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Paul Sloane If you are a brilliant innovator or a budding entrepreneur then you are probably thinking right now about starting your own business and making a great success of your wonderful idea. If you are then please read my list of 10 Questions to ask Yourself. As a taster here are the first [...]  You can increase your success in business if you can become an ideas carrier, someone who identifies, collects and communicates fresh ideas for other people’s business challenges. If you work in an office you can do this for your colleagues, your boss or the people who report to you. If you are a consultant or [...] When thing are going well we can become blinded. Success becomes a prophylactic against disruptive ideas. Why should we change a winning formula? Don’t mess with success! These are the sorts of things people say. And yet the business cemetery is littered with companies that were shooting stars – a brilliant success for a while [...] Billions of dollars are spent on developing and launching new consumer packaged goods (CPG) products each year, and some companies see tremendous success while others – don’t. Why? One secret appears to lie in the degree of senior management involvement in the creative process, according to a study by The Nielsen Company. Nielsen’s research of [...] Why does Roger Federer serve double faults? Every double fault is a failure – it gives a precious point to his opponent. He could easily cut out all double faults by slowing down his second serve to ensure that it lands safely in the service box. Yet in most long matches Federer, like most other [...] Here is a great little video clip on a favourite theme of mine. We should welcome failure. It is a natural part of the innovation process and not something to be feared or avoided. Many of the people and products that we now applaud as great successes were once seen as failures. Paul Sloane [...] The next meeting of the BQF Innovation special interest group will take place in Westminster on the morning of Wednesday July 30th. The topic is competency traps and the main presentation will be given by Richard Granger, Senior Associate at Arthur D Little. What are competency traps? They concern the aspects of a company’s skills, [...] |
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