Treat Innovation As A Quality, Not An Outcome
A client of mine recently expressed a common frustration related to innovation: “Everything we’re doing right now is critical to the business. We don’t…
Innovation Measurement
Measuring Ethics
Today all industries go through changes, making an understanding of the factors that influence purchase decisions highly important. With every firm att…
Digital Transformation: A Metrics Perspective
As the concept of Digital Transformation comes to the fore in an organisation, it can raise uncertainty, doubt and speculation for both customers and s…
Using ‘innovation’ as a catch all word is dangerous
Innovation seems to be one of those few evergreen words. It has never gone out of fashion as it is so intertwined with humankind’s development. So in t…
An Innovation Risk-Reduction Matrix for Intrapreneurs
Last year I saw Alexander Osterwalder, the originator of the Business Model Canvas (BMC ) speak in Berlin about his upcoming book on measuring innovati…
Moneyball for corporate innovation
The 2011 Moneyball movie starring Brad Pitt as coach Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics is probably one of the most talked about movies in the lean s…
Call for a bifocal metric system
There have been many voice criticizing GE for investing in Fastworks. More so with the recent news of the company's stock being at a historical low. E…
Experiment Velocity vs. Learning Velocity
I was partially wrong promoting 'experiment velocity' as an important Innovation Accounting KPI. I'm gonna tell you why and what's the fix. But first l…
Sharing in a world that’s closing down
Innovation is an increasingly open and expansive endeavor, with companies not only looking outside the walls of their office for new thinking, but also…
Statistics in Innovation
When you first think about innovation, statistics may not be at the forefront of your mind. We are often drawn to the creative side of the process, th…