As a System Driven Innovator I am on a relentless personal quest for ways to get smarter. This past week I have had two experiences where Millennials made me smarter – and in the process shifted my mindset on how to amplify by customer insight mining effectiveness. Experience 1: Baby Boomer InterAct Session: InterAct is an Innovation Engineering system of gaining feedback from […]
Author: Doug Hall
Feb 16, 2016
Oct 24, 2015
Many companies are pulling back on innovation and R&D investment and focusing on their primary business as margin erosion and lack of demand puts pressure on their business. We have seen this with a lot of clients yet we have also worked with companies that are thinking big and looking optimistically toward the future. The […]
Oct 05, 2015
When you start in a new job you quickly learn the boundaries. You learn them from fellow employees and your boss. The boundaries are set based on the beliefs of the functional department you work in. In most cases the foundation for these boundaries were first established when you were studying at college – finance […]
Aug 14, 2015
The opening of Doug Hall’s next book – to be published January 17, 2016. INNOVATION ENGINEERING Out of the Crisis II To paraphrase Dr. W. Edwards Deming from his book Out of the Crisis. “The aim of this book is transformation of the style of management. Transformation of management is not a job of […]
Jul 16, 2015
Scientific Research Finds the Secret to Unlocking the Power of Employee Driven Innovation Did I get your attention? It wasn’t a gimmick to get you to click! Here’s the facts. Add up the value of all your LEAN, 6 Sigma and Innovation Engineering cost savings projects then multiply times 4 – that is the increase […]
Jul 15, 2015
A common theme over the past few months at companies is that they and their culture need to “Learn how to WIN again.” The conversation goes something like this… When asked if they have ever innovated they can point to when they last innovated in a disruptive LEAP fashion. They speak of the excitement, the […]
Jul 14, 2015
We’ve been research what makes for a GREAT Innovation. As background our definition of innovation is Meaningfully Unique. Our measurement system for level of Meaningful Uniqueness is based on a long term tracking study published in the Journal of Consumer Marketing Vol 14 No.3, 1997 pp 234-248 and in my book Jump Start Your Business […]