5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney
A podcast for the creative mind with a short attention span. Each episode will challenge you to create ideas by asking unique, funny & sometimes crazy questions.
With this short-format show of 5 minutes, you can spend more time innovating and less time listening.
The show's host, Phil McKinney, is an award-winning innovator whose technologies and products are used by 100's of millions of people every day. He is the host of the award-winning podcast, Killer Innovations, and author of the award-winning book, Beyond The Obvious. Phil retired as the CTO of HP at the end of 2011.
This show is produced and distributed by The Innovators Network.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 47
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2020
Can I recombine existing components to create new products for customers I don’t currently serve?
Magazine publishers are in the same predicament as the book-publishing and recording industries before it.
How do you keep your customers believing that your content is worth paying for when there is…
Can I create an on-demand version of the product?
Do you need to have a finished product in order to make a sale?
Is there any way that not offering a finished product would actually give you an advantage, or even become a selling point?
My children…
What will future customers’ buying criteria be
A big part of any business is being aware of, and responding to, the life cycles of the industry and its customers.
Some of these are easy to see; you only need a cursory understanding of the effect …
Who will not buy my product because they feel something is objectionable about it
Have you ever purchased a product that others hated?
Or what about the opposite .. .have you ever seen others using a product or service that you absolutely despised?
The flipside to any positive emo…
What Industries Are Analogous To Ours
No matter what business we are in, we are all fighting essentially the same fight—designing a product that a customer will prefer over that of our competitor. To do this, we need to constantly be awa…
How Can I Take Advantage Of Emerging Trends And Fads
“Weak signals” are the equivalent of a canary in a coal mine. They are the unspoken needs and wants of your customers, and they are also the arrows pointing to what your customers are going to need a…
What Customer Segments Will Emerge In 5 Years
With any radical idea you will see the corporate antibodies come out of the woodwork, giving all the standard reasons why the idea will “never happen.” Remember, the fundamental assumption of the cor…