The Craft of Innovation®
Forging creative ideas into business reality
My work brings together the worlds of design, business, and technology. I advise smart, creative leaders who want to bring innovative ideas to life — faster, more efficiently, and with greater impact and results.
Discover ways you can launch or enhance your innovation project, and how the Innovation Lab Blueprint™ can maximize your efforts.
The Zen of Venn (Diagrams)
Venn diagrams are greatly overlooked for their power to demonstrate inclusion, exclusion, and exclusivity. Let’s look at 2-, 3- and 4-circle Venn diagrams, and where to use each. If you want to show the unique value you can bring to a project or client, a Venn diagram is golden. It […]
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The Money-Fun Matrix
Use my Money-Fun Matrix to gain clarity on what types of clients and projects to work on in your business. More than 20 years ago I created this 2×2 matrix to assess the value of the clients and projects I worked on during the year. It’s a simple four-quadrant analysis […]
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Visual IP: What Shape Do Your Ideas Take?
Visual intellectual property (Visual IP) is a powerful tool to help you explain, influence, and persuade. Here are the 5 essential shapes to unlock the impact of your ideas. Do your great ideas end up trapped inside your mind? You’re not alone. In my encounters with big thinkers, I find […]
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Visual IP: Your Secret Weapon for Persuasion
Quick, think back to a recent time when you were trying to convince someone about your ideas or opinion. Did you use logic? Emotion? Stories? Whatever your approach, chances are your tool of choice was mostly words, either spoken or written. Whether you were successful or not, you could have […]
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Creativity on Demand
One of the differences between creative professionals and amateurs is the ability to generate creativity on demand. It means not waiting for the muse to arrive. In my years working as an advisor to entrepreneurs and innovation executives, I’ve learned this is one aspect of creativity that is often misunderstood. […]
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When Innovation Partners Become Competitors
Disney’s streaming service, Disney+, has shifted the power dynamic in online media, and former innovation partners Disney and Netflix are now competitors. The contours of their new relationship have been intriguing to watch, as these two giants battle for customer screen time, wallets, and loyalty. For years Disney made hundreds […]
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