Purpose statement

This blog will provide a record of my activities while participating in the Pacific Century Fellows program; starting up Kuleana Micro-Lending; assisting Rep. Jessica Wooley, Common Cause Hawai'i and Voter Owned Hawai'i in their legislative initiatives; and working with the Clarence T.C. Ching PUEO (Partnerships in Unlimited Educational Opportunities) program. I've also included excerpts from books and magazines I've read, along with presentations and lectures I've attended that address relevant topics and issues.


Not everyone can be famous, but everyone can be great because everyone has the capacity to serve.
— MLK

Monday, April 4, 2011

Drucker’s Five Principles of Innovation

Drucker’s Five Principles of Innovation

Below are five principles that can help you take advantage of a new innovation you may have discovered.

1. Begin with an analysis of the opportunity.

2. Analyze the opportunity to see if people will be interested in using the innovation.

3. To be effective, the innovation must be simple and clearly focused on a specific need.

4. Effective innovations start small. By appealing to a small, limited market, a product or service requires little money and few people to produce and sell it. As the market grows, the company has time to fine-tune its processes and stay ahead of the emerging competition.

5. Aim at market leadership. If an innovation does not aim at leadership in the beginning, it is unlikely to be innovative enough to successfully establish itself. Leadership here can mean dominating a small market niche.

Some of this goes against the feedback we got from Island Innovation Fund, most notably the idea of starting small. We're in no rush so we're making sure we do this right.

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