Mastering The Hype Cycle

As Seth Godin points out in a recent blog posting, there is often a long preamble to the trigger that launches an innovation on its path up to the Peak of Inflated Expectation. In Mastering the Hype Cycle, we track the advent of usage-based car insurance offerings (such as Snapshot from Progressive Insurance) back to [...]

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Powerpoint gets a lot of bad press, often for good reason (see for example the NY Times article We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint). But the power of a good graphical representation as a focal point for discussion transcends the medium that delivers it — flip chart, Powerpoint or, as in the very first [...]

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Every now and then you need to inspire your internal audience and remind them what the power of the microprocessor will make possible. Moore’s law isn’t done with us yet. Here are some links to videos – not all of them brand new – but still likely to help drop jaws and get people talking. [...]

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At a recent Gartner event I conducted an informal poll of 16 emerging technology managers. The results showed that most were experiencing relative stability in their staffing and funding. Less than 10% had experienced, or were projecting, staff cuts, and half were expecing to grow their staffing and funding levels by 2010. This may be counter to [...]

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Spreading the word within your organization about a great new idea can be one of the toughest parts of the innovation process. As we evolved the STREET model for innovation adoption, we added “Evangelize” as a distinct stage because many of our clients who run emerging technology groups for a living told us they spend [...]

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A CIO at the recent Sydney Symposium described to me how he had set up a number of activities to drive innovation within his organization, from early stage “sandpits” for experimentation, through “hothouses” for nurturing promising ideas, to later stage “engine rooms” for rolling out new ideas in a disciplined way. In addition to the [...]

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