Forget your skills and disrupt
Every great advanced collaborator has a skill or attribute that makes him or her unique. I have an American colleague whose special skill is moral…
Innovation Via Product Hunt & Network Science
Many (tech related) companies release their latest products on Product Hunt. Boasting 10 million active monthly users or ‘hunters’, it is hands down…
Open Letter to My Organizational Network Analysis Friends
I discovered Network Analysis and its derivations only 5 years ago, yet it has been life changing. Since then, I have sought out and used most every…
Open Letter to the Design Thinking Community
For the last 20 years, my community, my network, my extended family* has been built upon various forms of Design Thinking. My indoctrination came in…
Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise
Innovation is one of the driving forces in our world. The constant creation of new ideas and their transformation into technologies and products…
If a pin drops in our network we want to know about it
The venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is a great example of an organization that uses an ecosystem mindset to great effect. Other than those…
Hotbeds of genius and innovation depend on these key ingredients
And what I find is that they tend to diversify into things that are somewhat related, but somewhat more complex or more advanced. And in the process…
MindSumo - Tap college students for a fresh perspective
Each project lasts 4 weeks, costs $8,000, and generates 150 unique concepts product development marketing insights technology applications…
10,000 ft Project and Innovation Software
We believe in the rise of the “creative thinker.” The modern problem solver who is motivated by getting things done, masterfully. Someone who…