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System Obituary
Talking about workshop icebreakers with Prashant and here’s an idea: participants write their own tombstone or obituary. “Here lies Jack. A life spent comparing numbers on an excel spreadsheet”…. You...
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Where’s the vision
Experience suggests that a project without a vision is like a rudderless ship. A clear vision from the start is essential to the success of a project. It is like the corporate mission statement. It is...
View ArticlePut some fun back into your business
Litter bins on the street aren’t the most interesting of objects. The design is pretty standard, with variations on a couple of themes – cylindrical or rectangle and colour being the primary tool of...
View ArticleInnovation games
Innovation games are a great way of engaging stakeholders, getting them to collaborate and think creatively around solutions to problems. Here are a few I’ve recently used. Introducing a persona helps...
View ArticleThis much I know
The Observer magazine has a feature titled “This much I know“. It takes an interview with a celebrity who “share the lessons life has taught them” and distills it down into a number of key statements....
View ArticleDinosaur thinking
When Autotrader developed their cool and innovative iPhone app, they presumedly never paused to think what the DVLA would think. Let’s say you are waiting at the traffic lights and you see a car you...
View ArticleWhere would your customers stick yours?
Opposite me on the train sits a man woking on his Lenevo lap top. The Lenevo logo is small, on the top right handside of the lid. Taking pride of place, in the middle of his lap top lid is a large...
View ArticleLearning to love the uncomfortable silence
Nature doesn’t like a vacuum. It rushes to fill the void. Silences are similar. They are uncomfortable. They urge someone to break them. A good negotiator, a good sales person, a good facilitator...
View ArticleThe bus and the beach
“And what if that person was run over by a bus” is the standard question for eliciting whether they are a ‘key man dependency’. If that person was taken out of the system, would the system be able to...
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Lean startup machine and the problem with parallel dating
Can you build a business in a weekend? Can you take an idea, validate it through customer research and launch it to market in forty-eight hours? Can you pivot in the process- realise that your...
View ArticleBusiness cases are works of fiction. Try storytelling instead.
Instead of PowerPoint, use storytelling to paint a picture of what you want to achieve. A business case is little more than an educated guess. It’s a description of a current state, what you plan to do...
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