“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” – Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Co-founder   Aspiring entrepreneurs run into a common obstacle: they want to start a business but don’t know how others were able to do it. They don’t know the difficulties they’ll…

“Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.” ― Will Smith “When people say, ‘You’re thinking too big,’ be smart enough not to listen. And when they ask, ‘How can you do that?’, look them in the eyes and say, ‘I’ll figure it out.’” ― Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc.   10X thinking involves…

“Ideas placed in the Canvas trigger new ones. The Canvas becomes a tool for facilitating the idea dialogue—for individuals sketching out their ideas and for groups developing ideas together.”  – Alexander Osterwalder “The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding…

A Disruptive Innovation is an innovation that transforms an existing market or industry by introducing simplicity, convenience, accessibility, and affordability where complication and high cost have become the status quo. Typically, a disruptive offering gives up some attributes that appeal to a core market to gain advantages in a low-end market. The offering takes hold in…

TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) offers a set of tools and approaches to help you solve difficult, technical problems and to invent new products. TRIZ is a problem-solving, analysis, and forecasting tool derived from the study of patterns of invention in global patents. Genrich Altshuller (1926-1998), Soviet inventor and science fiction author, and his…

The basic premise of the “Jobs to be Done” framework is that people do not just buy products and services because of their features or other attributes. People hire products and services to get a job done. When customers have a job that they want to accomplish, they will look for the most convenient, effective, and…

Innovation frameworks help you to formulate and implement strategies, ideas, processes, and business models faster and more effectively than your competition. They free up mental inertia and allow you to reach your business goals in record time and with optimal results. Companies such as IBM, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and Motorola swear by these types of methodologies,…