
Your innovation machine -- a key number to track (PPE over time)
Tracking Profit Per Employee (PPE) over time can tell you the true effectiveness of your innovation process.

Your innovation machine.
Is your “innovation machine” improving the profitability of your company?

Ohm’s Law and the flow of innovation.
You can dramatically improve the flow of innovation with the right methods!




Thank you for your art!
Your work in innovation is more than just a job. It’s art that makes all our lives better! Thank you!

Four considerations about competition in innovation
We often think about innovation as a competitive endeavor, but mostly you’re competing against yourself and your own standards.


Little by little, toward the number.
Life accumulates. By starting today, working toward a certain number, over time you can grow whatever you want.

8 mudas to avoid in innovation processes
Production processes have known types of wastes. Here I describe how these apply to innovation processes.
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4 moves toward personal innovation.
Innovation is not just for your company. It’s for yourself too!
Image: A US Marine Doing Pull-ups, Original Work of the US Marine Corps, Cpl. C.J. Yard, USMC (2005).

4 ways to get through the “dark nights of the innovator”
Sometimes it’s hard to get through disappointment and frustration when innovating. Here are a few ideas.

10 lessons from Bill Walsh’s “Let the score take care of itself”.
Lessons on innovation processes from Bill Walsh

Protecting time to achieve your Very Important Goal (VIG)
How to advance important initiatives, when we’re scrambling constantly with our day job?

4 lessons from a race for the impossible.
Games and races have a lot to teach us about competition in innovation!

Shifting probabilities
Use process manufacturing principles to shift probabilities of success for your next innovation!

2 interdependent practices in forecasting the future.
In 10 years, the world won’t look like what we expect today. How will you get ready?