The Thinking.school Podcast

Innovation in organisations has a reputation of being a big, complicated thing. Today, we look at innovation with a little 'i'. The idea that innovation can be something you 'just do' every day is possible - and easy. Listen to the podcast to find out more...

When you have a great idea or you're trying to understand someone else's great idea - how do you get clear? How do you get the same understand of something complex together? Draw a map!

This episode we take a quick look at systems thinking - the idea that there are ways we can communicate and understand complex interconnected systems. Something to inspire how you look at the world! 

This episode we're hacking Bloom's Taxonomy to better understand collaboration. Bloom's Taxonomy is a model to classify educational learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity. 

This episode we're talking about bringing the strategy of Juijitsu into one of the biggest challenges with innovation: opinions. Have a listen and learn how to move from fighting opinions or being swayed by them - to being data driven.

This episode I have the pleasure of interviewing Jane Barratt, founder and CEO of GoldBean - a supremely innovative investment solution. Driven by the frustration with the disconnect between personal consumption and personal finance Jane and her team have built something amazing: a more empowered, personal and data-driven approach to investing.

One of the most powerful tools we have as humans is our 'mirror neurons', our ability to sense how others are feeling. In this episode we're talking about how to leverage this ability into a refined skill that you can use to more effectively communicate, solve problems and design solutions. Listen to the podcast to find out more about analytical empathy...  

It's a new year and a lot of people are starting new roles and need to learn new things. In this episode, I'm sharing a secret for getting rapid progress in anything that's new. The secret is in 'finding the skeleton' and using it to solve lots of small easy problems instead of being intimidated by one big hard problem. Watch the video (or listen to the podcast) to find out more about skeletons.

We have made our New Year's resolutions right? This week we're looking at what it takes to see it through.

Thank you for an amazing year, and I'm wishing you a Happy New Year for 2017! *Gratitude*

In this episode of the Innovation Podcast, at the time when we reflect on what we want to do for the year ahead, I thought it would be a great time to look at a way of introducing a sense of 'innovation' into even the most process-driven company. "Getting started with innovation"

I have been on the road this month speaking with so many wonderful people about innovation leadership and thinking tools - it has been nothing short of amazing. Today I am sharing a small excerpt from the half-day Innovation Program we ran at the 3M campus in Ryde.   One more post until Christmas!   Enjoy the week...     

I have been on the road this month speaking with so many wonderful people about innovation leadership - it has been nothing short of amazing. Today I am sharing a small excerpt from the two day Innovation Leadership Program we ran as a corporate offsite event in beautiful Kingscliff as a Podcast from the live event.   Its a change of pace from the usual video content and gives you a taster of what Innovation Leadership is all about...   Enjoy!

See the full post at https://thinking.school/blog/triz-in-5-minutes

See the full post at https://thinking.school/blog/busting-the-creative-problem-solving-buzz-in-5-minutes  

See the full post at https://thinking.school/blog/busting-the-design-thinking-buzz-in-5-minutes

See the full post at https://thinking.school/blog/busting-the-agile-buzzword-in-5-minutes

This is the final episode of the six part series looking at the attributes of leading innovation in large organisations. The  'cone of uncertainty' is a statistical model for estimation of software projects. Turns out, that model is great for communicating the uncertainty associated with corporate innovation projects.

This is the fifth episode of the six episode series looking at the attributes of leading innovation in large organisations. Another concept comes from the  Lean Startup from Eric Ries: Pivots. We look at this concept combined with the 'circles versus lines' metaphor to understand how pivots affect our strategic intent.

This is the fourth episode of the six episode series looking at the attributes of leading innovation in large organisations. We look at the key features of innovation: it's cyclic nature and the stages of formal innovation management processes that have emerged to deal with the core challenge of all innovation - closing the gap.