Ah, MVPs, or Minimum Viable Products. I haven’t seen many projects without them in the last few years. Yet still, I haven’t seen project success rates going up significantly either, despite what MVPs promise: building the smallest thing that will bring success. What are we doing wrong? What can we improve?
Continue reading… who’s the rightest of them all?
The insight that we do not know everything, and that we should validate our ideas with customers, is taking root in most organisations. A customer survey is often the go to tool to do so. But there’s a catch.
Continue readingThe coronavirus is all over the news, and we all feel it’s impact. For many of us, working remotely has become the new normal in just a few days time.
And so we’ve been bombarded with tips and tricks on how to make this work, and tools to help us make the transition. A small selection:
Continue readingIn order to answer this question, we would first need to define when an idea is innovative.
Opinions will probably differ. I doubt this is the most important discussion to answer the question, though.
Continue readingA personal definition of innovation that I regularly use is this:
Innovation is doing new things in a context of uncertainty.
By this definition, the process of innovation follows an uncertain path. You cannot know up front whether or not you will be successful.
Whenever I speak at a conference or other event, I ask the audience who is “innovating”. All hands always go up. But what is “innovation”, apart from a hype and a buzz word?
Let me draw from a few definitions I quite like.
