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It's popular to say that it is easy to get ideas. And it is true: It is easy. But more often than not the people saying those exact words are the ones who at the end of the day manages the status quo because they are either empty of ideas, or because they are affraid… Continue reading Relevant ideas
The other day I sat down with one of our investments to discuss their potential future direction. It was an interesting and productive session with some key questions arising during the conversation. One of those discussions was around who the customer actually is? If you're developing a B2B solution, is your customer the company, you… Continue reading Customer #1
Great teams succeed together. A team full of individual stars lacking coordination and communication between the various positions fail no matter how good and expensive they individually are. If those things are true in sports, does it come as a surprise that it goes for corporate innovation as well? A great football manager knows that… Continue reading It takes a team to win
One of the keys to efficiency is to have a great box of tools fit for the task(s) at hand. For the same reason we're constantly working to put the best toolbox at InQvation Studio together. We already have some sharp tools in the box - Trello for overview, Mural for ideation, Lean Stack for… Continue reading What is a great tool?
During the years I have met many people who have been incredibly frustrated trying to make good use of Business Model Canvas. They often follow a traditional hype cycle, where they start up enthusiastically and full of energy and purpose only to burn out after a week or two with little progress. While it is… Continue reading Show it, don’t tell it
Countless times when people talk about doing an MVP, what they are really deep down looking to do is something that resembles the finished product. Or at the very least should be used as a quite feature heavy and robust stepping stone towards the finished product. It is a misconception though. MVPs in its original… Continue reading Remember the MVP?
Should the person who comes up with an idea also be the one who straight out of the blocks evaluate its desirability, feasibility and viability? Probably not due to the obvious risk of bias. It is also why we have some tools for ideation and another set of tools for assessment and validation. The really… Continue reading Don’t undersell your idea
Just because ideas can be hard to turn into something concrete, it doesn't mean you should stop having them. There always should be - and there always is - room for the bright idea. What you could do however is to stop thinking about the quantity of ideas you could have and focus all your… Continue reading Focus on outcomes