Tim Kastelle

Create Bridges to Improve Innovation

Tim Kastelle — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:47 +1100

Ethan Zuckerman's great talk from this week's TED Global conference was just posted - it is well worth watching (the ...

Why Do We Retire at 65? An Innovation Story

Tim Kastelle — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:36 +1100

Here's an interesting question:

Innovation is the Process of Idea Management

Tim Kastelle — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:21 +1100

Here are a number of actual quotes from this week. On Monday, Mark and I had a research meeting with a colleague in the business school who does business process research. When Mark asked if ...

Concentrate on People and Process, not Tools

Tim Kastelle — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:43 +1100

Imagine that you are a unit manager in an organisation, and your CEO comes to you and says: "We need to be more innovative - you're in charge of making that happen." What's the first thing ...

An Innovation Manifesto

Tim Kastelle — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:57 +1100

There have been a few before, but h...

Aggregate, Filter & Connect in Digital Business Models

Tim Kastelle — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:51 +1100

We know the story by now: as it becomes less and less expensive to transfer digital content, the price firms can get for information-based products and services is being driven down. This has ...

Innovation Lessons from the Checklist Manifesto

Tim Kastelle — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:31 +1100

How do we deal with complexity? A while ago I suggested that one strategy that we use to handle complexity is that...

Cumulative Disruptions - the Importance of Innovation

Tim Kastelle — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:06 +1100

If anyone ever asks you why innovation is important, consider this:

Innovation Lessons from Edison

Tim Kastelle — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:03 +1100

How do we win with innovation? I've been arguing strongly that one of the key changes in thinking that we ha...

The Best Innovation Opportunity Ever

Tim Kastelle — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:05 +1100

We are facing the best innovation opportunity in the history of business right now, and everyone is missing it. The sector that provides the best opportunity for innovation right now is older a...

Innovation Inside a Value Network

Tim Kastelle — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:18 +1100

Today I will tell you why it is so hard for you to get your innovative new idea to spread quickly. Well, one of the reasons, at least. It's because the economy is so interconnected. This is ...

Who is Responsible for Innovation?

Tim Kastelle — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:59 +1100

I run across a lot of organisations that say that 'innovation' is one of their core values, but their actions don't support innovation at all. Every once in a while, one of them decides that i...

The Hardest Part of Innovation

Tim Kastelle — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:28 +1100

Margaret has started a seven week series on the myths of innovation, and I thought I'd jump in here with the biggest one...

Seeing What's Coming

Tim Kastelle — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:47 +1100

When Alexander Graham Bell developed the telephone, he offered to sell the patent to Western Union. He knew that getting the idea to spread was the hardest part, and he figured that a big firm...

Trust Agents

Tim Kastelle — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:53 +1100

I just finished reading Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and J...

Don't fit in!

Tim Kastelle — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:38 +1100

From Seth Godin today:

Herding Butterflies

Tim Kastelle — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00 +1100

John and I had a meeting yesterday with one of our research partners. Mike is the local head of knowledge management for his firm, and he's been great to work with on our network analysis ...