Eureka! Ranch Blog
Is It Time To Try Something Weird?
One hobby I enjoy in my free time is brewing my own beer. The obvious benefit is a fridge consistently full of beer, but what really makes it fun is experimentation. When I first started home brewing I would get kits from the local brewery supply store and follow the recipe. The results were good beer, but nothing truly unique.
How Good Is Your Guru?
Who among us has not smiled at the “Netflix Event” story? The little upstart bringing a behemoth to its knees by defying the odds, reinventing the business model and disrupting an entire industry. As well as we know the story, these events are hard to see while in progress. These are easiest observed after the fact.
Disruption has been happening for a long time, consider…
Is Innovation a Skill to Be Learned?
If your best friend called you today and asked you to go scale El Capitan tomorrow morning, would you be able to do it?
For most of us, the answer would be an absolute no, as it would truly end in a cliff hanger.
Most of us are not experts at scaling mountains, and if you have interest in scaling mountains, you likely would start by taking some classes and starting on practice rock-climbing walls before slowly graduating to longer and steeper cliffs.
Cintas Shares 3 Lessons Learned on Innovating in a commodity Market
Whether you know the Cintas name or not, odds are you’ve used their products nearly every day in one capacity or another. Thanks to their uniforms and apparel products and facility services everything from mom and pop restaurants to massive factories have the things they need to run smoothly.
Innovation & Employee Engagement: Lessons from a Chief Innovator
I was recently interviewed by my friend, Justin Zawaly, COO of TalMetrix about innovation & employee engagement…as Justin states, “One of the outcomes of an engaged culture is innovation. Innovation doesn’t just happen, or at least it cannot be sustained, unless both the employer and employee are thriving. Innovation becomes part of organizations culture and must be measured and monitored like anything else to ensure the creative vision is being nurtured.”
Top 3 Things that Can Silently Ruin Your Innovation Program
We’re running our training program off-site this week and it brings to mind all the small things that seem insignificant but can have a drastic impact on the outcome of the week. Through trial and error we’ve come up with some solutions to handle these potential landmines even when we’re off-site. So here are the top three hidden killers for innovation programs and some potential solutions to them.
2 Significant Impacts from Innovation Checklists
It is no secret that when you have a “to do” list you get more done and the same goes for innovation. When you use a “to do” list or checklist we see the following: