http://open-source-innovation.com How To Transform Yourself and Your Company Into An Innovation Machine Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:15:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few months ago I wrote about The Long Tail.  The main idea behind this principle is that there is a class of commodities that eventually become so cheap they can be 'wasted' in order to exploit bigger, more valuable opportunities.  Yahoo gives offers unlimited storage to its email customers to ... http://open-source-innovation.com/heres-where-we-screwed-up-with-gas/ Today we take a look at the popular Discovery Channel series American Chopper, featuring the misadventures of the Teutul family (Senior, Junior and Mikey) and their company, custom bike manufacturer Orange County Choppers. The relationship between Junior and Senior illustrates two opposing Myers-Briggs type preferences extremely well. By now, you ... http://open-source-innovation.com/american-chopper-how-personalities-clash-at-work/ Every now and then I read an article like this one in Forbes that touts the virtues of looking outside the walls of your company for innovation. There is a whole section in Mavericks at Work devoted to this, and the concept was, in fact, a partial inspiration ... http://open-source-innovation.com/how-to-leverage-collaborative-innovation/ These seven tend to come up during Myers-Briggs workshops and can cause a lot of confusion. So without further ado... 1. Carl Jung developed the sixteen personality types. No, Myers and Briggs developed the sixteen types building on Jung's research. Jung developed his type theory by the identifying eight cognitive ... http://open-source-innovation.com/7-myths-and-misconceptions-about-myers-briggs/ Like thousands of others, I started my blog on Wordpress.com. The benefits of doing so are too many to list here. But there are a few liabilities - such as when you want to 'monetize' your blog or use it for purely business related purposes. Or when ... http://open-source-innovation.com/how-to-migrate-your-blog-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/ Have you ever witnessed an innovation that transforms everything in a culture? It doesn't happen often. Most of the time innovation improves rather than transforms. Well over 90 percent of the time, in fact. There's a good reason for that. Change is hard. In Myers-Briggs terms, most people ... http://open-source-innovation.com/how-to-transform-a-culture-with-innovation/ How could this possibly be? We rely on gas for just about everything in this country - how could high priced gas actually be GOOD for us? Because without high-priced gas, we'd have no incentive to innovate. In my article on 'Who Killed The Electric Car?' last year, I emphasized the ... http://open-source-innovation.com/high-priced-gas-is-good-for-america/ FINALLY. I'm now able to offer the Myers-Briggs Typing Indicator® (MBTI®) through the blog. To commemorate this momentous occasion - the first five people who email me get the MBTI® Step II, Form Q - normally priced at $115 - for half price: $57.50. Here's a sample of the ... http://open-source-innovation.com/half-price-myers-briggs-step-ii/ "Horton Hears a Hoo" is the latest Hollywood attempt to cash in on the legacy of Dr. Seuss. This follows two live action films - one mediocre ("How The Grinch Stole Christmas") and one catastrophically bad ("The Cat In The Hat"). "Horton" is neither - it's a solid ... http://open-source-innovation.com/they-just-dont-make-em-like-they-used-to/ Up until late last year, Verizon was a closed network. And then, this: In late November, Verizon Wireless said it would allow any device or software to run on its wireless network. It's a reversal for the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier, which had been known as the ... http://open-source-innovation.com/will-verizons-open-source-innovation-succeed/