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One of the criticisms leveled at many of the Proof of Concept projects I have been involved with is that they do not produce robust products that are successful in the marketplace.  Until very recently, I have not been involved in any funded work that looks at incubation - hatching good ideas and nurturing them [...]

Clips on slime: applying measuring clips to lovely green slime and looking for a healthy voltage across the whole organism.
A while back I read an article by Skinner & Spira (see below) which talks about a continuous line between two extreme management positions – of trust at one end, and control at the other. When [...]

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 [...]