Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2014
Instead of sending Christmas cards and buying presents to our clients, Innotiimi makes annually a donation to a project which resonates with Innotiimi’s values. This year we make donation to the new children’s hospital that will be built in Helsinki. As a partner of Innotiimi I wish you all merry Christmas…
Radical innovation evening 6.6.2013
Is your business in decline? Or do you fear it might soon be so? Or perhaps you have opened your eyes already and you want to prevent it going downhill early enough? If you answered to one or the other of the questions by YES, the RadiCamp evening on the…
Greatest risk is to play always safe
Let us imagine a company that has reached a status of market leadership through its innovative products and services. The road to the leading position may well have been a tough fight against thecompetition. Innovation work has been successful, and a great deal of the new stuff has been radical: Many…
The cornerstone of innovation
Innovation happens no longer somewhere in deep basements of geek departments. Modern innovation can be seen as a creative way of putting existing and new building blocks together. Have a look at this short and simple 1 minute video.
A mega trend in working life: well being
What words did you use last time when you said no to a meeting request? Or, how did you respond when you could not join for a beer with friends last time? I would guess it was something like: “Sorry, I have already another meeting in my calender already.” or…
Steve Jobs about Leadership
Steve Jobs was and Apple still is one of the biggest succes stories of the last decade. Arguably his leadership style divided the opinions of people quite in a black and white manner. However, he brought Apple to where Apple now is. A while ago I found this short video…
Steve Jobs about the importance of sharing the same vision
Steve Jobs: “Here is what you find at a lot of companies. You know how you see a show car, and it’s really cool, and then four years later you see the production car, and it sucks? And you go, what happened? They had it! They had it in the…
Would you hire Roger Federer to play tennis or to sing?
Example I will start with a simplified and maybe naive example to set the scene. Let’s assume that you know that your business success depends on how well your organization is able to play tennis and sing. You have two employees: Roger Federer and Madonna. How would you organize your…
How to kill any good idea?
Every human being likes to think. Each and every one of us is creative. We human beings love our own ideas. You know what? That is great! We are creative from our birth until we step into the world of money and hierarchy. In this world it is not always…
Leadership and sailing – they have actually a lot in common
Leadership and sailing – business and sport. They have actually awful lot in common. Sailing, especially racing, is 100% team sport and it goes even further. A large sailboat has that large number (around 15 of them) different controls and trims that you can tweek. Nobody can handle them alone….
The truth about what motivates us
Thanks for Juha for finding this great video from YouTube. This hits right to the point of understanding the truth about what really motivates us. Money is a good motivator but it is by far not the best motivator of all…
Thoughts about social media and question based leadership
I am convinced that social media is here to stay and has an effect to the way you do business. You cannot stop it and actually you should not try stop it. The word of mouth, good and bad, will spread. Timing is becoming crucial. Even more crucial it used…
innovation: take a big pen and small paper.
Maybe the most important thing when inventing something new is to get started. Get started from the beginning, middle or the end. It does not really matter where you start, as long as you do start. Start with a big pen and small paper. You cannot draw anything small with…
Manage things – lead people
Today I was planning to write a blog about leadership (and management). Actually I decided to bin the text I had already written and just post this picture that I found in the internet. This cartoon summarizes so brilliantly what leadership is all about. By whatedsaid | View this Toon…
Apparent productivity in white-collar work
What is productivity? Wikipedia definition for productivity is: What does that mean in Blue-collar work? The productivity of manufacturing and other manual labor (Blue-collar) is pretty easy to measure and control. More input means more output. More hours labor in means more products or services out. Streamlining of the processes…
Shifts in scarcity and abundance
Shift in market dynamics It is really nothing new that business is based on exploiting scarcity. You create something scarce and sell it with profit. Great stuff! But when the scarce things become common you need to rethink what you are actually doing. The same thing happens when some common…
Extreme creativity
I found this link a while ago in the internet. Thanks to Karl for the German version, that gave me the push to find this English translation. This story is yet hilarious and it describes brilliantly how to think creatively. It also illustrates how the “commonly agreed truth” or so…
Permission marketing
Isn´t it so annoying when your favorite movie or football game is brutally interrupted by some desperate corporate trying to sell you more washing powder, cars, beverages or something else? I guess very likely your answer is yes. Probably you are more likely not to buy that particular brand that…
Innovation as side product of another creative process
Like many of today’s great inventions, the microwave oven was a by-product of another technology. It was during a radar-related research project around 1946 when Dr. Percy Spencer, an engineer with the Raytheon Corporation, noticed something very unusual. He was testing a new part of the radar system (a vacuum…
First things first: “time management for dummies”
The key to be efficient in your private life, in your working life or in meetings is the time management. In other words, doing the first things first – prioritizing the important things above the less important things. But what is really important? How should you prioritise your time? There…
Richard Branson: Creative thinking, challenging the status quo
Today’s blog is actually a short story about Richard Branson and how he demonstrated creative thinking and was challenging the status quo when his flight at Caribbean was cancelled. Branson arrived to airport in Puerto Rico. Suddenly, which is not uncommon at Caribbean, his flight to Virgin Islands was cancelled….
What is Innovation?
INNOVATION What is Innovation? Most people understand “innovation” as a product, service or idea that has created major change in human behavior. Think about things that have turned the world upside down like: internet, Google, Apple, amazon.com or electricity, wheel, telephone, frozen food and Darwin´s theories. There is no question…
Change management: Dealing with the fears of people
Probably the most important thing, when managing the change at workplace, is to understand how your team perceives the change. What does the change really mean to the people as individuals. You should try to understand their fears, expectations and involve them to open discussion about the change you are…
Launch your product now
When is the right time to launch your product? When is the right time to expand your business to new markets? Probably sooner than you think. Most likely today. Get out there immediately when your product is ready to do what is was meant to do. Remember that you should…
The only constant is change
What is the rework365 all about? We have something new to say about building, running and growing a new or established businesses. Our approach is not based on academic theories. It is based on practical experience. We have been operating in international high-tech business more than 15 years. We have…