Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Large scale workshops
Just finished a large scale workshop at the end of last week and starting to feel like my life is returning to some sort of pattern once more after weeks of preparation. It was a three day event for an organisation which employees 8000 people and has an annual spend of NZ$1 billion. We had [...]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Intelligence on planes
It’s a little off topic, but while in London a couple of weeks back I had an interesting chat with Matt Webb about trying to work on planes. We developed a theory, which basically says that the longer the journey, the more likely you are to end up watching Die Hard 3. I have called [...]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Failure is essential for innovation
It dates back to December 2006, but the message in this article is very relevant for a culture of innovation : …it’s nearly impossible for companies to develop breakthrough products, processes, or approaches without encouraging the kind of trial and error that inevitably generates failures as well as successes. The challenge is to craft incentives [...]
