacy, and Operational Excellence. The diagram below shows which stage in the [...]

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