Far too often I’ve sat in brainstorming sessions where ideas died a slow death afterwards. Ideas alone are not innovation; without a process of evaluation, selection and execution, they remain mere ideas.
The startup activity in Southeast Asia is currently booming with deals on track to hit record numbers in 2017. Over 500 deals are expected by the end of this year, following an impressive 2016 that resulted in 347 deals.
Design Thinking is a buzz phrase that has been thrown around companies for many years now. But how is Design Thinking any different from the way companies have always approached problem solving?
Struggling to get sell your innovation idea to management? Developing a pitch is an effective way to communicate your idea and all the details underpinning it.
The highest quality solutions come from valuable insights into human behaviour. However, learning to recognise those insights is harder than you think. Here are three techniques, that when applied correctly, can uncover customer insights that you would never have thought existed.
The sign of a healthy innovation culture is one in which its people feel comfortable sharing their ideas, opinions and criticisms, without fear of retribution.
Here are ten of the top corporate innovation labs in Singapore.
Check out this infographic that provides an overview of this popular approach to problem solving.
Overnight successes are usually anything but. In most cases, what appears to be a sudden rise to prominence is often the the manifestation of years of frustration, trial and error and time spent honing one’s craft.
While there’s much talk emanating out of Silicon Valley nowadays that “pivot is the new fail”, when the term first gained popularity off the back of the lean startup movement in the early 2010s it effectively meant making a fundamental shift in your business model, based on customer learnings, towards one that is designed to bring you closer to product market fit.
Over the last six months I have identified three personal growth hacks that everyone should be aware of. The great thing is you can action these straight away!
A roadmap to effectively partnering with startups.
Here's our list of 20 best books on innovation. These are essential reads are relevant for innovation management, creativity and entrepreneurship for 2016, 2017 and 2018.
There are countless tools we use with clients to build fast, learn fast and measure fast in order to determine what will ‘wow’ customers enough to extend or generate new lines of revenue and remain a competitive force well into the future.
Design Thinking is just one piece of the corporate innovation puzzle and it alone is never enough.
Flow Genome Project's Jamie Wheal discusses why creativity is more than a skill.
Why your ideation tools aren’t working and how to bring ideas back to life. In this article, we cover the definition of the ideation process steps, followed by recommended approach, examples and techniques. This is essential for the execution of design thinking.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself, and formerly co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, way back when in episode #13 of Future Squared.
