Staged Gate accepts failure instead of ensuring success
Innovation projects have many risks. Some of these risks are controlled with project management techniques. Other risks are assumed unavoidable. Staged Gate attempts to limit the impact of the risks by setting up regular intervals to fail and start over. That is a fancy way of saying trial and error. Predictive Innovation® can prevent the failures, thus saving time and money.
Projects like constructing a building have well known steps. Budgets and schedules can be accurately estimated because the tasks have been performed before. Innovation projects always deal with some aspect that has never been done before. That newness introduces two types of risk, first is what to do and second is how to do it. This breaks down into 6 mandatory sequential outcomes. All 6 must be completed successfully for the innovation project to succeed.
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Hoy es mi cumpleaños
Last year I spent my birthday in Panama with several people who became very special friends during my visit. They gave me a wonderful party. In English we say “I am this many years old” but in Spanish they say, “I have this many years”. Instead of the years slipping away, you are collecting them. I found that different perspective to be refreshing. I have so much. Gracias a Dios.
Music Innovation Prediction arrives, iPhone App coming
In 2006 I published future music innovations. The ability to change the rhythm of music was a predicted innovation. At the Music Hack A Day event Echo Nest presented a new Open Source tool kit allows you to modify music in a wide variety of ways. Expect to see apps for smart phones soon.
Wonder what Rick James, Super Freak sounds like in swing style? Listen for yourself.
Super Freak by Rick James (Swing version with Echo Nest Remix) by tfine
The original version
Update
Swing version of Super Freak was deleted. Listen to “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane instead.
The original version
Predictive Innovation Training
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