During a recent meeting I attended with educators and government officials, I shared my frustration with the “output” of the current educational system.   In my opinion, the system is optimized to produce graduates with deep technical skills and the ability to take tests.  One competency that I see missing is the ability to apply creative problem solving skills [...]

The long anticipated release of Chuck House's book on HP (HP Phenomenon - Innovation and Business Transformation) has finally arrived and Chuck was so kind as to send me a copy. At 638 pages, it is the most complete look at the story behind what became HP. Chuck doesn't just tell what worked, but also describes in details what didn't work and how challenges were solved.

This weeks podcast is an interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, that occurred during the recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.

We are a race of innovators - born to use our imagination to create not only solutions to our most pressing problems (polio vaccine) but to also create the fun in our lives (pet rocks). We only have to look as far as our kids so rediscover that fundamental draw to use our imagination to create something out of nothing. Children are naturally superb innovators.

Below are the slides I used during my keynote this morning at the Open Innovation Summit in Orlando.  The topic was “How to Win In The Creative Economy” and touched on:

The transtion we are experiencing from the knowledge economy to the creative economy
The challenges of innovation (corporate anti-bodies, educational systems, etc)
The way to unlock your [...]

A few weeks back, I was in London for press interviews and customer meetings. The press interviews were with The Daily Telegraph, The Inquirer, Computing, Reuters and a podcast with The Guardian.

We’ve finally got around to creating a new, combined site where all of the content from the multiple sites (philmckinney.com, killerinnovations.com, etc) is now brought together.  While cleaning up the content, we also went ahead and moved to new servers, moved to new blogging software (from MT to WP), improved commenting support and added support [...]

An interview with Chuck House. Chuck is one of those individuals whose impact we’ve all felt but didn’t immediately realize. With the recent anniversary of Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon, Chuck turned out to be timely in this interview. Why? He’s the inventor of the early display technology that resulted in Chuck ultimately creating the moon monitor.

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