Killer Innovations with Phil McKinney - A Show About Ideas Creativity And Innovation Podcast
1) How to See Opportunities Others Miss
In 2005, I had a ten-minute conversation at San Jose Airport that generated billions in revenue for HP. But here's what's fascinating: three other HP executives heard the exact same conversation and s...Show More
2) 5 Questions That Spot Breakthroughs Before They Happen
In October 1903, The New York Times published an editorial mocking the idea of human flight, stating that a successful flying machine might take “from one to ten million years” to develop ...Show More
3) I Evaluated Over 30,000 Innovation Ideas at HP: Here’s Why Most Failed
Your best innovation ideas aren't losing to bad ideas – they're losing to exhaustion. I know that sounds counterintuitive. After 30 years of making billion-dollar innovation decisions at HP and Cable...Show More
4) How To Master Lateral Thinking Skills
A software engineer grabbed a random word from a dictionary – “beehive” – and within hours designed an algorithm that saved his company millions. While his colleagues were working harder, ...Show More
5) How To Master Lateral Thinking Skills
A software engineer grabbed a random word from a dictionary – “beehive” – and within hours designed an algorithm that saved his company millions. While his colleagues were working harder, ...Show More
6) Why ‘Fail Fast’ Innovation Advice Is Wrong
The most popular piece of innovation advice in Silicon Valley is wrong—and it's killing great ideas before they have a chance to succeed. I can prove it with a story about a glass of water that sat p...Show More
7) Innovation Partnership Autopsy: HP, Fossil, and the Smartwatch Market
Innovation partnerships can create breakthrough markets—or hand them to competitors through terrible decisions. I know because I lived through both outcomes. Bill Geiser from Fossil and I had it exac...Show More
8) Why Great Innovators Read Rooms, Not Just Data
You know that moment when you walk into a meeting and immediately sense the mood in the room? Or when a proposal looks perfect on paper, but something feels off? That's your intuition working—and it's...Show More
9) Why Your Best Employees Are Sabotaging Your Decisions (And How to Fix It)
The $25 Million Perfect Presentation Picture this: You're in a conference room with 23 executives, everyone has perfect PowerPoint presentations, engineering milestones are ahead of schedule, and you'...Show More
10) 3 Innovation Decision Traps That Kill Breakthrough Ideas (And How to Avoid Them)
Every breakthrough innovation starts the same way: everyone thinks it's a terrible idea. Twitter was dismissed as “breakfast updates.” Google looked “too simple.” Facebook seem...Show More