Tag: innovation

  • The Three Risk Traps Blocking Innovation

    The Three Risk Traps Blocking Innovation

    Many valuable innovative solutions get stranded due to the perceived risk of adopting them. Risk should be an important component in all decisions, but it might be counterproductive if it is not put into proper context and perceived adequately. There are especially three risk perception traps that block innovations. Understanding them might help to unlock…

  • Stuck in beta? 

    Stuck in beta? 

    Experimentation is good but also deceptively simple. Even though the experiments can be incredibly complex and the brightest minds are involved, from an organizational perspective it is simple: you just select a problem, and then you get a budget and then you solve it. But even though you can feel and taste the solution it…

  • Building innovation in the zone

    Building innovation in the zone

    Building a home to provide shelter is one of the most basic of human needs; still, it is one of the areas most in need of innovation. It is not for lack of trying or bright ideas.  Today we know how to 3D print houses, and integrate solar cells in windows, roofs, and walls, we…

  • Architecture – Turning Fiction into Fact

    I am an admirer of my compatriot Bjarke Ingels who is a real architect. His buildings always stretch the boundaries of the possible. For example, can you create an idyllic ski slope in a flat country like Denmark and put it in the center of a  city with more than a million inhabitants? Sure, just put it…

  • How to come up with a product that is truly unique

    How do you come up with a product idea that the whole world is not already selling? This is an interesting question that I think every entrepreneur asks him or herself regularly. I don’t have the answer for it, but I can tell you something about how to end up with the answer. Ban TechCrunch  The…

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