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Hutch Carpenter

Hutch Carpenter

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Strategic Consultant with HYPE Innovation, helping enterprises get more value from their innovation programs. Firm believer in the concept of jobs-to-be-done, which stresses the importance of understanding customers' wants and needs. Also sports a 2:57 marathon PR. Dad to two awesome kids.

I’m joining RevolutionCredit as Chief Scientist

I’m joining RevolutionCredit as Chief Scientist

By Hutch Carpenter on November 2, 2015

A note on my new job. I’m joining the startup RevolutionCredit as Chief Scientist. In this role, I’ll work on developing the next generation of alternative credit scoring methodologies in the financial technology field. Applying behavioral science to both (i) identify underserved people with characteristics of creditworthiness; and (ii) nudge consumers toward better financial behaviors. The […]

Posted in Business | Tagged alternative credit, behavioral economics, behavioral science, credit scoring, data science, financial inclusion, fintech, inclusive finance, mba, revolutioncredit

Why Amazon wins | Innovate the core, innovate to transform

Why Amazon wins | Innovate the core, innovate to transform

By Hutch Carpenter on September 4, 2015

Take a look at your organization’s innovation projects. Are you strategically balancing your efforts between the core business and future growth areas? In advising companies about innovation, an area I stress is the value of consciously pursuing both little and BIG innovation. Often, companies pursuing innovation can be categorized as either: Seeking small innovations such as operational […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, amazon prime, aws, fire phone, google, innovation, jobs to be done, jtbd, kindle, mba

16 metrics for tracking Collaborative Innovation performance

16 metrics for tracking Collaborative Innovation performance

By Hutch Carpenter on August 21, 2015

In a recent PwC survey, 61% of CEOs said innovation was a key priority for their company (pdf). The only surprising result there is that it wasn’t 100%. Innovation efforts come in a variety of forms: innovation and design labs, jobs-to-be-done analysis, corporate venturing, distributed employee experiments, open innovation, TRIZ, etc. In this post, I […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, collaborative innovation, corporate innovation, crowdsourcing, innovation, mba

How self-driving vehicles can fix the San Francisco housing crunch

How self-driving vehicles can fix the San Francisco housing crunch

By Hutch Carpenter on July 29, 2015

In the San Francisco Bay Area, home prices have seen significant appreciation the last few years: Source: Paragon Real Estate Group In the Bay Area, skyrocketing home prices and rents have driven people out of the area. They look for homes in further-out suburbs and exurbs, extending their commutes to work. And the Bay Area leads the nation […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged Autonomous car, autonomous vehicles, commuting, google bus, housing, hr, Human resources, mba, mortgages, parenting, San Francisco Bay Area, self-driving cars, self-driving vehicles

Avoiding innovation errors through jobs-to-be-done analysis

Avoiding innovation errors through jobs-to-be-done analysis

By Hutch Carpenter on July 8, 2015

The lean startup movement was developed to address an issue that bedeviled many entrepreneurs: how to introduce something new without blowing all your capital and time on the wrong offering. The premise is that someone has a vision for a new thing, and needs to iteratively test that vision (“fail fast”) to find product-market fit. It’s been […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged geek, innovation, jobs to be done, jtbd, kodak, mba

Jobs-to-be-done | Three tests ALL ideas must pass

Jobs-to-be-done | Three tests ALL ideas must pass

By Hutch Carpenter on January 28, 2015

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill… they want a quarter-inch hole. Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business School professor You’re awash in ideas. Ideally from running targeted campaigns, but you may be seeing them from other quarters as well. Great, then what? A key activity in the process of innovation is determining which of many […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged decision-making, Idea Evaluation, jobs to be done

Consumer adoption of Bitcoin | A jobs-to-be-done analysis

Consumer adoption of Bitcoin | A jobs-to-be-done analysis

By Hutch Carpenter on January 21, 2015

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently did one of his tweetstorms on the topic of Bitcoin, a technology he avidly supports. In 25 tweets, he talked about criticisms people have of Bitcoin. Including this one (#18) about “use cases”: 18/The third critique I call the “innocent” one — “Are there enough sufficiently compelling uses cases for Bitcoin […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged bitcoin, blockchain, currency, Electronic money, jobs to be done, jtbd, Marc Andreessen, mba, possibility effect, uncertainty effect

