thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Your crowdsourced innovation program probably created too many ideas, so why not fund them all?

As we go through life, we experience it. And as we experience it, we make decisions to take on things that we need to do, actions that we need to take. As the world floods over us, we filter and capture an infinitesimally small portion of it, then decide to act on it. Its simply too much.

Why Chatbots Are More Important Than You Think

Stern Robots are better than friendly robots if we want humans to just get stuff done - we need our robots to be more proactive

Having your brainstorming sessions in the afternoon, will trigger more creative, out-of-the-box thinking.

Why do we ignore inventors who have submitted ideas into our innovation programs, simply because we dont like giving them the bad news that their idea may not be the right fit right now?

As we travel that road to the future faster and faster, we need to look up, focus our eyes way down the road, put on our high beams, and look as far forward as we can.

Innovation is that at its best, it’s a messy process, very experimental, and like a lot of experiments, there can be many, many failures before you see success

We dig deep into design thinking, lean, agile, AI, Chatbots and the Future of Work

What exactly is innovation, and do you know how to innovate?

Now is not the time to relax, but to turn up the volume on your innovation efforts. While you may be doing well today, this is the best time for you to prepare for the disruption that tomorrow will bring.

If everything is changing, and will change, how do you deal with the change? How can you anticipate the changes, prepare for the changes, and be ready to make the leap when the time comes?

Which of the companies are more innovative: those who talk about innovation incessantly, but do not provide any mechanism, time, or resources to building innovative products and services, or those who do?

Visionary companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook understand that they cannot rely on their core business forever – they are leveraging these good times to expand into even more market segments, probing for new products and services, and driving innovation

Chris talks about the lost art of curiosity - why have we let it go and if we really wish to innovate we need to bring it back

Chris interviews Craig Shames of Greatest Idea Ever, a site where Craig curates the Greatest Ideas Ever - Very cool, mind expanding new ideas.

When you say Innovation is everyones job, then you may have just made a huge mistake

Everyone want to be the next Elon Musk, the famous-eccentric-rich-guy-that-I-would-really-like-to-be-like. Here's how.

To change, we need help. We need structure. We need to revise our environment in order to force or trigger ourselves to the behavior that we want.

We will still need humans for a long time...

Today Chris chats with the founder of Lead Cookie, Jake Jorgovan, who grew his business from Zero to $33k MRR productized service in 6 months

We are born curious, with wide open minds. We are genetically and chemically designed to be open to new experiences from the moment we are born

If you feel stuck or uncreative, try killing your feed

How will you prepare for this future hyper mobile, hyper-connected worker and customer? Will you have the infrastructure to be able to support their requirement for just-in-time-and-place delivery of products and services, which will be their expectation?

Many people feel that innovation is not innovation unless it’s some innovative technology