$ 9.99
FastCompany Magazine calls the 7 Laws of Innovation - "..a guide to the ins-and-outs of innovation—how innovation works and how it thrives."
Over the years of being in the innovation space, I've discovered a set of laws by trial and error. Needless to say, I have the scars from the school of hard knocks to validate that these are the set of laws that are critical for innovation success. If you violate any one of them, the consequences can be disastrous. These laws apply to all sizes of organizations ranging from well-established multi-nationals, to early stage start-ups to governments.
This poster can become an innovation tool to help your team understand and grasp what it really takes to embrace a culture of innovation and transform the organization.
The original blog post was picked up by FastCompany, BusinessWeek and other leading publications. The result was the translation of the original manifesto into the poster.
Poster Size: 18" by 24"
Shipped in a tube and ready for framing.
Note: All profits for this product are donated to Hacking Autism (HackingAutism.org).
$ 9.99
FastCompany Magazine calls the 7 Laws of Innovation - "..a guide to the ins-and-outs of innovation—how innovation works and how it thrives."
Over the years of being in the innovation space, I've discovered a set of laws by trial and error. Needless to say, I have the scars from the school of hard knocks to validate that these are the set of laws that are critical for innovation success. If you violate any one of them, the consequences can be disastrous. These laws apply to all sizes of organizations ranging from well-established multi-nationals, to early stage start-ups to governments.
This poster can become an innovation tool to help your team understand and grasp what it really takes to embrace a culture of innovation and transform the organization.
The original blog post was picked up by FastCompany, BusinessWeek and other leading publications. The result was the translation of the original manifesto into the poster.
Poster Size: 18" by 24"
Shipped in a tube and ready for framing.
Note: All profits for this product are donated to Hacking Autism (HackingAutism.org).
$ 27.99
In his award winning book, Beyond the Obvious, McKinney dispels the myth that you have to be born with the gift of creativity and innovation. Everyone is creative and this book shows you how. Full of real-world examples, the book presents his rule-breaking approach to harness the power of innovation. In this book, you will ..
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"Phil McKinney is an innovation expert, and his killer questions and hit-the-spot anecdotes provide a great way to get a out in front of opportunities " Geoffrey Moore, Author of Crossing The Chasm
"An empowering new voice for business readers, Phil McKinney will change your Monday with his rule-breaking approach to harnessing the power of innovation" Peter Guber, author of the #1 New York Time bestseller Tell to Win
"Phil’s questions are a prerequisite to building innovative products." Satjiv Chahil, Former Global Marketing Chief, Apple
"Phil McKinney arms readers with the skills to ask razor-sharp questions that lead to better ideas and more effective innovations.", Wendell Weeks, Chairman and CEO, Corning
$ 4.99
A two-hour audio course that teaches you how to use your creativity to create better ideas that lead to game-changing breakthrough innovations.
In this course, you'll learn:
This course has been used by organizations ranging from Fortune 25 global enterprises to start-up's and including government agencies.
On sale $ 35,000.00 $ 30,000.00
The Innovators Network, LLC
Disruptive Ideation Workshop (Onsite for 20 Students)
$ 35,000.00 $ 30,000.00
The Disruptive Ideation Workshop guides your team through a proven framework used by 1,000's of organizations that creates more and better ideas. In the end, you walk away with a ranked list of disruptive ideas -- and a team experienced in how to repeat the process.
Note: Fee includes travel for US and Canada workshops. Other locations will be charged for travel.
Location: At your facility
Length: 1.5 days
Maximum Students: 20 max
Description: The course is based on the FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Ranking, Execution) framework developed by Phil McKinney, the retired CTO for HP and founder of HP's Innovation Program Office (IPO). Phil and his teams were named by FastCompany, Inc and other publications as the "Most Innovative/Creative" multiple years. The innovations from Phil and his teams are used 100's of million people every day.
To learn more, visit DisruptiveIdeation.com
The Innovators Network, LLC has licensed Phil's courses, workshops and training materials to create this workshop.
