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philmckinney

Phil McKinney, retired CTO of HP and the creator, and host of Killer Innovations podcast and radio show has been credited with forming and leading multiple teams that FastCompany and BusinessWeek list as one of the “50 Most Innovative”.

His recognition includes Vanity Fair naming him the “The Innovation Guru”, MSNBC and Fox Business calling him "The Gadget Guy" and the San Jose Mercury News dubbing him the "chief seer".

Podcast and Syndicated Talk Radio Shows:

https://KillerInnovations.com
http://ToNewIdeas.com

Book:

https://BeyondTheObvious.com

WiKi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_McKinney

Posted on Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Why 80 Percent of Innovation Consultants Are Not Worth the Money

by philmckinney

This show might come off as controversial to those who are innovation consultants. However, these are my personal views on the subject. Consultants can have a significant effect on an organization for better or worse. We will discuss innovation consultants and why I believe 80% of them are not worth the money. Innovation Consultants A […]

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Posted on Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Walt Disney’s Plus It Approach To Better Ideas

by philmckinney

Innovations can happen in any industry and a variety of different ways. We are going to take a deeper dive into part of the FIRE framework known as ideation. We will focus on combining individual ideation and team ideation. On this week’s show, we will discuss Walt Disney’s “Plus it” approach and how it changed the […]

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Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Medical Innovations Amidst a Global Pandemic

by philmckinney

Throughout the show’s history, we’ve done interviews with medical professionals and those pursuing innovations in the medical field. This week’s guest created a breakthrough product used during this global pandemic. Clive Smith, the CEO and founder of Thinklabs joins us on the show. We will discuss a medical innovation and what he’s doing to disrupt […]

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Posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2020

5 Questions Every CEO Should Answer About Innovation

by philmckinney

For the first time, we are recording a show in the mobile studio in Austin, Texas. Once we get past COVID, we plan to travel a lot more and visit different innovators in various areas of the country. This past week, I interviewed three CEOs of billion-dollar companies for a virtual event online. I asked them […]

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Posted on Tuesday, November 3, 2020

6 Innovation Metrics (KPIs) Every Organization Should Use

by philmckinney

This week, we look at an old show that has recently come up. It is a show I did in February of 2012 about innovation metrics. We’ll discuss the core set of innovation metrics that every organization should use. Bad Metrics Before we get started, I want to address one thing: bad metrics. They are […]

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Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2020

7 Must Have Features of Your IMS – Idea Management System

by philmckinney

This week, we will continue the discussion on the FIRE framework and expound upon it. We will discuss a technology that will enable your FIRE framework, known as an Idea Management System (IMS). Idea Management System The Idea Management System supports everything from the focus, ideation, and ranking, to managing your funnel for the execution […]

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Posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Innovation Lean Canvas – A One Page Innovation Plan

by philmckinney

This week’s show is a follow-up to the Execution show where I did a one minute intro to the Innovation Lean Canvas. If you haven’t listened to that episode, make sure to click here. The innovation lean canvas is a structure that we teach in all of our Disruptive Ideation Workshops. It is an innovation […]

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Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Execution – Turning Ideas Into Innovations

by philmckinney

On this week’s show, we will wrap up the series of shows on the innovation framework known as FIRE. We will discuss the part of the innovation framework known as execution. Execution is composed of making your best ideas into something real. Execution I have used the FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Ranking, Execution) framework for more […]

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Posted on Tuesday, October 6, 2020

How to Select the Best Ideas

by philmckinney

This week’s show is a continuation of the series I’ve done on the innovation framework FIRE. We have discussed focus and ideation in previous shows. We will discuss the part of the innovation framework known as ranking, which helps you prioritize the best ideas you or your team generate. Ranking Innovation is about challenging an […]

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