Phil McKinney

The Best of Killer Innovations: Successful Failures

Continuing our best of Killer Innovations series, we explore the hidden benefits of successful failures.For innovation leaders, it is vital to learn how to turn failures into successes. Innovation is all about seeing opportunities others don't see…

The Best of Killer Innovations: Creative Qualities

We kick off a new series where we will be looking at the best of past Killer Innovation shows. This episode is about creative qualities.Creative people often have a sense of limitless creative freedom and experimentation. Creative genius is a natural…

Become That Visionary Leader by Embracing Risk

Are you ready to take your leadership skills to the next level? Visionary leaders possess unique characteristics that set them apart from other leaders. They have the confidence to make tough decisions and the creativity to develop innovative…

Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation

Breaking down barriers to innovation is vital for fostering creativity and advancing progress. Innovative thinking is needed to develop new ideas, products, and services that can help improve our world. As such, it is essential to understand why…

Unlocking Your Creative Potential

Creativity is a powerful tool, and many underestimate our creative potential.Creative potential is your ability to generate new ideas and connect seemingly unrelated concepts to create something unique or solve problems innovatively. It goes beyond…

The Power of Mindful Innovation

Mindful innovation is a way to approach problem-solving from a different perspective. Instead of just looking for quick ideas or relying on existing approaches, mindful innovation calls us to slow down and take the time to deeply understand the…

Proven Strategies To Scaling Innovations

In today’s world, innovation is a fundamental component of successful business strategies. It allows organizations to stay ahead of the competition, develop new products and services, and create value for customers. However, scaling up innovative…

Is Intuition Required for Innovation?

Introduction to Intuitive ThinkingIntuitive thinking sometimes referred to as ‘thinking on autopilot,’ is based on prior experience and mental shortcuts. It involves using heuristics and pattern recognition to make decisions quickly and efficiently.…

Tom D’Eri on Hiring and Managing a Nontraditional Workforce

Tom D’Eri, Co-Founder and COO of Rising Tide Car Wash, joins us to discuss the gap neurodivergent individuals face while entering the workforce and how to bridge that gap by changing hiring methods and implementing strategic operations that are…

Jim Kalbach of Mural on Visual Collaboration

Jim Kalbach, Head of Customer Experience at Mural, joins us to discuss innovation efforts in the world of visual collaboration.Remote work was at nearly one hundred percent during the pandemic, creating a need for effective digital whiteboards. Not…

Business Model Innovation – Why Agility Matters

There's no question that business model innovation is a hot topic in today's business world. After all, who wouldn't want to be the next Uber or Airbnb? But what does it take to create a new and successful business model?It turns out that business…

Sandra Howe on Innovation Timing and Collaboration

Sandra Howe, an award-winning technology expert, joins us to discuss the effectiveness of pairing good timing with collaboration.The need for innovators willing to work with each other rather than against is progressing. Thanks to the swiftly…

Most Downloaded Show of 2022 – Innovation Benchmarking

Benchmarking is the comparing of your organization to others to measure your performance and possibly identify areas for improvement. It has been common practice since the early 1900s. Frederick Taylor, an American mechanical engineer, is credited…

The Devil’s Advocate: Is it Good for Innovation?

Innovation is often lauded as the key to success in business. After all, staying ahead of the competition is hard if you’re not constantly coming up with new ideas and ways to improve your products or services. But is every idea you come up with a…

Collin Howlett of Vecima on the Pace and Sources of Innovation

Here is the last interview from my time at the Cable Tec-Expo Show in Philadelphia. Collin Howlett, the CTO of Vecima, joins us to discuss the acceleration of innovation in the cable industry.Predicting the future grows more challenging as the pace…

Irresponsible Innovation

A few weeks back, I wrote an opinion piece for The Innovators Network titled, Innovation Hero Worship: FTX, Theranos, and the Media. The core of the article is my belief that the media has a responsibility to not feed into the hero worship of…

Innovation Hero Worship: FTX, Theranos, and the Media

It is hard to miss the headlines where some innovator has raised significant money, been on the cover of major publications, lauded for their success by leading journalists, and celebrated as a genius. All to have it come crumbling down because…

Asaf Matatyaou of Harmonic on Innovation Culture and AI

This is the third interview from my time at the Cable Tec-Expo Show in Philadelphia. Asaf Matatyaou, the VP of Solutions and Product Management for the Cable Access Business at Harmonic, joins us to discuss AI, data, and innovation culture.Consumer…

Why Divergent Thinkers Will Always Win

Humans have always been thinkers. From the time early humans began to communicate, they used their brains to figure out how to survive and thrive. Over the years, humans have continued to use their brains to solve problems and create new things. To…

Jordi Fernandez of BeneTalk on Innovating Stuttering

Jordi Fernandez, Founder and CEO of BeneTalk, joins the show to discuss the mobile app that provides a community for people who stutter.Jordi is a person who stutters and growing up, his parents and teachers didn’t understand how to approach it. At a…