August 31, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
One Simple Way to Ensure That Your Team Becomes High Performing
If you are reading this, chances are good that you are currently a member of a team — either at work, in your community, or as part of a volunteer organization. And if you aren’t on a team now, chances are good that, at some time in your life, you w…
August 30, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The Long Sleep: Innovative Product Gestation
You could call it hibernation, but that’s too kind. You could call it neglect, yet some are working on it pushing the proverbial boulder up the corporate mountain. To be kind, let’s simply call it The Long Sleep. This condition happens inside organizations when an innovation concept bounces along internally for a long time without …
August 29, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
It’s Ecosystems, Not Inventions That Truly Change the World
Imagine yourself as the CEO of a Dow component company in 1919. You are fully aware of the technological forces that would shape much of the 20th century, electricity and internal combustion. You may have even be an early adopter of these technologies. Still, everything seems like business as usual. What you don’t see, however, …
August 28, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Harvard & Cornell Research Shows That People Like You More Than You Think
Our self image is shaped by an internal narrative that often has less to do with reality than we think. Here’s why that’s a good thing. If you’re shy, or even a little introverted I’ve got good news and bad news and I’m going to let you choose which is which. A study conducted by …
August 27, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Top 50 Innovation Twitter Sharers of 2019
We thought it would be a fun summer activity to pull together a list of the top innovation personalities and information sharers on twitter. We knew we follow a lot of great innovation people on twitter (including a lot of the great Innovation Excellen…
August 27, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Why hire physician intrapreneurs… and what to do with them once you have.
Surthriving in the brave new world of sickcare requires not just a new playbook, but players with new skill sets to execute the plans. Knowledge technicians are as obsolete as an NFL team with a running game but without a passing and special teams plan. Unfortunately, HR managers are getting it wrong. But, do you know how to …
August 26, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
21 Reasons Why You Like to Do Your Creative Work in Cafes
Ever since I was old enough to realize there would never be a want ad in a newspaper that described a job I wanted, I’ve loved working in cafes. I never really thought much about it until a few days ago when a baffled friend of mine asked why I was s…
August 26, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Obratori, one-stop shopping for startups: incubation services, and funding
Amaury Godron is General Manager of OBRATORI, L’OCCITANE Innovation Lab, and Managing Partner of LOG Investment, L’OCCITANE Venture Fund. There are some Startups Studios on the market, but OBRATORI differs from them as being a Corporate Startups Studio (more similar to Kamet by Axa): it was created by L’OCCITANE Group to let external startups soar …
August 26, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
It’s Not Enough to Drive Change, You Also Have to Survive Victory
In early 2004, Viacom announced it would spin off Blockbuster Video, leaving CEO John Antioco master of his own fate. He moved quickly to meet the threat posed by Netflix head on, launching Blockbuster Online in 2004 and, after successfully testing the…
August 25, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
How to Design for Success
What do they want? Some get there with jobs-to-be-done, some use Customer Needs, some swear by ethnographic research and some like to understand why before what. But in all cases, it starts with the customer. Whichever mechanism you use, the objective is clear – to understand what they need. Because if you don’t know what …
August 25, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Truth Behind Sears Collapse and How Your Business Can Avoid It
Common wisdom has it that Sears just couldn’t keep up with Amazon. The truth is much more interesting and holds a critical lesson that you need to know to build your business and brand. Richard Sears was brilliant. He took the personal relationship that each customer had with local general store keepers and scaled it …
August 23, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
More Heart. Less Head. Making Feedback Matter.
The best insights are often stumbled upon. Like happiness, such insights are just naturally-occurring by-products of being curious. Curiosity and courage, coupled with humility, are the root soft skills of successful innovators. You need to be open and vulnerable to excel. In that spirit, professional feedback and performance reviews could be more human and humanizing. Here’s …
August 22, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Are Doctors Linkedin or Linkedout?
I think doctors have linkedout. Others have offered reasons why. Some disagree claiming that 1M doctors and nurses are on Linkedin. While that may be true, as the owner of a group that is approaching 30,000 members, I’ve observed: 1. Linkedin is mostly about finding a job. It does not fit the needs of doctors. Unless, that is, …
August 21, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
To Drive Innovation, We Need To Hire For Diversity And Empathy
One of the questions I get asked quite often, both at conferences and when coaching executives, is what type of personality is best suited for innovation so that they can optimize their hiring. Are technical people better than non-technical people? Int…
August 20, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Plinnovate: Innovation for Students and Young Adults
If the same title, descriptions, and logo could remain that would be great!
August 20, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Rethink Creativity: How to innovate, inspire, and thrive at work.
