5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney
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5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney
A podcast for the creative mind with a short attention span. Each episode will challenge you to create ideas by asking unique, funny & sometimes crazy questions. With this short-format show of 5 minutes, you can spend more time innovating and less time listening. The show's host, Phil McKinn...
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The Overlooked Secret to Innovation
As a society, we have a problem.
Some years ago, the late Nobel Prize winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer was asked by a reporter, "Doctor, wh...
TNI-Affordance
On January 13, 2018, the people of Hawaii woke to a shocking alert on their phones and TVs. An incoming ballistic missile was on its way and that the...
TNI - Exceptionally Normal
It is normal that no two people are exactly alike. Not even twins. So the word normal should not be confused with the word average. If you leave your...
Great Leaders Keep Cool Under Fire
My grandfather had an old saying when I was growing up, "Never burn a bridge." At the time, I thought it was a strange saying. It was only later that...
Find A Way To Say 'Yes' To Non-Obvious Ideas
The world is made up of 'yes' people and 'no' people. We need more optimistic -- more hopeful people who find a way to say yes to non-obvious ideas.
Avoiding the Habit Trap
When I was growing up, one time my grandmother baked a fantastic German Chocolate cake. I can see it now -- that moist chocolate cake and rich icing....
Innovation Attitude is Innovation Success
I find it interesting that we usually get from other people exactly what we expect of them. If we are looking for friendship, we will likely receive i...
Innovation Requires Getting the Facts Right
There is an old saying that goes something like this, "Speaking with passion but without the facts is like making a beautiful dive into an empty pool....
Change Caused by Innovation
As a result of some digital spring cleaning I was doing, I found and was listening to old shows from 2005 - the first year of my podcast. Honestly, gi...
Innovation Quality is a Virtue
I was looking through some of my old idea notebooks and came across a quote that I wrote down. It is one of those quotes that cause you to pause and c...
Ageism and Innovation
Some have put forth what I believe is a false premise -- that creativity and innovation are for the young. Silicon Valley has clearly bought into this...
Innovation Communities
I'm not sure who said it first but I'll give credit to Tony Robbins for the now famous quote -- "You are the average of the five people you spend the...
Time Management
As it says in Psalm 90:10, we are allotted threescore and ten years to do with as we please. Of that, we will spend the equivalent of twenty-three yea...
So Your Idea Was Rejected
Your idea was rejected. Criticized. Dumped on. You were told to give up.
I have yet to find anyone who likes to have their ideas rejected. But i...
Innovating Using The Daffodil Principal
Want to know the secret to take ideas and make them real innovations? It is what I call the "daffodil principle" which I learned/stole from an article...
Everything I Learned About Ethics I learned in Boy Scouts
Twelve words. Millions of 11-year-old boys, and now young girls, learn it when they join Boy Scouts. It was something that I had to memorize in order...
What is Your Creative Inspiration?
I really enjoy getting behind this microphone. It is my personal creative outlet that is separate from the day job. What was it that got me to start b...
Should You Use A Data Driven Approach
The inspiration for innovation takes all forms. For some its music. For others its art. And for others its data.
When I was CTO, Mark Hurd, the...
What They Could Become
Great leaders - in business, government or society, know that when it comes to others, there is always more than meets the eye.
Earl Nightingale...
Just Do It!
Any writer, syndicated cartoonist, innovator or perhaps a podcast host; sooner or later will run into what some would call writers' block. They find t...
Be Brave To Innovate
Did you know the opposite of bravery is not cowardice? The opposite of bravery is conformity. Doing everything the same way that everybody else does i...
Innovate with Fresh Eyes
I've been in the innovation game for more than 30 years. Hard to believe. With that many years comes loads of experience but also some downsides.
What Products Could I Create Out of Unused Assets
I'm an innovation guy.
It may not say so on my business card, but that's what I do.
I encourage people, whether insid...
What product or service to stay ahead
On October 4, 1957, Russia launched a beach-ball-sized satellite named Sputnik, which orbited the Earth in just over ninety-six minutes. The previous...
Who is passionate about my product
I've never shopped at the online craft marketplace Etsy.com or even any of its competitors.
Not an area of interest for me as I'm not often in...
What is surprisingly inconvenient about my product
What is surprisingly inconvenient about my product?
The designers and engineers who work at HP face many challenges in getting their i...
How Can My Product Change in 5 Years
Do you sell atoms or bytes?
Do you think that your answer could change over the next five years? Think about Amazon and the Kindle.
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Where do we perform research and development
Where do we perform product research and development? Where else could this be done?
What is your organization's philosophy about design and d...
In What Order Do You Do the R and D Process
In the traditional R&D process, the product is developed and then handed off to the design team to "wrap" it and make it look pretty.
...
What emotional psychological or status benefit could people derive from my product
What emotional, psychological, or status benefits could people derive from using my product?
Do you have diamonds stashed away that you reckon y...
What is the process used by my customer to discover my product
Do you have a digital twin?
The concept first formed on consumer sites like Yelp, but it's becoming a catchphrase in marketing and sales.
...
Who am I not selling to because I think they can’t or won’t pay for my product?
Who am I not selling to because I think they can't or won't pay for my product?
Price is king, right? "Build 'em cheap and stack 'em high" is pr...
What are your unshakable beliefs about what your customers want
One thing is to know what your customers want to do, another is to understand how they intend to get it done.
It's easy to look at thei...
What are the criteria to select research and development projects
What are your criteria for deciding that an idea is worth pursuing? We all have our own set of selection criteria, the first of which is usually looki...
What are we throwing away because we assume it has no value
My wife is famous for being a little frugal.
She once routed me and our son Logan from Las Vegas to Phoenix to Los Angeles and finally to San J...
Could I create a standardized offering of a custom product
One of the first products I created as a software developer was a touch-typing program called Typing Instructor .
This was back in 1985, and at...
Who complains about my product
A few years ago, a passenger complaint letter to Virgin Atlantic circulated around the web.
It was very long, fully illustrated with photos, cle...
What input, if reduced, would allow me to cut the price by 25 percent
There is a reason that the percentage in this question is as high as it is.
Sure, it would sound less scary and more reasonable if I ask...
Who do I not want to use my product now, but may want to in the future
We tend to assume that any customer is a good customer.
However, if you find that you're working like crazy and have a solid and reliabl...
Who is using my product in a way I never intended and how
Once a product has sold, it's pretty much out of your control.
You may have an idea why people will buy it, and what they'll do with it,...