June 30, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Innovation Culture – The Ultimate Guide
Innovation culture has long been one of the most challenging, and oft-discussed, topics in our conversations with business and innovation leaders. Given the extraordinary importance of innovation for businesses, and society in general, and the fact that culture has been shown to be one of the biggest barriers for innovation performance, it’s not much of a surprise. Because most […]
June 30, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
This Tiny House Is 3D Printed, Floats, and Will Last Over 100 Years
One of the world’s first 3D printed houses went up in China in 2016. At 400 square meters in size and 2 stories tall, the house took 45 days to print—and at the time, this seemed amazingly fast. Since then, similar houses have popped up in other parts of the world, including Russia, the US, […]
June 29, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
What Innovation Looks Like at an Energy Company
When you’re turning on your fan or firing up your laptop to get some work done, you probably don’t spend much time thinking about where that power comes from. But all of that thinking comes to the forefront of your mind when there are massive disruptio…
June 28, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Your Personal Data Is Worth Money, and Andrew Yang Wants to Get You Paid
Contact tracing has been a somewhat controversial tool for fighting coronavirus in the US. American consumers wanted privacy to be preserved, so Apple and Google set about devising an API that could help track potential Covid-19 outbreaks while keeping users’ identities anonymous. But what many of us seemed to forget during conversations about contact tracing […]
June 27, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
BRILLIANT!
This 15-minute talk by Prem Rawat, from his recent series of Lockdown talks, is absolutely brilliant. If you’re wondering why the world is having such a hard time these days — and what the simplest solution for its troubles might be — here’s the me…
June 27, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
We Need This Surprising Kind Of Diversity
We all live in our own reality. Our reality lives inside our heads. It is what we have experienced throughout our lives. Right? My reality is different from your reality. Your reality is different from everybody else’s reality. Even family member…
June 22, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Why Team Leaders at Al Siraat College Want to Be Team Leaders
Thirty four very dedicated teachers, staff members, and senior leaders from Al Siraat College in Epping, Australia are participating in a long-term Team Leadership Development training. What follows are some of their comments about WHY they have chos…
June 21, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Make Milkshakes For Your Customers
I probably should not admit this – as an innovation professional – but I just finished reading “Contending Against Luck,” Clayton Christensen’s last work on Innovation. If you aren’t aware, he is the one who came up …
June 19, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches
The coronavirus pandemic stopped a lot of things, but it hasn’t done much to slow down SpaceX and Elon Musk. The company sent two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station last month in the first-ever commercially-operated crewed mission, and it’s scheduled to launch its tenth group of Starlink satellites next week and a GPS […]
June 17, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The School I Want to Start
Now that I am officially an amateur in the field of education (six months working in an Islamic school, father of two, and a dropout from a poetry Masters program at Brown University), I am now extremely semi-clear about what kind of school I would s…
June 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Are You Seeing the Future?
Blending Signals To Envision The Future In a previous post, I mentioned that for some, foreseeing the future is challenging. Not sure why, since the signals of the future are all around us. Every day and in every way, we see glimpses of the future in e…
June 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Art in the Age of the Coronavirus
Let me guess: Somewhere, deep inside, you have artistic sensibilities. Over the years, you have tried your hand at painting or drawing or sculpture or writing or dancing or music or cooking or sewing or who knows how many other forms of creative expr…
June 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
We Need To Start Investing In Resilience
In 1964, as the financial revolution was gathering steam, an MIT economist named Paul Cootner published a collection of essays called The Random Character of Stock Market Prices. Based largely on an obscure dissertation by a forgotten frenchman, it laid the foundations for a new era of financial engineering. Yet among the papers included was …
June 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
We Need To Prepare For Future Crises Like We Prepare For War
In a 2015 TED talk, Bill Gates warned that “if anything kills ten million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.” He went on to point out that we have invested enormous amounts of money in nuclear deterrents, but relatively …
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June 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
How Consulting Will Likely Change Because of the Pandemic
The consulting industry was already being disrupted before the coronavirus. Now the disruption is accelerating. If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. Right around the corner are threats or opportunities, depending on how you respond. I’ve already written about how the management-consulting industry is being disrupted by various trends like emerging technologies, the commodification …
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June 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The Tailwinds of Human-Centered Design in 2020 and Beyond
by Greg Heist, Chief Innovation Officer, Gongos, Inc. “No. I don’t think the Empire had Wookies in mind when they designed it, Chewie.” – Han Solo to Chewbacca about the Tydirium Imperial Shuttle they’re flying While we can forgive the Galactic Empire for not factoring the needs of Wookies into Imperial Shuttles (it was after …
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June 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Get Out of the Gender Ghetto
By Federica D’Armento and Aleksandra Orman-Lorenz It’s the year 2277, and women have finally achieved equal pay at work. This is not the apocalyptic ending of a Hollywood movie. This may be the reality in 257 years. This is actually what the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2020 says: men and women will …
June 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Innovators as Champions for Big Ideas
Yesterday my electric toothbrush finally decided to die on me. It had served me well, may it rest in peace, and was so old that when I originally purchased it, there were probably only four or five options to choose from. It was so old that I actually recall buying it at a physical store, as …
June 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking
Most industries in today’s world run on a balance of sophisticated computer systems and skilled people to use them. Technology has allowed numerous industries to grow at a rapid pace and has streamlined countless business processes…but it still can’t learn, design, and discover the way people can. When computers and machinery became more practical for …
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June 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
How COVID Impacted 2020’s Innovation Trends
Every year, IdeaScale undertakes a comprehensive audit of our system data, our customer conversations and survey data in order to develop report on the state of crowdsourced innovation.
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June 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
LEADERSHIP SPARK
What follows is a poem written by Mohammed Azim, the Head of the English Department at Al Siraat College in Epping, Australia.
Mohammed is one of 34 teachers and staff members participating in the Team Leadership Training that I am currently facil…
June 13, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Tuning Into the WHY and PURPOSE of Being the Leader of a Team
If you are the leader of a team in your school, business, or organization, you definitely have your work cut out for you. Leading a team is a task that will take time, focus, resilience, patience, effort, adaptability, and a good sense of humor. Tow…
June 12, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
GETTING THE MONKEY OFF YOUR BACK: Asking the Right Question
“There are no right answers to wrong questions.” — Ursula Le Guin
Effective team leaders sometimes suffer from the “monkey on the back syndrome” — taking on other people’s problems when, in fact, they need to be helping those other people solve th…
June 12, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Validate Your Pivot with Innovation
When planning or navigating a pivot, how do you know if you are pivoting in the right direction? Answer simple questions to validate your pivot and execute on four actions to help create speed-to-market.
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June 11, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
All Good Technology Managers Are Transformational Leaders
Transformational leaders act as change agents who have developed competencies to better deploy information technology. This article contributes to practice by developing a more comprehensive understanding of the relationships between transformational l…
June 10, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
THE BEAUTY OF FEEDBACK: It’s Not a Weapon. It’s a Mirror.
I want you to imagine, for a moment, that I am your manager and, while passing you in the hallway on the way to yet another meeting I catch your eye, take a step towards you and, in a halting voice, say “Umm… uh… hi… I’m wondering if you have s…
June 10, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
How Can AI and IoT Help in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic?
The mix of IoT and AI is being used by tech enthused agencies for curbing the rise of coronavirus cases, and flattening the curve. Read all about it here.
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June 9, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
WISE CHOICES: On Being a Team Leader With Very Little Time
There are three things I’ve learned, about Team Leaders, in the past 33 years of working with these organizations.
1. They want their teams to become more high performing
2. The time they have to play their role is limited
3. They have choices abo…