$ 50,000.00
Innovation Guide - Advising, Guiding and Coaching.
Our Innovation Guide Program is an advisory toolbox developed with the real needs of innovators in mind. This is what we would have wanted in our early days of driving innovation.
The program gives you a unique approach of hands on coaching and advising to build your innovation confidence more effectively and is unlike costly and lengthy consultancy engagements.
The program adjusts to where you are in your innovation lifecycle and is offered as a unique subscription model with a minimum of 3 months.
Monthly - Driving Innovation Session (with Award Winning Innovator Phil McKinney and Team)
Weekly - Innovation Huddle Up Call (with our Expert Innovation Team)
On Call Communication (with our Expert Practitioners and in touch with Phil McKinney our Chair, global innovator and host of the Killer Innovations Show)
NOTE: This offering is a 3 month price (our minimum time period, typical engagements are 6 months to a year) for organizations and innovation leaders. Coaching can be done with a team, individual leaders or a combination. Contact us for pricing on longer term coaching engagements. For personal coaching, not affiliated with an organization, reach out to us for more details.
$ 75,000.00
The Innovation Program Office (IPO) is a structure that when instituted effectively manages the innovation lifecycle from ideation to productization. Our team works with your organization to establish, structure and customize the IPO.
Length: 1 Month Engagement
Location: At your facility and virtual
Note: Fee includes travel for US and Canada. Other locations will have additional travel fee.
Description: The “Innovation Program Office” (IPO) is an effective tool that applies to any organization looking to integrate innovation as a discriminator… a foundational element for success. See our recent show on the IPO.
The role takes on many forms but the primary focus for the “IPO” is establishing the innovation framework, governance, metrics, idea generation, funnel management, securing the funding, project selection and tracking, and training and supporting the teams as they innovate.
Why is an Innovation Program Office (IPO) so vital. 1) It supports corporate/organization wide strategy setting & priorities. 2) Ensures you have a well-managed & functioning innovation lifecycle engine 3) Keeps enterprise plans living and focused 4) Promotes premium growth 5) Enables rapid alignment to take advantage of market forces
An IPO continually feeds ideas into planning, discovers adjustments that are needed to keep the execution of a plan relevant to market forces. Using the IPO’s talent, idea sourcing capability/idea pipeline your enterprise strategy & tactics will always be challenged to exceed capacity and go beyond for success.
To learn more about the Innovation Program Office written about in the Harvard Business Review and a Stanford case study, contact us at info@TheInnovators.Network.
On sale $ 21.95 $ 19.95
Update: The card deck is now available through Amazon Prime!
Available for purchase is Volume 1 of the Killer Questions Card Deck, a fun, hands-on and portable solution to spark innovation.
The Killer Questions Card Deck will help entrepreneurs, startups, and/or well-established organizations identify who their customer is, the product or service that should be sold, and how their organization operates. The deck contains a series of questions intended to spark fresh ideas and encourage the user to look at all sides of a scenario.
The Killer Questions Card Deck was created by Phil McKinney, author of Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing Innovation, and the host of the nationally syndicated radio show and podcast Killer Innovations.
The Killer Questions Card Deck is effective, portable, and durable; making it is an essential tool for individuals and teams, in the office and on-the-go.
Top uses for the Killer Questions Card Deck include:
Details and Measurements:
The Killer Questions Card Deck is designed to stand up to regular use. It is printed on the same laminated card stock used for professional playing cards.
Size/weight: 4"x3" and weighs 4.5 oz.
"Many assumptions about our business turns out to be wrong. .. Phil McKinney arms readers with the skills to ask razor-sharp questions that lead to better ideas and more effective innovation."
Wendell P. Weeks, chairman and CEO, Corning
"Phil McKinney will change your Monday with his rule-breaking approach to harnessing the power of innovation."
Peter Guber, NYT Best Selling Author and co-owner of the Golden State Warriors
"Product innovation is a prerequisite to building great brands. Phil's questions are the prerequisite to building innovative products."
