Building your innovation toolkit: why Phil McKinney is awesome

Phil McKinney (philmckinney.com, @philmckinney) is the former CTO of HP (now retired), author,  innovation coach and mentor to many.

I have followed Phil’s Killer Innovations podcast and his blog for a number of years and continue to be impressed by how selflessly he shares a successful career’s worth of knowledge and tools. Phil has always said that early in his career, he was taken in and mentored by a successful executive and that this mentor had a profound effect ion both his career and his life. Phil’s contributions are his way of “paying it forward” and helping the next generation of innovators.

I have listened to almost all of the podcasts but keep coming back to podcast 27: Ranking Your Ideas. When brainstorming or sorting through your ideas book, it can be tough to decide what you should actually work on. Using a series of questions, Phil will help you sort through the pile to find the standouts.

I have mentioned Phil before, but I wanted to expand a bit on why his information is so valuable for your innovation toolkit.

If you are interested in more info on building your innovation toolkit, check out my post here.

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After a long period of inactivity here, I decided to get back up and running. I was running a LAMP stack on a home server, but maintenance was taking up all of my blogging time – to the point where I stopped writing. I decided to move everything into EC2 and stop worrying about the infrastructure and focus on content. The move was surprisingly easy. Now, to finish these draft posts and get them published…