Ideas with Legs

In this video, we'll explore three effective ways to keep our innovative thinking active, even in the era of AI tools. Let's dive right in! ⦿ First, let's talk about balancing automation with creativity. One effective strategy is to allocate dedicated time solely for creative tasks, separate from any automation. While this may seem like a bold move, it ensures that we maintain clarity...

In this video, I'm going to show you how to/ answer the question: What are 3 ways that we can roll out an educational initiative to ensure that we've got AI mastery while having a deep rooted innovative mindset? Discover three practical ways to seamlessly integrate AI solutions into your existing workflow processes. ⦿ Phased Implementation: Instead of diving headfirst into AI adoption, sta...

In this podcast, I'm going to talk about something we often wonder: What is a problem solving process? Here’s a quick rundown of what you’re about to learn: ⦿ Identifying the Core Issue: Explore the root cause by analyzing behavior, logistics, or environmental factors. ⦿ Unorthodox Brainstorming: Elevate solutions with unconventional thinking—substitute, combine, reverse, adapt, multiply, magn...

In this video, I'm going to show you how to answer the question 3 Ways to craft a positive AI narrative for innovation. Crafting a positive AI narrative for innovation! 🚀 Here are three key takeaways ⦿ Share success stories and case studies to show how AI makes life easier. ⦿ Frame AI as "augmented intelligence" to emphasize its role in boosting productivity. ⦿ Foster transparency t...

In this video, I'm going to show you how to/ answer the question 3 ways that you can seamlessly integrate your AI solutions into your existing workflow processes Discover three effective ways to seamlessly integrate AI solutions into your existing workflow processes. ⦿ Phased Implementation: Instead of diving headfirst, start small with a pilot program. Evaluate, gather feedback, and improve b...

Is creativity a talent or is it a skill? Good question. And the answer is kind of, could be both. Well, let me explain. Why is creativity a talent? Or a skill. Well, most people wrongly believe that you have to be born creative in order to be a creative genius. Not true. While there are some people that inherently have creative behaviors that have just naturally been there from a very early age, a...

What is the last step in problem solving? Well, I would say that it is solution implementation. Here's why. At the end of the day, we've got, we think we've come up with a solution, but if we don't know how to actually implement that solution, then we haven't effectively solved the problem. And I think there are four things that we can consider when it comes to solution impleme...

I'm going to talk about something we often wonder: What distinguishes between a leader and a follower in terms of innovation? First up, let's start with a leader. So a leader is usually someone who has discovered an insight before anyone else, or at least they've been able to capitalize on that insight before Anyone else That might be a customer frustration, a need or desire. Or an eme...

What is creativity? This is a question I get asked very often. Three ways to think of creativity. One, think of it like a mixing pot of all of your thoughts. Just imagine you are cooking something, throwing in a stack of different ingredients, mixing 'em differently to see what pops up. It's a mix of experiences, thoughts, and curiosity. Number two, think of creativity, like connecting unl...

Here is a question I get a lot. What are the skills necessary for becoming an innovation consultant? Well, for over 20 years I've been doing just that. So here's a few things I think that you need to have. Number one is curiosity, and that is really the skill of being able to ask questions and to investigate why. Why does someone have a problem? Why does someone have a need or a frustratio...

What does creativity mean to me? How do I define it and what ways have I been creative in my career? Great question. So let's start off with the first component, which is around defining creativity. Creativity for me. Is about the ability to approach a problem and to generate ideas that people haven't considered before. It's about changing our level of thinking so that we see a problem...

I'm going to talk about something we often wonder: What are innovation consultant services and what probs do they solve? First up, let's look at products. So if your company's looking at inventing a ,or creating a new product, that's where an innovation consultancy can help. Well, they help you to either look at what new insights or customer needs might be out there or frustrations...

I'm going to talk about something we often wonder: What's the difference between disruptive innovation, radical innovation, discontinuous innovation and breakthrough innovation? So disruptive innovation is kind of like the cool kid who crashes the party completely uninvited. And when we think about that from an innovation perspective, yes, we want people to change things up, but at the sam...

I'm going to talk about something we often wonder: What’s the difference between creativity and innovation and which one is better? Well, it's a tough question, but really simply put, creativity is like the spark that creates the fire. For you to cook up some amazing things. Now, reality is we need to have creative ideas. That is when we are curious, when we explore, when we dare to questi...

Here is a question I get a lot. What are the four characteristics of innovation? Well, the first one is it starts off with an insight that is a human truth, a belief, an obvious pain point, or a frustration or an unmet need or desire, or even emerging trend that hasn't been capitalized on yet. Two, it's about having an idea that effectively solves. That problem that you've identified o...

Here's a question I get a lot! So what's the difference between creativity and innovation and which one's better? Well, it's a tough question, but really simply put, creativity is like the spark that creates the fire. For you to cook up some amazing things. Now, reality is we need to have creative ideas. That is when we are curious, when we explore, when we dare to question, when w...

If you've ever looked for brainstorming techniques on Google, you'll know there are a LOT of different brainstorming techniques out there, and it's really tricky to work out which ones are the most effective and trying to remember them all. So I've spent a stack of time checking with my clients from the last 20 years to find out which ones I've taught them are the most effective and most used, all...

I like goals, but goals don’t prompt action. I’ve looked back over the questions that prompt the most innovative growth results for my clients, and I’ve carefully curated a list of the most effective ones. The 21 questions I have included are powerful. They may seem simple, but that does not belittle their effectiveness . If you can commit to answering just a few of these questions, I can guarante...

Sorting and assessing other people's ideas is time-consuming, frustrating and often a waste of time. Especially when you consider how few ideas submitted are focussed on business growth innovation. But there's a better way to handle it. Hang around, and I'll show you how. Like supermarket self-checkouts get you to do their work for them, you can get people to do work for you, by self-assess their...

In this session, I want to share a critical business innovation growth skill that is hard to master but will pay off forever. It will help you avoid costly mistakes and take you into the upper echelon of innovation leadership. From my 20 years of working in the business innovation industry, I’ve noticed that there is one common mistake that leaders make when it comes to business growth innovation....

Most people will tell you that you need an innovation structure, multiple procedures, company-wide training and an innovation team to run an effective innovation program. They're WRONG! It's one of the reasons so many of these initiatives fail. People make them too complex, stifling business growth innovation rather than enabling it. Today, I will show you the critical concepts you need to run a b...

Want to get over the no budget hurdle? If you’re a business leader who feels like the number one thing stopping you from getting those breakthrough results is not having any budget. Then you’ll love what I’m going to share today. It will help you go from feeling under-resourced and unloved to feeling like your money is the least of your problems. In this session, you’re going to learn 2 simple yet...

You don’t have to risk your job or business reputation to achieve business growth innovation. It’s the myth I bust most often. People see other leaders that have achieved growth rapidly and think they had to risk everything to do it...they don’t. In fact, they SHOULDN’T... In this session/ video/ article/ post, you will learn the exact 3 proven ways I help organisations and leaders create risk-fre...

Creating business growth innovation for a non-product based business is simpler than you might think. That's why so many leaders like you miss out on the growth results you deserve. Because most leaders think innovation is only for production based companies. WRONG! Not breaking this faulty thinking is likely to cost you financially and emotionally. Find out how you can use the leverage techn...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll have heard of the term ‘innovation disruption’ or ‘disruptive innovation. But do you really know what it means, and more importantly, is it worth chasing? Disruptive innovation theory is complex and confusing, so almost everyone makes up their own definition and loosely calls anything that creates a disruption in an industry a disruptive innovation. A...