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BIF-6: Stunning Sights, Interesting People, Innovative Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

Today began with a drive East from my home in Connecticut to Saul Kaplan’s wonderful Business Innovation Factory Conference (called “BIF-6″) in Providence, Rhode Island. Driving into the sunrise on this sunny, clear day with a hint of Fall in the air was simply stunning. Military Gamification in Everything?

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Leading a Culture of Innovation

LDRLB

This last week at the Front End of Innovation conference in Boston, I shared a presentation on the Strategies and Tools for Creating a Culture of Innovation. Innovation Leadership creativity innovation kaplan organizational culture' So how do you do it? Needless to say, there’s no simple answer. That’s the source of real innovation.

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BIF-6 Summed Up: Optimism-Hope-Trust-Innovation

Mills Scofield

I'm still trying to process the last week; a wonderfully relaxing and productive (not an oxymoron) sabbatical on the dock in Maine, a day at Brown with terrific kids (I'm ready to go back) and BIF-6. If you are ever, ever able to attend BIF's annual conference, spare nothing and go.

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Zen And The Art Of Small Town Revitalization

The Horizons Tracker

These typically come from clients, universities and conferences, with firms all too well aware of the importance of non-local knowledge to their business. “We have three fundamental long-term objectives for the company, which are happy staff, happy customers and happy suppliers,” Tang says.

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Stop Me Before I “Innovate” Again!

Harvard Business Review

Creativity guru Saul Kaplan , founder of the Business Innovation Factory, warns that too many competitors in too many fields are content with being “share takers”—tweaking at the margins to win a little more business. I guess Ivy League schools are not the only organizations that engage in rampant grade inflation. Communication Innovation'

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15 Hours: A Common Sense Action Blueprint for Congress

Mills Scofield

Sam Gilman and Andrew Kaplan , college juniors started Common Sense Action in 2012 with one chapter. A single conference room. As the day went on, the conversation grew more and more productive. What if our youth started to take government back? Well, it''s happening. Read on, be proud of our next generation and get on board !

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