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  • Kit for video conferencing
    Thanks to COVID-19, we’re all much more familiar with video conferencing. This is a note about the kit I’ve been using, and some suggestions on improvements. This is my set-up: My desk with cameras, lights and teleprompter Lighting Lighting is the single most important thing to get right. There are many tutorials on YouTube. I … Read more
  • The anatomy of innovation
    There are many ways of running innovation processes and programmes. The following describes a broad approach — the result of many years, and many mistakes — that has been successful.
  • Problem roadmaps
    I’m a big fan of problems. Innovation efforts often focus on ideas. They’re exciting, right? Wouldn’t it be amazing to create this widget or that service? We can sketch ideas, embellish them, prototype them. We can make compelling presentations that convince holders of purse strings to fund them — and, in the process, convince ourselves.
  • Why are RATs not more popular?
    Our core approach to developing novel products and services it to model value from the outset. Such a model starts with huge unknowns, but this nothing to fear: use a tool that copes with uncertainty like the excellent Guesstimate, in which each spreadsheet cell can be a probability distribution. Armed with such a model you … Read more