Creative People Must Be Stopped (32 page)

The Innovator's Dilemma
(Christensen)

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Intel

Intellection (thinking): constraints to; as core creativity component; description and importance of; stay mindful of your favored ways of; summary of

Intellection (thinking) constraints: being seduced by your problem-solving strategies; Individual Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; overcoming; prematurely narrowing range of possible solutions; problem framing errors

International Development Enterprises

Intuit Software Company

iPhone

Irrigation pump design

Islamic Fiqh Academy

iTunes music service

iTunes Store

J

Jack Daniels distillery

Japanese tsunami (2011)

Jazz recording industry

Jobs, Steve

Jones, Tricia S.

JPEG standard

K

Kamen, Dean

Keep the Change program (Bank of America)

Keynote

Kleiner-Perkins

Knapp, Mark L.

Knowing: conscious competence: knowing what you know; conscious incompetence: knowing what you don't know; unconscious competence: not knowing what you know; unconscious incompetence: not knowing what you don't know

Kodak Apparatus Division Research Laboratory

Kodak Eastman story

Krantz, Gene

Kudzu vine

L

Landley, Robert

Laws and regulations: don't let rules distract you; explicit controls of; human cloning bans; monitoring impending; on Segway Personal Transporter; showing society a better way to change; thalidomide “wonder drug” and; Virgin Galactic's lobbying effort

Leadership.
See
Innovation strategic leadership

Leading innovation process

LEAF electric car (Nissan)

Learning: leaving time for; time required for learning

Learning gap: minding the; time-based tools to monitor

Learning model: conscious competence; conscious incompetence; unconscious competence; unconscious incompetence

Lockheed A-12 plane story

Long feedback loops

Lotus

M

Macintosh Bootcamp program

Macintosh computer

McKinsey Quarterly

MAD
magazine

Managing innovation process

The Manhattan Project

Mannix, Elizabeth A.

March, James

Marinaccio, Wendy

Market constraints: demands for higher performance at lower price; Industry Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; it's
always
the economy; legacy systems and adoption costs; maturity of market; overcoming; summary on

Markets: constraints related to; description of; social media role in; watch the market, not the competition

Maslow, Abraham

Master list of ideas

Mavica Electronic Still Video Camera

Maxim

Meaning: defining sense of group; enforcing a shared sense of

Medal of Honor (video game)

Memorex

Mendonca, Lenny T.

Method cards (IDEO)

MG Taylor Corporation

Microsoft

Microsoft Excel

Mimicking strategies

Mission Control Apollo 13 story

Mistake avoidance

Moral controls

Morita, Akio

Motorcycle repairs

Motorola

MP3 music files

Multiple problem-solving approaches

Murphy, Mary A.

Music industry: constraints facing jazz recording; music sharing problem facing the; Napster and the; transition from phonographs to CD and MP3 recordings

Myanmar irrigation pump design

N

Nadis, Steve

“Naive realists”

Napster

NASA

NASA's Apollo 13 crisis story

NASA's human exploration destination systems

National Court Reporters Association

Natural environment constraints: availability of necessary inputs; description of; outlets for necessary outputs; strategies for dealing with; suitable site for transformation; summary of; Technological Constraints Diagnostic Survey on

Natural environment strategies: getting an environmental fit for your innovation; getting smart about your supply chain; mimic something that works; use what's available

Neale, Margaret A.

Netflix

Newcomb, Theodore M.

Newell Rubbermaid

Nightline
“The Deep Dive” segment (TV show)

Nissan LEAF electric car

Noritsu Company

Northrop Grumman

O

Olson, Ken

O'Reilly
interview with James Turner

Organization strategies: doesn't reflect an ever-changing reality; innovative ideas don't fit the; knowing the intent of; risk aversion first and innovation second.
See also
The innovative organization strategy

Organizational constraints: chapter reflection on; diagnosing failures related to; innovation proposal that considers; Organizational Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; resource; strategy; structural; summary on; Venn diagram illustrating; Xerox PARC scenario on

Organizational Constraints Diagnostic Survey: taking the; using the results

Organizations: downside of size; enriching working environment; examining of why and how innovation is killed by; the innovative; know the value chain of your; mixed messages sent out about innovation by; price of efficiency for

“Other people's money” dynamics

Out of Poverty
(Polack)

Outsourcing: don't outsource the core; innovation

Overcoming competition constraints: become partners to learn, not to kill innovation; develop new tests for new ideas; don't overinvest in efficiency; find new ways to compete; importance of

Overcoming culture constraints: explore to learn, exploit to produce; importance of; mix up group membership; prize new problem-solving methods over traditions and taboos

Overcoming emotion constraints: celebrate failures; have a good fight; support psychological safety; suppress idea egotism

Overcoming environment constraints: automate documentation; facilitate multiple modes of expression; reconfiguring group's working space

Overcoming expression constraints: drawing and other visual techniques; importance of; selling your ideas; stay mindful of your favored ways of talking; sweat the presentation

Overcoming history constraints: importance of; leverage the existing infrastructure; use knowledge in the World; use open standards unless you can't

Overcoming intellection constraints: exploring instead of searching; reformulate the problem; set an ideation goal; use multiple problem-solving approaches

Overcoming market constraints: grab 'em and keep 'em; redefine performance; tell them what's new; watch the market, not the competition

Overcoming natural environment constraints.
See
Natural environment strategies

Overcoming perception constraints: broaden your sources of data; change your perspective; enrich the input; importance of; use practiced empathy

