Innovation illustrated
Visualizing innovation, and thinking about AI.
Hi all,
Just a short note today, to let you know that I shared the entire Innovation Illustrated series online today. This is an ongoing series of visual explanations focused on corporate innovation ecosystems.
So far there are four posters in the series (see above).
We started by visualizing the corporate innovation ecosystem, which includes the corporate core, innovation initiatives, startups and customers.
Next was an innovation maturity model, showing five levels of innovation maturity, from just getting started to fully integrated innovation.
In the third poster we focused on the difficult challenge of measuring innovation.
The fourth and most recent poster shows seven common approaches that large companies can use to plug into startups and startup ecosystems.
You can see web-friendly versions, free downloadable PDF files, and links to buy museum-quality poster prints here.
We are just now starting to work on the fifth in the series, which will focus on the strategic landscape of AI and innovation. I’m really looking forward to this one because I am very curious about AI, and like a lot of you have been experimenting myself with ChatGPT, Google Bard, DALL-E and Midjourney.
Since we are on the subject of AI, I should also let you know that I set up a Facebook group, a kind of learning cohort where we work in weekly AI visualization challenges, compare notes, and share our prompts with each other. For this week’s challenge we are thinking about how to use AI to help us think creatively by generating things like thumbnail sketches and mood boards. I set the group up last year and we now have over 3,000 members. The group is called Prompt Whispering, and if you’re on Facebook you can join us here.
I’m excited to work on this next poster. I believe AI is a truly disruptive technology which will change our lives forever. Of course there is a dark side to this, and I hope we will address this in the poster. AI has a ton of momentum right now and it feels like an unstoppable force, for better or worse, so it makes a lot of sense to spend time and energy thinking through the potential, including impact on careers, business and life, opportunities and threats.
We are still working on the key questions we need to answer, so if you have any thoughts, consider leaving a comment with your questions and ideas.
Until next time,
