2010

Mills Scofield

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Gamification in Everything?

Mills Scofield

As we're at a service stop along I-90 in NY on the way to Maine, my 10yr old daughter, walking on the dark tiles instead of the white tiles on the floor says, "Isn't it amazing how humans can turn everything into a game?" Wow! As we look at education, healthcare, healthy eating, etc. it's all turning into games to motivate the right behavior.

Education 126
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Currency of 21st Century Business? Connections

Mills Scofield

Sitting behind me at BIF-6 was this nice, unassuming guy. We struck up a conversation. As a result, a wonderful friendship has developed (which is easy to do at BIF). This guy was Michael Lee Stallard. As Michael and I started conversing, the importance of connections to help reframe, reform our world was/is a constant theme. Three years ago, Michael wrote a very important book underscoring this very point, Fired Up or Burned Out.

Books 121
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Incumbentitis - The Anti-Innovation Disease

Mills Scofield

Well, we've just been through quite an election - out with the ‘old', in with the new - well, somewhat, there were several incumbents re-elected. This isn't a mandate for or against either party; it was a mandate for an economic revolution to get rid of big government and make one that works for the people. Is the government capable of re-inventing itself?

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Innovation = People, People, People

Mills Scofield

Last week's provided great discussion on various tools and processes for innovating. Innovation3: Crowdsourcing, Tools & Culture Summit Jackie Hutter , and I did a workshop on Leading Indicators for Innovation (which I'll share soon). While there are many speakers on many topics, there are 4 I want to highlight (caution - long-ish blog!).

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Management Innovation is Radical

Mills Scofield

Steve Denning begins his book, The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century with a quote from John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison 's 2009 Shift Index to lay the foundation of the problem we face: "Remarkably, the return on assets for U.S. firms has steadily fallen to almost one quarter of 1965 levels.very few [workers] (20 percent) are passionate about their jobs.executive turnover is increasing.

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Return on Failure: Why is it so hard to learn?

Mills Scofield

We've talked about the hypothesis of ROF in Part I and what we can learn from failure in Part II. Now we'll turn to some of the reasons it's so hard to learn from failure. Well, learning isn't easy for many of us period. Is it due to management? To complexity of/in the organizations? It's due to a lot of things, and I'm certainly going to [.].

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Beware of Facts & Innovation

Mills Scofield

Facts & Data. At Bell Labs we used to say, "How much did you pay for that data?" Most market research projects - for strategic planning and innovation (my passions), or even incremental product development focus on getting the facts. Ok, here's one for you: "Since 1920, more Oberlin graduates have gone on to earn PhDs than have the graduates of any other American baccalaureate college.