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Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute
Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute
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The First Innovation Engineering Podcast
Sun Dec 11, 2011
Hello Innovation Pioneers,
Attached to this post is the first Innovation Engineering Podcast.
I believe that will need to click on link from e-mails to get to it.
My understanding - is that you can listen to the podcast directly from the website - or you can download it to your computer - or you can sign up for it at iTunes and have it sent to you automatically.
As this is all new - we will learn it together.
Podcast #1 - is the "Ask Doug" questions from the start of Day 2 of the most recent Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute. It was recorded live on November 30, 2012 in Little Rock Arkansas.
I accept all responsibility for the recording and sound quality - I did the recording and preparation of the file myself - as I felt it was important for me to learn and understand the process.
As they usually are at Leadership Institutes - the questions are rather provocative. Most are written by skeptics.
My answers are explicit. In the style of Deming, Conway and Peters - I tell what I believe to be the truth.
Those of you who have attended the Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute - will probably find the recording takes you back to when you were sitting at your institute.
While the Podcast is brought to you by the Innovation Engineering Alliance of the NIST/MEP Network, the University of Maine and the Eureka! Ranch - the opinions expressed on this podcast are mine and mine alone.
Enjoy - and please - post your comments, ideas, advice and reactions.
The new and improved 2012 Edition of the Innovation Engineering Leadership institute kicks off in Cincinnati on January 17th - Ben Franklin's Birthday. As the Eureka! Ranch is also in Cincinnati - we anticipate it will be particularly big celebration. To sign up visit www.InnovationEngineering.info
Doug
Attached to this post is the first Innovation Engineering Podcast.
I believe that will need to click on link from e-mails to get to it.
My understanding - is that you can listen to the podcast directly from the website - or you can download it to your computer - or you can sign up for it at iTunes and have it sent to you automatically.
As this is all new - we will learn it together.
Podcast #1 - is the "Ask Doug" questions from the start of Day 2 of the most recent Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute. It was recorded live on November 30, 2012 in Little Rock Arkansas.
I accept all responsibility for the recording and sound quality - I did the recording and preparation of the file myself - as I felt it was important for me to learn and understand the process.
As they usually are at Leadership Institutes - the questions are rather provocative. Most are written by skeptics.
My answers are explicit. In the style of Deming, Conway and Peters - I tell what I believe to be the truth.
Those of you who have attended the Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute - will probably find the recording takes you back to when you were sitting at your institute.
While the Podcast is brought to you by the Innovation Engineering Alliance of the NIST/MEP Network, the University of Maine and the Eureka! Ranch - the opinions expressed on this podcast are mine and mine alone.
Enjoy - and please - post your comments, ideas, advice and reactions.
The new and improved 2012 Edition of the Innovation Engineering Leadership institute kicks off in Cincinnati on January 17th - Ben Franklin's Birthday. As the Eureka! Ranch is also in Cincinnati - we anticipate it will be particularly big celebration. To sign up visit www.InnovationEngineering.info
Doug
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Re:The First Innovation Engineering Podcast
I enjoyed listening to these questions - in particular the one at the end about the flavor of the month. I'm not sure I agree with Doug's answer on that one though. I believe human creativity is so vast, you can have a relatively focused mission and still people will come up with SO MANY IDEAS that it can be difficult for the pipeline process to keep up. That is what causes the workers to feel the "flavor of the month" feeling, even if there is a wonderful pipeline process killing off the bad ideas left and right. Still, I think if there is a shared leadership who continually help put the puzzle pieces together, and who explain how things fit together, it can be overcome. Besides, I like lots of flavors - one a month sounds great!
Seeing video of Doug might be helpful. Sometimes I found it difficult to follow where he was going with an answer, but I know seeing his hands move and punctuate and sort his words visually would help. I know podcasts are handy to listen to in the car, but when someone talks as fast and with as much complexity as Doug, those visual queues are helpful.
Way to go!
Carla Brown
Mon Dec 12, 2011
Re:The First Innovation Engineering Podcast
Great stuff - and so real. So many companies deal with so many of these issues every day. To hear it in this format lets folks know they are not alone out there - which I believe can help reduce fear.
Brian Werneke
Mon Dec 12, 2011
Re:The First Innovation Engineering Podcast
One point you made about "if there is one thing we can make the most impact with, it's to generate clarity at the start" or something to that effect was a real spark to me. It will change the way I talk about this.
I remember another one of your points from years ago about breaking down the reasons that people didn't adopt a new offering (failure of marketing plan, failure of the product plan, etc.) came down to primarily "it wasn't a very good idea in the first place". I use it all the time (have somehow lost the data) and what we're doing with clarity at the start in IEMS should radically reduce the number of things our clients are working on aren't very good ideas. Discovery exposes them.
Keep it coming!
John Steele
Tue Dec 13, 2011
Re:The First Innovation Engineering Podcast
I have listened to this a couple of times now. It was a nice refresher of how Doug speaks about innovation and the importance of innovation. I also like bringing REAL world ideas and examples into discussions.
More importantly, I like Dougs discussion on why things fail. Its not that people are stupid, its that the way they are doing it now skips so very fundamental steps also people simply learn differently. Good stuff!
Scott Broughton
Wed Dec 28, 2011
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