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New Perspective on iPhone Changes Vision for Innovation, Collaboration
As a user experience designer, I often wonder how people with various physical or cognitive limitations interact with technology. What new innovations might be awaiting discovery because of their...
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Innovation Soul Food? Irritation!
Seriously! You know when you have an idea for a new business, product, service or process and you tell someone and they pick it apart? They tell you all the reasons it won’t work. You get really...
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Reinventing the Business Conference Experience: Creativity Meets Commerce
How many business conferences have you attended where the organizers pledged to make you more effective in your job and deliver insights you’ll immediately be able to apply? Afterward, office...
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Innocide!!!
Last month, my friend Whitney Johnson wrote a great post about entitlement being an innovation-killer. Please read it if you haven’t. I’m sure we all know examples of this in many aspects of our...
View ArticleA Gen Z: A New Class of Entrepreneurial, Collaborative Geeks
The Class of 2012 from many colleges represents a crop of graduates in what some are calling Generation Z, reports Tori Stilwell of the News & Observer, Raleigh, NC. At Duke University, many of...
View ArticleWhat The 3 Little Pigs Teach Us About Business Model Innovation
The Guardian aired a brilliant advertisement on February 29 – “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,” which, in 90 seconds, explains how the Guardian’s business model is changing, and the value of...
View Article3D Printing Lets Companies Manufacture Almost Any Shape
3D printing technologies let designers manufacture almost any shape they’ve imagined and computed in 3D software. Traditionally, designers were constrained by materials’ properties because forms and...
View ArticleIn Search Of Better
This month, @theBif launched a new CODE Green Energy Lab, with the foundational project In Good Company: Behavioral Methods for Energy Efficiency. I’ve been leading this project, and therefore...
View ArticleCollaborative Curves Enable Increasing Returns on Innovation
If you’ve heard about “experience curves,” you know that they deliver diminishing returns over time. Is there another way to keep on advancing? There is: collaboration curves. As discussed by John...
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Finding the Magic: Six Steps to a Collaborative Culture
The ingredients of social and collaboration have become key factors in successfully fostering innovation. But often it’s not easy for organizations to transform their approach from single-area silo...
View ArticleCollaborative Innovation Survey Results: Personal Benefits Gained
As you may have seen (and hopefully even participated!), we recently conducted a survey on Collaborative Innovation to learn how individuals and organizations are engaging in collaborative innovation...
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Review of the Global Innovation Policy Index 2012 (Part 1): the impact and...
Last month the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and the Kaufmann Foundation released The Global Innovation Policy Index for 2012. In this substantial report (at 136 pages it is...
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Terrafugia Debuts A Flying Car Built by Collaboration
There’s been a lot of media focus lately on new types of personal transportation, namely cars that fly. You may have heard about the one to which I’m referring — The Transition®, built by Terrafugia....
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Review of the Global Innovation Policy Index 2012 (Part 3): the demands for...
This is the last in a series of posts (Part I and Part II) providing an overview of the recently released Global Innovation Policy Index, developed jointly by the Information Technology and Innovation...
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In Review: Jugaad Innovation
I spent the formative years of my career working with entrepreneurs in developing countries. Part of my job was to study and understand the creative vehicles through which they resourced and scaled...
View ArticleCollaborative Innovation is the Mantra
One of the principles of business model innovation is collaborative innovation, says Saul Kaplan (@skap5) in his new book, the Business Model Innovation Factory. Kaplan, founder of the Business...
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Guy Kawasaki: The Art of Innovation
Dazzling us with engaging presentation skills and easy sense of humor, Guy Kawasaki , former Apple Chief Evangelist, kicked off the 2012 World Innovation Forum by sharing insights on innovation...
View ArticleCrowds, Funding, AND Better Fit
Despite being an early player in the crowdfunding space, it was only last year when I realized that crowdfunding means better fit funding. A variety of platforms are making it easy for makers and...
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7 Elements of Human-Centered Innovation
As indicators of economic rebound failed to gain traction in 2009 and 2010, the need for companies to find creative ways to hold onto market share and revenues, grew more urgent. Particularly hard-hit...
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Lingua Franca – The Value of a Common Language in Collaborative Innovation
A challenge for those who are heavily invested in innovation is the absence of common language. Before wrestling with the complexities of innovation as a practice expressing the inner working of this...
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