Satjiv S. Chahil, former Global Marketing Chief, Apple
I started writing the Killer Questions when I was in my short-lived “retirement” early in 2001. As I relaxed in the Virginian countryside, my mind started to flash back to various experiences I’d had during my working life. Over the course of the preceding twenty years, I’d been a part of dozens of highly innovative products and ideas that came to market. I started to ask myself a broad range of investigative questions about how and why successful products work. The most important issue seemed to be that of understanding the thought process that led to these discoveries.
If I could reverse the thought process that led to innovative products and find the questions that might have generated these ideas, would those same questions lead to new discoveries and new products in the future? With these questions in mind, I wrote down this first question—
As the months passed, these cards started to multiply, so I decided to put together a card deck that I kept in a big binder clip. Before each innovation workshop, I’d flip quickly through the set and pull out a few questions to ask the participants. I constantly tested the questions in workshops to see which questions would generate the best ideas. I kept the ones that worked and tossed the ones that didn’t. Sometimes I realized that a question had the potential to spark a good idea, but I had worded it poorly, so I experimented with the question by adjusting the language.
After a year or so the walls in my home office were filled with Killer Questions. They were scrawled on index cards and stuffed in shoeboxes or pinned up on the wall. The sheer volume was driving my wife crazy. That’s when I realized I needed to formalize the system, strip it down to the most effective questions, and develop a way to organize and use them. You’ll learn more as we go through the book, but for now know that the Questions are divided into three categories:
Each category has roughly twenty questions to date, and more are constantly being tested and added to the.
The card deck being offered here is Volume 1 of the Killer Questions. More volumes will be released in the future.
So, is the list static? No. The key to the value of the Killer Questions is that new ones are continuously being discovered. Sometimes I get questions sent to me by the listeners to my podcast. Other times I come up with new ones in support of an upcoming workshop, or they come to me when I’m reading a story in the Sunday paper.
The questions that I keep are ones that trigger something for someone. Did a new question cause a listener or reader to see something differently about their product, customer, or organization? Did it spark a broader examination of how they were doing something, and why?
One of my favorite killer questions is one of the simplest:
What do my potential customers not like about the buying experience?
This is a classic Killer Question; on first glance, it seems obvious, but once people start to think about it they realize they’ve never actually asked that of themselves or their business. In fact, the overwhelming majority of organizations do not measure or track what their potential customers dislike about their buying experience, instead choosing to focus on issues with the product or support. In reality, this question is almost impossible to measure. Think about it. How would you find a potential customer who had such a bad buying experience that they didn’t buy your product? Digging into what the potential customer actively dislikes about buying a product can be a gold mine, especially when your competitors aren’t making that investigation.
The point of a Killer Question is to challenge you to look at things in a new and different way.
A really good Killer Question will leave you surprised by the answer.
Since you've read this far in to the site, we will let you in on a little easter egg related to the cards ... on the front and back of each card in the deck are a unique layout of icons designed for each card to help spark more ideas.
$ 65,000.00
The Organization's Innovation Readiness Assessment (OIRA) takes a comprehensive look at your organization analyzing all elements, benchmarking, providing adjustments and recommendations to optimize for your innovation journey.
Length: 1 Month Engagement
Location: At your facility and virtual
Note: Fee includes travel for US and Canada. Other locations will have additional travel fee.
Description: The Organization’s Innovation Readiness Assessment takes you through a series of diagnostic questions, analysis and tests based on the 7 Immutable Laws of Innovation. It also considers elements of our FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Ranking, Execution) framework.
This framework and process determines areas of strength and where your organization needs to optimize. To get it right the assessment takes into consideration your unique organization, its business maturity stage and the innovation lifecycle you are in. This results in practical actions to be more effective.
After we synthesize all factors we then compare against others in the industry, similar organizations as well as organizations both larger and smaller across industries. By using your unique organization and a variety of data points from the ‘best in class’ to those experiencing growing pains in the trenches, you will gain a full suite of learnings that will enable you to be a leading innovation organization.
