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When Andy and I were bouncing ideas for this blog around, there was a strong sense of wanting to kindle flames of creativity. The backdrop to our thinking is discussed in THIS earlier post - against a tone of dissatisfaction against the industrialisation of everything.
While digging around our ‘draft posts’ folder I ran across [...]

We were reflecting about one of our earlier innovation projects with a client, from some years ago. At that time we were working to establish an innovation incubator and we found a conflict of positions with the client - we were clearly coming from different ends of the spectrum and our ideas collided.
We’d hear comments [...]

Idea for future post: learning to fail well.
Inspiration:Mike was having a chat with a customer with 2xProof ofConcepts done and zero failures.Making me nervous - think we need to learn to fail well.Reminded of IC vision sessions - ‘expect 7/10 projects to fail, one of the other three might be a real humdinger’.

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This is the shell for a future article to talk about the confusion of “production think” versus innovation. The discipline of developing ‘for production’ may be a hindrance in establishing innovation teams to come up with new ways of doing things.
We want to touch on marketing, driving demand, turning the innovation into a production thing.

Please bear with me while I ‘think out loud’ and save this as a shell for a future post.

While talking with Andy about his ‘Clips on Slime’ diagram, it became clear that the end of a Proof of Concept (PoC) project can be rather unsatisfying. No matter how clearly we tried to explain that [...]