The Innovators Studio with Phil McKinney

This weeks podcast is a recording of a recent speech I gave titled “Practical Innovation Skills”.

The underlying theme was on using creativity, innovation and ingenuity techniques to achieve ALL of your objectives – not just your work/professional objectives.  What do I mean by objectives?

ob·jec·tive  [uhb-jek-tiv] – something that one’s efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target

Isn’t that what creativity is all about?  We tend to overlook the practical uses of the creative tools and skills we use at work/school in our everyday lives.  For example, how about using some of those same skills to be creative in selecting the next vacation spot for your family.  How?  Using the FIRE process that is the core of the Killer Innovations approach.

* Focus: What countries or continents have you not been to?  What vacation activities have you not tried before?

* Ideation: What activities could we do within the area of focus that allows all of the family members to enjoy their hobby/passion?  What have been the one experience your spouse has always wanted to do?

* Rank:  What are the best ideas from the list of possible vacations?

* Execution:  Go have the vacation!

What is holding you back from bringing your full creative ability to everything you do?

This podcast is made possible by support from thenextbench.com and the Heritage of Innovation interview series.

Many people think touch is a “new” thing as result of products introduced in the last few years.  In reality, touch is just one example of innovations building on top of previous innovations.  This weeks interview is with Jim Sutton.  Jim led the team that introduced the first touch PC in 1983!

As it normally goes, the interview gets off track and covers a wide range of topics including:

* HP 150 and how the product came about

* The creation of graphics user interfaces

* The challenges of companies to innovate outside their core area of existing product and serivces

* Advice for future innovators

* Discussion on the team bonding experience and life after a market impacting innovation

For more information on the HP 150, visit:

* HP Journal 1984 , Volume , Issue August-1984

* HP Museuem (not affiliated with HP) The HP 150

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

This weeks podcast is an interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, that occurred during the recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.  The interview covered a wide range of topics including:

* The spark that pushed him to create the web

* The early challenges that almost caused the web not to happen

* The roles of CEOs to support the open-platform model

* The future of data on the web

* The web foundation

* What the future of the web will look like

Transcript of the interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

As part of the continuing set of interviews with innovation thought leaders, this week’s podcast is part 2 of a 2 part interview with Geoffrey Moore.

As with any interview, I came in with a set of planned topics that I thought were interesting.  Within the first 5 minutes, they were thrown out the window and we went “off script.”  Geoffrey’s thinking and writing have shaped the thinking of entrepreneurs around the world and every time I get together with him, I learn something.

Hopefully, you enjoy this interview as much fun as I did recording it.

The full show notes and partial transcript is posted over at thenextbench.com