I will be in London attending a reunion soon and have some availability May 15-17, 2024 if anyone would like to book a keynote, workshop, or advisory session while I’m there.
Are you looking to build a continuous innovation infrastructure in your organization?
Would you like to learn more about the Change Planning Toolkit?
Want to learn how to become your own Futurist using the FutureHacking™ suite of tools?
I’m also open to helping promote a get together if someone has a space in central London to offer up for hosting a Human-Centered Change and Innovation community meetup.
Contact me if you have interest in any or all of these!
The theme for this year’s event is intersectional global value.
There will be an exciting line-up of innovation-oriented keynotes, in-depth topic speakers, practitioner and student lightning-talk sessions, panel discussions, workshops, round-tables, meet the author sessions, and a diversity-oriented networking experience.
I will be delivering the closing keynote to the event in my role as innovation speaker.
I hope you will join me for this live virtual event.
More details coming soon!
(including more details on the speakers and sessions)
In the current environment, human-centric challenges abound, but you can’t focus on solving all of them. Many organizations complain not about having too few ideas, but about having TOO MANY IDEAS. Human-centered design principles can be incredibly helpful to assist with empathy, problem framing, problem re-framing, solutioning, prototyping, hypothesis testing, experimentation, and iteration. All of which can help you narrow down onto a few problems worth solving.
I’d like to share with you here the recording of the keynote I delivered on 9 June 2020 at the virtual ISPIM Innovation Conference titled Picking a Problem Worth Solving From a Sea of Problems:
Because there are not a lot of great tools for Human-Centered Design (aka Design Thinking) I’ve been putting together some tools to make the approach a little more intuitive. I’ve either built, or am in the process of building tools for:
Some of my human-centered design approaches are covered in the virtual keynote video above, and below you’ll find a quick introduction to a simple but powerful tool I created for picking a search area and a challenge to design against:
Inexpensive Tool for Finding Problems Worth Solving
The Problem Finding Canvas is intended to help you think deeply about the different areas to explore that you could address, the challenges that make up each of those areas to explore and the opportunities for innovation or improvement that exist in solving those challenges.
Key Focus Areas
The middle of the canvas is designed to help clients uncover more than just the obvious challenges, so be sure and dig deep into the details of the:
Users
Outcomes
Tools
Actions/Interactions
Desired Outcome
The Problem Finding Canvas should help you investigate a handful of areas to explore, choose the one most important to you, extract all of the potential challenges and opportunities and choose one to prioritize.
What’s Missing?
I’m in the middle of packaging together the other tools mentioned above into a suite of Human-Centered Design tools for your Design Thinking efforts and a broader Human-Centered Innovation Toolkit™.
What tools do you wish you had for doing design thinking?
What tools are missing from your innovation toolbox that you wish you had?
Please leave a reply in the comments and maybe I can build them for you!
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If your innovation culture leaves something to be desired and its your job to make it better, and you missed my virtual keynote at the June 6, 2014 Pipeline 2014 conference, then you can register now and watch my FREE keynote ON DEMAND and find out five actions you can take to change your innovation culture for the better.
Here is a description of the session:
When it comes to innovation, far too much emphasis is placed on creativity, ideas and products. Innovation requires more than ‘aha’ moments. Innovation is a team sport, not an individual one, and while it may be easier for our reptilian brain to understand a single innovation hero, the truth is that every innovation figurehead from Steve Jobs to Thomas Edison had a whole lab or team of people behind them making the real innovation happen. In this session we will investigate what it takes to build a successful team of capable innovation practitioners and contributors that will effectively form a strong and sustainable innovation culture to power success for the organization, not just for the moment, but for the lifetime of the organization.
And here is some information on this FREE virtual conference:
If you’re not familiar with the Pipeline Conference, it is a virtual conference with more than 4,000 participants from 95 countries over the past four years. PIPELINE offers product development practitioners access to experts as well as practical information they can use right away – all from the comfort of their desks. From idea to launch to end-of-life, the content will appeal to any professional involved in the end-to-end product development process. In addition, the newly designed PIPELINE virtual platform serves as a resource center for 12 months following the live event with new content each quarter.
