The Job-to-Be-Done for Art May 14, 2014 featured & Humanomics Why do people buy art? What is the “job to be done” here? Recently I had an opportunity to run an innovation workshop for the Arts sector in System vs the Lifeworld May 13, 2014 featured & Policy & Systems What happens when we forget the language of the people whose life we want to change? Pic by Ron Mader on Flickr In the book Moment of Clarity, the Defining Uncertainity May 13, 2014 featured & Humanomics Uncertainty is a key part of innovation, of being entrepreneurial in your work. Image by Nicu in Flickr Shane Parrish provides a good definition of The Innovators Dna: The Five Characteristics and How You Can Develop Them? Mar 31, 2014 featured & Humanomics What are the characteristics of an Innovator? Jorge Barba points to this “six-year study surveying 3,000 creative executives and conducting an What’s Next? Mar 27, 2014 featured & Humanomics Fred Wilson: It isn’t clear if the next thing is virtual reality, the internet of things, drones, machine learning, or something else. Larry Truthiness Mar 19, 2014 featured & Humanomics & Social Issues Merriam-Webster’s #1 Word of the Year for 2006: 1. truthiness (noun) 1 : “truth that comes from the gut, not books” (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Why Design Thinking Won’t Save You (Or Any Other Discipline) Jan 27, 2014 featured & Humanomics & Systems Coming from a investment banking background, an MBA degree and a focus on social change, I easily saw the value of business thinking to create value Understanding the Knowledge Funnel to Reinvent Your Organisation Jan 16, 2014 featured & Value Creation The mighty business models of giants like Home Depot failed when they entered China. One of the main reasons was the lack of empathy with customers The “C” of Strategy Jan 9, 2014 featured & People & Value Creation Strategy is about choices. These choices are not easy to make and the question that comes through always is where do you start. There are basically The Purpose Question Jan 7, 2014 featured & Humanomics If questions are powerful and in fact a prerequisite for innovation, then the biggest question we can ask is the “purpose question”. Keith Yamashita Insights for Designing Your Strategy Oct 3, 2013 featured & Value Creation Greg Githens is writing some stuff on Strategy with a lot of clarity. Somebody you should follow if you are interested in Strategy. On Insights: