Author: Katherine Radeka
Welcome to High Velocity Innovation!
You can get your best ideas to market faster
I know you can because I’ve seen it happen over and over again, as innovation leaders and teams move away from using “silver bullets” that don’t work, following experts that have never shipped their own product, or listening to advice…
Rapid Learning Cycles Throughout the Enterprise
Rapid Learning for Any High Uncertainty / High Cost of Change Program
We’ve been holding elections in the United States since before we were an independent nation. While claims of voter and election fraud have also been a part of American history from the beginning, the switch to electronic voting machines seems…
Three Types of Knowledge Gaps to Close
Learning Activities to Establish Facts,
Develop Alternatives and Find Limits
When I decided that The Shortest Distance was ready for an update, two key design goals were to improve the quality of printing for our softcover books. It always makes me smile when someone brings in a copy of my…
How to Plan for Uncertainty and Discovery:
What to do When Agile Is Not Enough
I live in a home built in 1910 with original basement walls that were poured using a form of concrete that is known to have a lifespan of about 120 years before crumbling into dust. The whole weight of the…
“The Best Obtainable Version of the Truth”:
How to close a Knowledge Gap that has a fuzzy answer.
At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2017, journalist Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame described the philosophy that guided his reporting during the crisis that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974: “We tried to get the…
Use This Structure
to Grow Your Ideas Into Solutions:
What established companies can do to maintain reputation
while exploring new products.
When the Wright Brothers set out to build an airplane, they knew that if their design had any flaws, their test pilot may not survive to make a second attempt. It had to be right the first time. Not every…
Three Ways Rapid Learning Cycles Increase Collaboration to Build Confidence:
How to avoid making mistakes that require rebuilding trust.
My partner, Gene has learned that he can’t rely upon our hotels to provide a good set-up for ironing, even in hotels that claim to provide one. Sometimes the hotel only has a few irons, and so he has had…
Five Reasons Why Your Team Needs a Kickoff Event
Sometimes when I travel, I carry a penny whistle with me, because it’s lightweight and cheap. I don’t have to worry about the airlines or thieves. They were developed by Robert Clarke in the 1840s, who figured out how to…
How to Increase Your Chances of Success in Product Development:
Why the RLC framework provides teams the right balance of structure and accountability.
Gene and I spent a weekend at a small condo in Aix-les-Bains, a small town on an Alpine lake in France. This town has a stunning casino that dates from the Belle Epoque era, with mosaic ceilings that rival some…