Tailoring Design Methods to Incremental and Breakthrough Innovations

By Guest Author Soren Petersen It is increasingly hard to find something genuinely novel that one actually needs or even wants. Most new products are just slight facelifts of last year’s version that we can all easily live without.

Design Philosophy is Critical in Driving Breakthrough Innovation

By Guest Author Soren Petersen It is now abundantly clear that incremental innovation only keep the Sharks away long enough to come up for air and that it takes breakthrough innovation to swim out into the Blue Ocean, where opportunities are plentiful. Changing market and technology positions usually requires a renewal of the organization and

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Design Philosophy — Rules of Thumb

By Guest Author Soren Petersen More than any other car designer, Chris Bangle understands how to create breakthrough innovation. Often controversial, he has been the ‘lead dog on the sled team,’ exposed to the cold arctic wind of public opinion. At the end of the day, the most sincere form of flattery has been the

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How to Use Decision-Patterns in Startups

By Guest Author Soren Petersen The holy grail of building unicorn startups is to look in the right places and to reject the first thousand bad business ideas. The looking part is easy since one needs only to search areas of high market and high technology risk. However, what is the best path to making

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Growing Your Mind from the Inside Out

Excerpt from the book Unleash Your Inner Company by Guest Author John Chisholm In my mid-thirties, I accepted the fact that I’m gay. Many folks don’t see that as an asset. I disagree. It has been an asset for me in at least five ways: People routinely assume that others are attracted to the opposite

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Passion and Perseverance: A Positive Feedback Loop

Excerpt from the book Unleash Your Inner Company by Guest Author John Chisholm In the first half of 2001, the dot-com bust, I would often wake up around 2 a.m. with sweat-soaked sheets sticking to my skin. CustomerSat’s second round of financing, long planned for that January, had refused to come together despite a flurry

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John Chisholm

 John Chisholm, CEO of John Chisholm Ventures, has three decades of experience as entrepreneur, CEO, and investor.

INDEX: Award — Show Me the Money

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Announcement of the INDEX: Award is much more than a loud rally for promoting high-impact and beautifully formed design solutions. The Index Award is backed by the largest monetary design award and guides the most promising finalists from design solution to business opportunity, with $460,000.00 currently distributed among five winners,

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