The Hacker Way – The Mechanics of Hacking
Our everyday business lives are filled with incumbent systems, procedures and tools that simply don’t work. They’re constraining, inefficient and block the development of new, better ways of doing things. The intrapreneur is a ‘hacker’ at heart. They find the loops in the system, the paths to get around the blocks. This isn’t hacking in … Continue reading
Top 10 Tech Trends for 2013 from Le Web Paris
I had the privilege of attending this year’s Le Web conference in Paris (4th – 6th Dec), where over 3,000 of the world’s foremost tech entrepreneurs, leaders and commentators shared their latest developments and thoughts, as well as the odd glass of wine or two, on all things internet, tech and geek. Here’s my list … Continue reading
Learn The Art of “Innovisation”
“InnovisationTM” is the ongoing delivery of innovation through the mentality and practice of improvisation; a concept first propounded by entrepreneur, author and consultant Gregg Fraley in 2008 (see http://www.greggfraley.com/innovisationart.html). Innovisation is not a one-off, planned exercise, but a repetitive agenda for creativity, not accepting the accepted, and thinking fast. It doesn’t require a ‘master plan’; … Continue reading
10 Success Principles of Apple’s Innovation Master Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Ive joined Apple in 1992. He has gone on to be the inspiration, catalyst and driver behind products that have revolutionized technology, industry sectors and consumers’ lives across the world. He was the innovator and obsessive problem-solver to the visionary perfectionist that was Steve Jobs. This symbiosis re-built and re-defined Apple to become the world’s second … Continue reading
Invention, Innovation and Intrapreneurship
I particularly like the distinction provided by Futurist Dr Frank Shaw at a recent debate on innovation organized by insurer Hiscox [1]: Inventors – who create things that didn’t exist before Innovators – who take an invention to the point of pre-commercialisation Entrepreneurs – who spot the commercial opportunity and are prepared to put their time and money … Continue reading
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