Transfer the Job – Get the Customer to do more

Online check-in for flights is a great innovation.  Instead of standing in line at the check-in desk I can select my seat and print my boarding card at the computer on my desk (or on my smart phone).  For me, the passenger, online check-in offers time saving, control and convenience.  For the airline it means [...]

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Innovation lessons from the World’s Craziest Restaurants

I came across this remarkable story about the world’s craziest restaurants.  They include a toilet restaurant in Taiwan, a restaurant in the sky in Belgium, a prison restaurant in Italy and a graveyard restaurant in India.

Restaurant in the Sky

They are all remarkable and successful because they offer the consumer a novel experience.  Many [...]

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Ask – ‘What Business are we in?’

The CEO of Black and Decker once said, ‘People don’t go into a DIY store because they need one of our drills. They go because they need a hole in the wall.’ Wonderbra in their internal communications to staff say this, ‘We do not sell underwear. We do not sell lingerie. What we sell [...]

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