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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

RSVP for the Geek Train to .NET Fringe

RSVP for the Geek Train to .NET Fringe

By Adron Hall on March 17, 2015

The .NET Fringe Conference guests coming from northern Cascadia (north of Portland) will have the excellent benefit of taking the Geek Train to the conference. It’s also only $10 friggin’ bucks! RSVP link here | RSVP link here | RSVP link here | RSVP link here | RSVP link here Departure We’ll depart Saturday, April 11th at 2pm, with an ETA […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged .NET, .NET Bits, asp.net, asp.net mvc, community, conferences, geek, hack, Hackathon, microsoft, portland

Will customers adopt your innovation? Hope, fear and jobs-to-be-done

Will customers adopt your innovation? Hope, fear and jobs-to-be-done

By Hutch Carpenter on March 19, 2014

When will a customer decide your innovative product or service is worth adopting? It’s a question that marketers, strategists and others spend plenty of time thinking about. The factors are myriad and diverse. In this post, let’s examine two primary elements that influence both if an innovation will be adopted, and when it would happen: Decision weights assigned […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Daniel Kahneman, decision weights, geek, innovation, innovation adoption curve, innovation diffusion curve, jobs to be done, jtbd, kahneman, loss aversion, mba

Why crowdsourcing works

Why crowdsourcing works

By Hutch Carpenter on March 6, 2014

Crowdsourcing is a method of solving problems through the distributed contributions of multiple people. It’s used to address tough problems that happen everyday. Ideas for new opportunities. Ways to solve problems. Uncovering an existing approach that addresses your need. Time and again, crowdsourcing has been used successfully to solve challenges. But…why does it work? What’s […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cognitive diversity, crowdsourcing, geek, innovation, innovation management, problem-solving, social networks | 1 Response

Bell Labs Created Our Digital World. What They Teach Us about Innovation.

Bell Labs Created Our Digital World. What They Teach Us about Innovation.

By Hutch Carpenter on April 16, 2012

What do these following crucial, society-altering innovations have in common? Transistors Silicon-based semiconductors Mobile communication Lasers Solar cells UNIX operating system Information theory (link) They all have origins in the amazing Idea Factory, AT&T’s Bell Labs. I’ve had a chance to learn about Bell Labs via Jon Gertner’s new book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged bell labs, geek, information theory, innovation, mba, semiconductors

Is Google+ More Facebook or More Twitter? Yes

Is Google+ More Facebook or More Twitter? Yes

By Hutch Carpenter on July 13, 2011

Quick, what existing social network is Google+ most likely to displace in terms of people’s time? Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook Claire Cain Miller, New York Times This isn’t a Facebook-killer, it’s a Twitter-killer. Yishan Wong, Google+ post A hearty congrats to Google for creating an offering that manages to be compared […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged collaboration, facebook, geek, google, google plus, social networks, twitter | 4 Responses

Four reasons enterprise software should skip native mobile apps

Four reasons enterprise software should skip native mobile apps

By Hutch Carpenter on June 6, 2011

The desire to “consumerize” mobile apps for their own sake is stoking today’s outsized enthusiasm with device-specific enterprise mobile apps at a time when HTML5 is right there staring us all in the face. Tony Byrne, Enterprise 2.0 B.S. List: Term No. 1 Consumerization The runaway success of the iPhone app store has demonstrated that […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged AdMob, android, Apple, appstore, enterprise 2.0, geek, Handhelds, html5, iOS, iphone, mobile apps, mobile html, Mobile operating system | 2 Responses

Three Pluses, Three Minuses of Quora as a KM System

Three Pluses, Three Minuses of Quora as a KM System

By Hutch Carpenter on January 28, 2011

Knowledge Management (aka “KM”) is a field that I don’t have personal experience in. It’s supposed to be practices, processes and systems where valuable knowledge of workers is collected and made available for others. KM continues to be an important topic for enterprises these days, but it also freighted with many failures and disappointments. Without […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Product reviews | Tagged American Idol, enterprise 2.0, geek, km, knowledge management, Quora, social networks, Yahoo Answers | 1 Response