This framework and process coupled with our innovation pedigree, cross industry breadth, functional expertise and experiences from startup to global 1000 companies provides your organization the highest degree of confidence you can succeed in the innovation economy.
To learn more, contacts us at info@TheInnovators.Network.
On sale $ 625.00 $ 500.00
The Innovators Network, LLC
Virtual Brainstorming & Ideation Session (per student, minimum of 20 students)
$ 625.00 $ 500.00
Can't figure out how to brainstorm with your team while you are all virtual? In one session, see and experience a 100% virtual brainstorm/ideation session. You and your team will immediately be able to put the tools to use.
Virtual Brainstorming and Ideation is just as effective virtual as in person with the FIRE framework and intuitive tools. Our framework is used by 1,000's of organizations to create more and better ideas.
Take our 2.5 Hour Session -- learn how to have repeatable sessions and walk away with breakout ideas to keep the idea pipeline strong. Taught by Emmy Award Winning Innovators who’ve proven the virtual ideation techniques and online tools with major industries continually for many years.
Our virtual brainstorming and ideation session is interactive and will give you the framework and experience to always do remote sessions. Teams will focus ideating from a problem/challenge/opportunity statement generated by your organization (or by our teams) and walk away with a pipeline of ideas and a proven technique. To learn more on our virtual brainstorming see recent Killer Innovations podcasts at https://theinnovators.network/virtual-brainstorm/.
As we adopt to a new way of operating, what a perfect time to do a train teams on virtual brainstorming and ideation. No need to travel or have trainers on site with our Virtual Option. We train from our studio using Zoom Video Communications comprehensive capabilities. Zoom's Breakout Rooms effectively align w/ our ideation & ranking exercises and enables our interactive hands on approach. *Zoom Sponsors our Killer Innovations Show/Podcast
Note: Fee includes travel for US and Canada workshops. Other locations will be charged for travel.
Location: Virtual via Zoom/Zoom Room
Length: 2.5 Hours
Maximum Students: 20 max
Description: The course is based on the FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Ranking, Execution) framework developed by Phil McKinney, the retired CTO for HP and founder of HP's Innovation Program Office (IPO). Phil and his teams were named by FastCompany, Inc and other publications as the "Most Innovative/Creative" multiple years. The innovations from Phil and his teams are used 100's of million people every day.
To learn more, visit DisruptiveIdeation.com
The Innovators Network, LLC has licensed Phil's courses, workshops and training materials to create this workshop.
On sale $ 25,000.00 $ 20,000.00
The Innovators Network, LLC
Virtual Disruptive Ideation Workshop (Up to 20 Students)
$ 25,000.00 $ 20,000.00
The Disruptive Ideation Workshop guides your team through a proven framework used by 1,000's of organizations that creates more and better ideas. In the end, you walk away with a ranked list of disruptive ideas -- and a team experienced in how to repeat the process. This interactive/hands-on Innovation Workshop has been taught virtually with global customers for many years and proven effective in delivering immediate and profitable results.
Note: Fee includes travel for US and Canada workshops. Other locations will be charged for travel.
Location: Via our State of the Art Studio & Zoom (Zoom Rooms/collaborative tools)
Length: 1.5 days
Maximum Students: 20 max
Description: The course is based on the FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Ranking, Execution) framework developed by Phil McKinney, the retired CTO for HP and founder of HP's Innovation Program Office (IPO). Phil and his teams were named by FastCompany, Inc and other publications as the "Most Innovative/Creative" multiple years. The innovations from Phil and his teams are used 100's of million people every day.
To learn more, visit DisruptiveIdeation.com
See also a recent show on Virtual Brainstorming and leveraging the latest tools and platforms like Zoom https://theinnovators.network/virtual-brainstorming-innovating-ideas-for-new-zoom-features/ *Zoom Video Communications is a Sponsor of Killer Innovatons.
The Innovators Network, LLC has licensed Phil's courses, workshops and training materials to create this workshop.