Interview with Monica Kang, Part One of Two. I met Monica Kang at the Day of Innovation Conference in Indy where we were both presenters. Her approach to the often ill-defined world of Creativity was profound, awakening the better and forgotten parts of many of the people in her workshop. I know then that I’d …
August 19, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The Most Important Work of Jeff Bezos is Not Amazon
For all his wealth and power the most important work Jeff Bezos is doing is about as far removed from Wall Street and Silicon Valley as you can get. At a surprise appearance during Wired’s 25 anniversary summit Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he has plans to spend over $1 billion yearly …
August 19, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
From Poland to Portugal, Ewa Kopczynska, an innovation globetrotter
Ewa Kopczynska is a Partner and co-founder at E&D Knowledge Consulting, a consulting company specialized in knowledge management, innovation research, and change in innovation and technology. International project manager, and researcher in innovation and entrepreneurship fields, she’s a native from Poland, she works in Portugal, and basically, she’s bold in every attempt she does! I …
August 18, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Rent My Life
In a world where we can rent everything, why should we own anything at all? The liberal answer may say that modern democracies are based on private property. And, my mind goes immediately at John Locke and his natural rights. Do we need, or do we have …
August 18, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
How Artificial Intelligence Is Making The Shift From System To Ecosystem
When IBM first debuted its Watson system on the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, it was like something out of science fiction. Here was a computer that could not only understand spoken questions, but answer them faster and more accurately than the best hum…
August 16, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
How Behavioral Economics is Killing Innovation
When my daughter Maya was in middle school, she decided to repeat a behavioral economics experiment featured in Dan Ariely’s book Predictably Irrational for her science project. In her experiment, she offered participants from the control group two options. Facebook access, she suggested, was going to cost money. It would cost $5 a month to access Facebook …
August 15, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The Single Most Important Predictor of Your Success
What if your future success and happiness weren’t based on your past but rather on how you talked about your past? I am about to challenge you in a way that you will resist with every fiber of your being. In her book, The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life that Matters, Emily Esfahani Smith …
August 14, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Build Trust Before Trying to Transform Your Organization
I was recently invited by Accenture Strategy, along with other thought leaders such as Bruce Weinstein and Andrew Winston, to discuss its research on trust and competitive agility. In a study of 7000 companies the firm found that trust among a diverse …
August 13, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Reminder – Nominations Open – Top 50 Innovation Twitter Sharers of 2019
We thought it would be a fun summer activity to pull together a list of the top innovation personalities and information sharers on twitter. In case you missed it, here were the Top 50 Innovation Twitter Sharers of 2018. We know we follow a lot of grea…
August 13, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Five Models for Sustainable Growth – Part 5
Part Five of a Five-Part Series For several weeks we’ve been discussing business model innovation – a topic many of you have asked about. This is the final post of the five-part series. Previous posts covered Accelerators and Incubators, Premium, Personalized & Service-focused, Platforms & Ecosystems, and Subscriptions/Rentals. Model # 5 is Digital/Physical and Omnichannel.…
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August 13, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Moms Who Dominate the Closed World Principle
If you’re remotely familiar with “mom life” you know that unpredictable needs arise at a moment’s notice. BuzzFeed recently highlightedthese daily realities by capturing the amazingly creative solutions that moms bring to the table. Do you become the human popcorn…
August 13, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Business Model Rookie Mistakes
The NSF iCorps experience is a 7 week program that is designed to help scientists, engineers and health professionals commercialize their ideas, or give them a merciful death, based on evidence garnered during a customer discovery interview process. I recently participated as part of a team composed of an entrepreneurial lead, a principal investigator, and an …
August 12, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Paul Romer’s Nobel Prize In Economics Marks A New Era Of Innovation Driven By Ideas
Understanding the idea economy challenges much of what we’ve come to accept as industrial era economic gospel. Paul Romer let his phone ring on the morning of October 8th . It was early and he wasn’t expecting a call. But when he checked to see who was calling he noticed it was from Sweden. When …
August 12, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Open Innovation at Bouygues – Innovating Across Business Units
Vincent Maret is corporate director Open Innovation at Bouygues Corp. His goal is to drive competitiveness through innovation, leveraging agile methods, fostering open innovation programs, and supporting Bouygues business units in their transformation. Vincent has an extensive experience in marketing, strategy, innovation, project management, telecom and information technologies; as Marketing Manager; deputy R&D director with …
August 11, 2019 | by Chris Kalaboukis
4 Ways To Empower Change In Your Organization
In 1957, Ken Olsen founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) with his MIT classmate, Harlan Anderson, and by the 1960s, the company had pioneered the minicomputer revolution. Much cheaper than IBM mainframes, but still powerful enough to be useful, these machines helped make DEC one of the world’s leading technology companies. Hailed as a visionary, Olson …