FUTURE RACE

July 22, 2021 | Anthony Mills

CEOs come and CEOs go.   Some – like Steve Jobs at Apple, Jeff Bezos at Amazon, and Richard Branson at Virgin – are excellent.   They generally ‘get it’.   Others – like Steve Balmer at Microsoft, Jeff Immelt at GE, and Dick Fuld at Lehman Brothers – not so much.   They really ‘don't get it’.   What makes the difference between these ‘good’ CEOs and their ‘not so good’ counterparts?

May 27, 2021 | Anthony Mills

There's an insidious debate that's bounced around for probably the better part of twenty years now.   It's the debate of whether or not ‘innovation is everyone's job’.   Some think that ‘innovation is everyone's job’ because we have to bring the entire organization into the grand practice of innovation and engage them in finding new opportunities to pursue, and innovative new solutions for those opportunities; plus...

May 15, 2019 | Anthony Mills

Innovation Spaces – which can refer to any space intentionally designed to foster and facilitate good innovation work – come in all sorts, shapes, and sizes.   Perhaps the most commonly understood of these is the ubiquitous Innovation Lab.   However aside from formal "labs" per se, Innovation Spaces can also be incorporated in many ways into other, more comprehensive spaces...

Jan 17, 2019 | Anthony Mills

Have you ever been on a plane flight where as you take off all you can see out the window is hazy and overcast weather, only to at some time later have your flight break through and emerge above the clouds, where all of sudden the sun is shining bright and clear?   If so, you'll know how this gives one a sense of achieving clarity after having a long period of uncertainty and doubt...

Jul 03, 2018 | Anthony Mills

Design Thinking is an incredibly powerful way to approach the design of just about anything that involves an interaction with people (or other intelligent creatures).   Its underlying philosophy of Human Centered Design requires that we develop a comprehensive empathic understanding of the customer and their situation in a particular context.   This can only happen when ...

Jun 29, 2018 | Anthony Mills

Ever notice that some organizations seem to be far more consistent at delivering new innovation than most?   I have.   Ever wonder why this is... what they do differently?   I certainly have.

Indeed, like so many others before me, I've spent my entire adult life working in and around organizations that ...