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🚀 Innovation
An exploration of the innovation process and how ideas turn into value.


The Biggest Challenge to Collaboration is Culture
🤷🏻♂️ The biggest challenge to collaboration is people, and the culture that prevails in an organization. I feel a bit lost, most of...
Faisal Alqethami
Mar 182 min read
A Letter of Good Faith
💌 I believe one of the bridges to clashes in culture is a show of good faith, precedent with honesty and courage. To simply extend a...
Faisal Alqethami
Mar 111 min read
Cruel Innovation
☠️ Sometimes the innovation process is a sham, so many efforts and time gets wasted. Not in the greater scheme of things, but in the day...
Faisal Alqethami
Mar 92 min read
How both Simple and Complex Innovation Is
🏔️ I find it very interesting, what? You may ask. How both simple and complex innovation is. 🧬 On one side, the keys to the process is...
Faisal Alqethami
Mar 71 min read
The secret to Innovation is Impact
🤫 The secret to what we do is impact, and that keeps us going in both our professional careers and personal lives. How so? Impacting...
Faisal Alqethami
Mar 51 min read
The top 5 challenges of building an innovation program, and how to overcome them.
You have to find a balance between design and execution, just like in life, everything comes at a cost. And at a value. One of the best...

Faisal Q
Aug 27, 20224 min read
Innovation Programs
Bootcamps, Accelerators, Incubators, Hackathons, Ideathons, Call them Marathons if you want, they all fall under the category of...

Faisal Q
Aug 4, 20222 min read
Innovation in Writing
Dealing with ideas in writing is kinda like dealing with ideas in innovation. I mean an idea is an idea, right? I’m starting to wonder if...

Faisal Q
Apr 10, 20222 min read
The Anchor of Innovation
Just like in good research endeavor, one needs an anchor person to bring him back when needed. ⚓️ An anchor of innovation is a person who...

Faisal Q
Apr 9, 20222 min read
Music & Innovation
🎧 I have been part of an underground music studio for more than 10 years, and these are innovation related inspirations I drew from the...

Faisal Q
Apr 9, 20222 min read
Miscommunication in Innovation
☠️ Miscommunication in innovation is a lethal factor that kills ideas, not because the idea isn’t good, rather because it gets...

Faisal Q
Apr 8, 20222 min read
The Underbelly of Innovation
The underbelly of innovation is community building, an epiphany that took me years to realize. In my early experiences, I was an...

Faisal Q
Apr 7, 20222 min read
Designing Innovation Programs, A Simple Practical Guide for Aspiring Innovation Managers
I have been designing innovation programs since 2017, and here is how I’ve always did it in a few simple steps. 🏛 The sub-levels and...

Faisal Q
Apr 5, 20222 min read
The Spirit of Innovation — Part 2
The spirit of innovation is collaboration, it takes courage, authenticity, and transparent communication. I have seen many organizations...

Faisal Q
Apr 3, 20221 min read
The Spirit of Innovation — Part 1
The spirit of innovation is a welcoming one, with open arms to collaboration. And the truth that everyone is unique in his own way and...

Faisal Q
Apr 2, 20222 min read
The 10th Condition: Everyone Plays a Role
Every person plays a different role in the innovation process, including the funnel. This is one of the real practical lessons I learned...

Faisal Q
Mar 31, 20222 min read
The 9th Condition: Collaboration is Key
In math, one plus one equals two. But in a collective, one plus one equals twelve. An innovation based culture is one of collaboration,...

Faisal Q
Mar 30, 20221 min read
The 8th Condition: Orchestrate the Thought Process
Now for this one listen closely, as ideas stem out of thinking then facilitating innovation is like orchestrating a symphony. Triggering...

Faisal Q
Mar 29, 20221 min read
The 7th Condition: Innovation is a Mindset
I realized there is one thing that is very important to understand other than the basic innovation process, and that is innovation is a...

Faisal Q
Mar 28, 20222 min read
The 6th Condition: Believe in the Process
It is not easy to be called crazy, to protect the funnel and defend the discipline against external forces. Constantly! “When you...

Faisal Q
Mar 27, 20222 min read
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