Rate your company's innovation culture

Rate your company’s innovation culture

By Hutch Carpenter on November 7, 2014

Culture. “Culture” is one of those terms. Hard to define, but you know it when you see it, right? I mean, we all understand what we’re talking about here, don’t we? I’d bet if you and I polled 10 people on the street, we’d get 10 different interpretations for culture. In the course of my work, […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Abraham Maslow, innovation, Innovation Culture

Radio Show Interview: Collaborative Innovation at Scale

Radio Show Interview: Collaborative Innovation at Scale

By Hutch Carpenter on September 30, 2014

The area of collaborative innovation is a natural extension of the social business movement. It’s the extension of social into purposeful collaboration, a term Alan Lepofsky uses to describe the evolution of the social business market. In the innovation-focused radio show, Women Who Innovate, host LeAnna Carey, innovation expert John Lewis and I talk about […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged blogtalkradio, collaboration, enterprise innovation, innovation, mba, Social Business

Talk-n-Tweet | Collaborative Innovation at Scale

Talk-n-Tweet | Collaborative Innovation at Scale

By Hutch Carpenter on September 24, 2014

Previously, I’ve described Why Crowdsourcing Works. Crowdsourcing is a case where you get many people who don’t one another collaborating toward a defined outcome.To reiterate the principle points about the value of crowdsourcing: Diverse inputs drive superior solutions Cognitive diversity requires spanning gaps in social networks Simple enough, yet actually a rich field for work and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, crowdsourcing, e2.0, enterprise 2.0, enterprise innovation, innochat, innovation, mba, motivations, Social Business

Harvesting Abundance in the Sharing Economy

Harvesting Abundance in the Sharing Economy

By Hutch Carpenter on September 11, 2014

The amateurs are coming! Are you ready? Over time, we have seen transitions in how goods and services are supplied to buyers. It used to be that you were limited to what you could buy in your local village. With the rise of industrialization and subsequent globalization, choices increased and costs went down. But inevitably, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged abundance, crowdsourcing, sharing economy

Avoid these 3 mistakes when asking for employee ideas

Avoid these 3 mistakes when asking for employee ideas

By Hutch Carpenter on August 7, 2014

Global advisory and research firm Ovum recently forecast 8% annual growth over the next five years for innovation management. Strong momentum, as organizations awake to the cognitive surplus their employees possess. Sadly, some companies launching employee innovation programs will inevitably find the going tough. They’ll launch their innovation initiative with great fanfare. They’ll give themselves the powerful […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged crowdsourcing, Innovation Programs

What if customers evaluated your company’s ideas?

What if customers evaluated your company’s ideas?

By Hutch Carpenter on June 19, 2014

At the 2014 HYPE Innovation Managers Forum in Bonn, I hosted a roundtable that looked at Involving Customers in the Innovation Process. There were over a dozen different corporations represented in the discussion. To spur the conversation, I mapped the points for customer involvement as: What customers want (jobs-to-be-done) ideas (open innovation) Feedback on options (collaborative design) As […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged crowdsourcing, innovation | 1 Response

Beyond Ideation: Four Fresh Ways to Generate Innovation

Beyond Ideation: Four Fresh Ways to Generate Innovation

By Hutch Carpenter on May 20, 2014

Innovation requires something new that changes the way in which an activity gets done. In this formulation, ideation is the processus maximus, the best way to get something new. It properly is the most frequent mode of innovation. It delivers results. But sometimes, it’s good to shake things up. Change up the routine to refresh the sources of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged ideation, innovation

Consultant-Led Innovation

Consultant-Led Innovation

By Hutch Carpenter on May 5, 2014

Finally, remember Innovation won’t come from plans or people outside your company – it will be found in the people you already have inside who understand your company’s strengths and its vulnerabilities. Steve Blank, Esade Business School Commencement Speech I think Steve Blank – well-respected thinker on innovation and entrepreneurship – has hit a key point […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged consultants, consulting, crowdsourcing, employees, innovation, management consulting, mba, Steve Blank | 1 Response

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