Three Reasons Google Should Acquire Delicious from Yahoo

Three Reasons Google Should Acquire Delicious from Yahoo

By Hutch Carpenter on December 17, 2010

So the news is out. Yahoo plans to shutter Delicious, the largest social bookmarking site. Which is shocking, particularly among the tech savvy and socially oriented. Delicious is iconic for its application of social sharing and collective intelligence. Hard to believe Yahoo wants to shut it down. But wait…this doesn’t have to be the end. […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged del.icio.us, facebook, geek, google, hacker news, social bookmarking, yahoo | 2 Responses

Phone Cameras + Social Are Expanding the Historical Record

Phone Cameras + Social Are Expanding the Historical Record

By Hutch Carpenter on November 8, 2010

“There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.” In a critique of the rise of Instagram (current photo sharing app du jour), Laurie Voss argues that the rise of cheap, low fidelity cameras on phones is undermining the data contained in them. And it’s not just […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile, Trends & Concepts | Tagged camera, email, facebook, geek, History, iphone, lincoln, phones, social media, twitter, us airways | 1 Response

iPad’s Climb Up the Disruptive Innovation Cycle

iPad’s Climb Up the Disruptive Innovation Cycle

By Hutch Carpenter on October 5, 2010

Blockbuster’s recent bankruptcy filing was yet another chapter in the Clayton Christensen annals of disruptive innovation. A major brand with convenient locations that got disrupted by a website and the U.S. Mail. Note that we’re seeing the backend of the disruption, when it all seems so clear. How easy is it to see such a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apple, disruption, flickr, geek, innovation, ipad, laptops, productivity, touchdraw | 2 Responses

Should BP crowdsource solutions to solve the Gulf oil spill?

Should BP crowdsource solutions to solve the Gulf oil spill?

By Hutch Carpenter on May 26, 2010

Clifford Krauss of the New York Times reports on BP’s latest effort to cap the oil leak, called “top kill”. He notes the following: The consequences for BP are profound: A successful capping of the leaking well could finally begin to mend the company’s brittle image after weeks of failed efforts, and perhaps limit the […]

Posted in General | Tagged bp, crowdsourcing, geek, oil spill, open innovation | 9 Responses

Foursquare Check-in Etiquette

Foursquare Check-in Etiquette

By Hutch Carpenter on May 12, 2010

Anyone remember the early complaints about Twitter? That people were posting updates about what they’re eating for lunch? Robert Scoble noted this phenomenon in a blog post from last September about Twitter’s rise: It tells me that Twitter isn’t lame anymore. Remember those days when Twitter was for telling all your friends you were having […]

Posted in General | Tagged bart, facebook, foursquare, gas stations, geek, gowalla, location based services, pizza, twitter | 1 Response

Six Factors in Emergent Innovation

Six Factors in Emergent Innovation

By Hutch Carpenter on April 21, 2010

In discussing employee-driven innovation, having a technology platform to deliver on objectives is a key part of a company’s strategy. Hard to get everyone tuned in when you rely only on email and conversations with your cubicle mates. But that’s just one factor. There are many other considerations for companies seeking to vault to the […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged community, crowdsourcing, emergent, enterprise 2.0, experiments, geek, innovation | 1 Response

The Two-Year Lag from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0

The Two-Year Lag from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0

By Hutch Carpenter on March 17, 2010

The Enterprise 2.0 sector draws heavy inspiration from innovations in the Web 2.0 world. Indeed, the name itself, Enterprise “2.0” reflects this influence. From a product management perspective, Web 2.0, and its derivations social networking and social media are great proving grounds for features before coding them into your application. A fruitful area to review […]

Posted in Analysis, Enterprise | Tagged enterprise 2.0, foursquare, geek, gowalla, location, social networking, techcrunch50, twitter, web 2.0, wikis

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