Overcoming physical constraints: bringing in an expert; determine how hard the problem might be; importance of; invest in what you need; let other people do the hard part

Overcoming process constraints: following phases of innovation for; importance of; summary of

Overcoming resource constraints: feed and starve innovation; ignore the ROI; importance of; know the value chain; providing “fail forward” work

Overcoming social control constraints: don't let the rules distract you; importance of; monitor impending rules and regulations; show society a better way

Overcoming strategy constraints: importance of; know the strategy; tell the story; trust the doers; understand (and communicate) the risks

Overcoming structural constraints: cultivate dissent; fluid structures; importance of; innovate outside the lab; mix it up; stay aligned

Overcoming supplier constraints: acknowledge the threat of your innovation; don't outsource the core; importance of; share the wealth; understand the true costs of capital

Overcoming time constraints: first things first; importance of; leave time to learn; mind the learning gap; watch the clock

Overcoming values and identity constraints: do good change and let people know; importance of; let values by your guide; look for clubs that wouldn't have you have a member

Owens, David A.

P

Pang, Alex Soojung-Kim

Paper-folding problem

PARC (Xerox) scenario

Parker, Sean

Pattern finding

PC Gamer
(magazine)

PDA (personal digital assistant) device

Pearce, Mick

People resources

Perception: constraints to; as core creativity component

Perception constraints: Individual Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; limiting the universe of “relevant” data; as looking without seeing; not getting close to the data; overcoming; selective perception and stereotyping; summary of

Performance: demands for lower price and higher; redefining

Phillips, Damon

Physical constraints: conscious competence; conscious incompetence; knowing what you know and what you don't; overcoming; summary of; Technological Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; unconscious competence; unconscious incompetence

Pike, Gary R.

“Pizza and Red Bull” phase

Polack, Paul

Polaroid

Porter Walker

Portfolio maps: description of; Map 1: Returns Profile; Map 2: Risk Profile

Portfolios building

Post-it story

PowerPoint

“PowerPoint Is Evil” (Tufte)

Powers, Francis Gary

Practiced empathy

Presentation: constraints to expression during your; expression element of your; overcoming expression constraints to your

Prius hybrid car (Toyota)

Problem solving: being seduced by your strategies for; errors in framing the problem; explore to learn new ways of; IDEO's “method cards” for; learning to prize new; music industry's poor approach to; prematurely narrowing possible solutions; set an ideation goal for; use multiple approaches to.
See also
Solutions; Technological constraints

Problems: determining the difficulty of the; errors when framing the; identifying; music industry and music sharing; paper-folding; reformulating

Process: conflict over; constraints to; description of; overcoming constraints to; seven phases of innovation

Process constraints: Group Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; importance of understanding; overcoming; summary of

Products: developing new test for new; legacy systems and adoption costs; redefining performance of; using social media to market; telling customers what's new

Professional Organizations

Profit

Psychological safety

Q

QSS-II photo processing

Quicken.com

QWERTY keyboard

R

Raelian Movement

Rainforest Alliance

Rapid Viz
(Hanks and Belliston)

Redefining performance

Refine phase of innovation

Reformulating problems

Regulations.
See
Laws and regulations

Relationship conflict

Resource constraints: capital and capabilities; complex and well-defined value chains; getting capital where and when it is needed; having the right people for the job; Organizational Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; overcoming; summary on

Robertson, John

Rogers Commission

ROI (return on investment) issue

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

S

San Francisco sourdough bread

Sasson, Steve

Scenarios.
See
Innovation scenarios

Schwartz, Stephen I.

Security issues

Segway Inc. story

Selective perception

“Sense making”

Sequencing and coordinating issues

Set Direction phase of innovation

SETI project

Seven phases of innovation: overcoming process constraints by implementing; overview of

Shaw, Mildred L. G.

Sholes, Christopher

Sholes-Gidden Type Writer

Shop Class as Soulcraft
(Crawford)

ShowArts story

“Showstopper” innovation constraints: identifying the; Sow-N-Gro example of

Silicon Valley

Sillars, Alan L.

Silver, Spence

Six-Sigma approach

Skateboarding
(magazine)

Slabbing (fashion innovation)

SmartWood

Sneader, Kevin D.

Social control constraints: explicit controls: laws and regulations; overcoming; Rousseau on; self-protection and regulating behavior; Societal Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; summary on; tacit controls: morals, ethics, and traditions

Social status: criticism as threat to; as emotion constraint

Societal constraints: chapter reflection on; diagnosing failures related to; enlarging so that it overlaps the other constraints; history; innovation proposal that considers; Keep the Change program overcoming of; Segway Inc. story on; Sow-N-Gro product; social control; Societal Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; summary on; three main areas of; values and identity; Venn diagram illustrating

Societal Constraints Diagnostic Survey: taking the; using the results

Society: choosing to change; human cloning rejection by; laws and regulations governing; rejection of human cloning by; the Segway Personal Transporter rejected by; tacit controls of moral, ethics, and traditions; values and ideals of

Solutions: exploring for; prematurely narrowing possible.
See also
Ideas; Problem solving

Sony Corporation

“Sony's New Electronic Wizardry” (1981)

Sow-N-Gro product failure

Spy planes.
See
Lockheed A-12 plane story

Standards: history constraints and associated; JPEG; persistence of historical; whenever possible use open

Starbucks

Stein, Rob

Stereotyping