Part Three: APPEAL – Converting Ideas into Something That Causes People to Respond
The Innovation 5 Part Three: APPEAL – Converting Ideas into Something That Causes People to Respond What makes something appealing? Is it price, color, or availability? A reliably consistent experience, flavor, or fit? A surprising new design, form, or function? Obviously, appeal takes on many shapes and sizes.…
Part Two: CONNECT – Creating New Ways to Put Things Together
The ability to connect what you see in the world in ways that deliver unexpected, elegant, useful and profitable solutions is a skill worth grooming.
Part One: SEE – The Ability to See Beyond the Ordinary
My father is an art teacher – an exceptional one, in my opinion – and his influence unquestionably inspired me to pursue a career in design.
The Innovation 5: An Introduction
When I first began thinking about what NewNorth Center could and should be, I thought a lot about the word “innovation.” I still think about it, in…
What Goes Up Must Come Down
Quite often during the process of innovation, we devote the vast majority of our creative efforts to building projects, initiatives and strategies and virtually no time planning…
The Top of the Bell Curve
I will never forget the first time I witnessed a presentation in which someone drew a bell curve on a “flimsy” placed on an overhead projector. Remember…
We Can’t Recreate the Past
What Goes Down Doesn't Necessarily Come Back Up
Necessity as the Mother of Invention
So much is being written in the business press about innovation that it's easy to wonder — what took us so long?
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