Register now and get free access to the resource center. PIPELINE 2013 was named Event of the Year category in Best in Biz Awards for virtual conference on innovative product development. For more information and to register, visit:
http://www.pipelineconference.com
Please check out my keynote and Q&A session and let me know your thoughts!
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If your innovation culture leaves something to be desired and its your job to make it better, then come join me online at Pipeline 2014 for my FREE keynote on June 6, 2014 and find out five actions you can take to change your innovation culture for the better.
Here is a description of the session:
When it comes to innovation, far too much emphasis is placed on creativity, ideas and products. Innovation requires more than ‘aha’ moments. Innovation is a team sport, not an individual one, and while it may be easier for our reptilian brain to understand a single innovation hero, the truth is that every innovation figurehead from Steve Jobs to Thomas Edison had a whole lab or team of people behind them making the real innovation happen. In this session we will investigate what it takes to build a successful team of capable innovation practitioners and contributors that will effectively form a strong and sustainable innovation culture to power success for the organization, not just for the moment, but for the lifetime of the organization.
And here is some information on this FREE virtual conference:
If you’re not familiar with the Pipeline Conference, it is a virtual conference with more than 4,000 participants from 95 countries over the past four years. PIPELINE offers product development practitioners access to experts as well as practical information they can use right away – all from the comfort of their desks. From idea to launch to end-of-life, the content will appeal to any professional involved in the end-to-end product development process. In addition, the newly designed PIPELINE virtual platform serves as a resource center for 12 months following the live event with new content each quarter.
People who register for the conference get a free access to the resource center. PIPELINE 2013 was named Event of the Year category in Best in Biz Awards for virtual conference on innovative product development. For more information and to register, visit:
http://www.pipelineconference.com
I hope to see you online on June 6th for my presentation and the Q&A session!
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Speaking.com is running their annual Top 5 Speaker Awards voting, and if you’ve heard me speak, enjoyed my book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, or enjoy all of the written content and video content that I bring to the innovation community, then I’d sure love your write-in vote in the Innovation/Creativity category.
Just write in my name in the space provided (I don’t have a checkbox because they aren’t one of the speaker bureaus that represent me – yet) and scroll all the way to the bottom and fill in your FIRST NAME and EMAIL – and that’s it!
Easy as pie.
They are posting the winners January 21, 2014 so there is only ONE WEEK LEFT to vote.
I will be bringing some of my Nine Innovation Roles cards with me if you’d like to have a peek at those, and will probably have a few copies of my book with me if you’d like to purchase a personalized copy for only $25.
The first keynote will be on June 5, 2013 in Riverton, Wyoming at 7 PM.
The second keynote will be on June 7, 2013 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming at 7 PM.
In addition to these public innovation keynotes I will also be conducting full-day innovation workshops for Central Wyoming College as part of their Innovation Institute.
If you’d like to do a similar combination of public innovation keynotes and full-day or half-day innovation executive education with me at your college or university, please contact me.
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In support of my crowdfunding project over on IndieGoGo I am offering an incredible deal to the first FIVE (5) organizations to grab this perk:
For $2,000 + expenses I will:
Deliver a SIXTY (60) minute innovation keynote and Q&A session
Deliver a SIXTY (60) minute Nine Innovation Roles diagnostic workshop for up to 60 participants
Bring TEN (10) Nine Innovation Roles Group Diagnostic Tools to use with the workshop participants
Normally I charge anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000 + expenses for innovation workshops and keynotes depending on the length and amount of custom content, so this is a crazy deal.
The Nine Innovation Roles diagnostic workshop will create a fun, interactive experience for innovation teams or organizations to use to help people better understand what roles they fill on innovation projects, why the team’s or organization’s innovation efforts are failing, and how they can together improve the innovation performance of their teams or organization.
So, grab this Amazing Innovation Keynote and Nine Innovation Roles Workshop Deal and help your innovation teams be more successful in the future. Don’t wait. Be one of only FIVE (5) organizations to get this perk, or pre-order the group diagnostic tool or seminar kit and run a team building exercise of your own.
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