Creative People Must Be Stopped (33 page)

Strategy constraints: innovative ideas don't fit the organization's strategy; knowing the intent; organization strategy is risk aversion first and innovation second; Organizational Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; organization's strategy doesn't reflect an ever-changing reality; overcoming; summary of

Structural constraints: the downside of size; efficiency and control; Organizational Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; overcoming; price of efficiency; rewarding survival instead of experimentation; summary of

Supplier constraints: difficulty getting the people you need; Industry Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; inertia of powerful professions, unions, and other guilds; overcoming; summary on; suppliers favoring their own interests

Suppliers: constraints related to; description of

Sutton, Robert

Sweat the presentation

System Concepts Laboratory

T

Taboos and traditions: group culture of; prize new problem-solving methods over

Taggar, Simon

Tan, Nick

Task conflict

Tata (India)

Technical language

Technological constraints: challenges of manipulating matter, time, and space; chapter reflection on; diagnosing failures related to; innovation proposal that considers; Keep the Change program overcoming; Lockheed A-12 plane story; natural environment: altering landscapes; physical: knowing what you know and don't know; summary of; Technological Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; Time: having time and making time; Venn diagram illustrating.
See also
Problem solving

Technological Constraints Diagnostic Survey: taking the; using the results

Technological roadmap tool: description of; NASA's human exploration destination systems

Tell the story

Tenner, Edward

Tennessee Valley Authority

Thacker, Charles

Thalidomide (late 1950s)

Thinking.
See
Intellection (thinking)

“Thought experiment” sketches

3M's Post-it

Time constraints: long feedback loops; overcoming; problem of; sequencing and coordination requirements; summary of; Technological Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; time required for learning

Toyota's Prius hybrid car

Traditions and taboos: group culture of; prize new problem-solving methods over; as tacit social controls

Triumph of the Nerds
(documentary)

Trust the doers

Tufte, Edward

Turner, James

U

Unconscious competence

Unconscious incompetence

Unions

United Nations General Assembly

U.S. Congress

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

USB drives

USENET groups

V

Value chain: definition of; knowing the; as resource constraint

Values: conflicting; letting be your guide; societal ideals and

Values and identity constraints: conflicting values; overcoming; Societal Constraints Diagnostic Survey on; societal values and ideals; summary of; tightly held social identity

Verbal communication: compared to other modes; stay mindful of your favored ways of

Victor, Bart

Victor Talking Machines

Virgin Airlines

Virgin Galactic

Virgin Records

VisiCalc

Visual communication: compared to other modes; exploring wide range of; photo files; “thought experiment” sketches to practice

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
(Tufte)

von Hipple, Eric

von Oech, Roger

W

Walmart

Walters Art Museum (Baltimore)

Weick, Karl

Weird Ideas That Work
(Sutton)

Why Things Bit Back
(Tenner)

Wikipedia

Wikis

Woznaik, Steve

WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”)

X

Xbox 360 (Homefront)

Xerox: brand name; network innovation of; Xerox PARC scenario

Z

“Z car” (Datsun)