All tagged Innovation

Self-Made: A Conversation with Drew Henry

Self-Made: A Conversation with Drew Henry

Kaytlin Collins Blanco
Career & Professionalism, Inspiration & People

Many people have asked if it is possible to become an engineer without a degree. When we pose this question to Google, we get more than 30 million results in response to this question. Answers ranged from a solid no to multiple sites listing jobs in engineering that don’t require a degree. In reality, it depends on the field, the job, and often where you live. To learn more about this path to engineering, we decided to interview a successful business-owner and self-taught engineer to get his take on this topic.

The Third Face of Innovation: The Cross-Pollinator

The Third Face of Innovation: The Cross-Pollinator

John Salmon
Series & Short Course

There are clear benefits of knowing a little about a lot (i.e. breadth) and there are clear advantages of knowing a lot about a little (i.e. depth). Of course, it’s better to know a lot about a lot, but that’s unquestionably difficult to achieve. Cross-Pollinators are generally classified in the former category (breadth) although they often have at least one domain of expertise too. 

The Second Face of Innovation: The Experimenter

The Second Face of Innovation: The Experimenter

John Salmon

The second face of innovation as described by Tom Kelley is the Experimenter. It is no surprise that individuals identifying themselves as an Experimenter, will employ testing and prototyping more than any other of the ten faces of innovation. All of us have moments when we act as an Experimenter but some of us might be perennial Experimenters.

The Hype Cycle

The Hype Cycle

John Salmon

The Hype Cycle is a high-level model of the trajectory many technologies experience before full adoption by a group, an organization, or society. It hasn't been demonstrated to exist  scientifically but it can be useful as an abstract tool to discuss the perceived progress of technology.