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JULY 5, 2016

In addition to some training methods that… Read More Laboratories of Innovation – Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. But I have watched clips, and I have marveled at the records falling. The team at 538.com com wrote about the big breakthroughs that led to leaps in the record.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

I have read and presented synopses of many, many books dealing with creativity and innovation. I read a lot of articles and posts on innovation. I think I’m sensing a very subtle shift. I could be wrong about this, but I think I’m sensing this… It now seems that everyone agrees — we have to […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In it, they focus on the firm’s annual study of R&D spending, one that reveals the tools that are transforming innovation—from customer insight to product launch. To read the complete […]. Bob''s blog entries Barry Jaruzelski Booz & Company’s annual study of R&D spending Catalent Craig & Karl Edward H.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation Gijs van Wulfen provides BIS Publishers (2013) Just about everything you need to know about how to establish and then sustain an innovation culture By the time I began to read this book, I was already convinced that the innovation process is a journey of discovery […].

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MAY 10, 2013

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs Larry Keeley with Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn, and Helen Walters John Wiley & Sons (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison With regard to the Edison quotation, I agree while presuming to add, “Execution without discipline is merely activity.”

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Bob''s blog entries “I’m not a creative person” Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All HarperBusiness How might we inspire young people to cultivate their creative confidence?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 23, 2011

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * One tried-and-true innovation trick is to look for analogies. When [.].

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Deloitte University Press From Exponential Technologies to Exponential Innovation John Hagel III John Seely Brown (JSB) Michael Lui Report 2 in the 2013 Shift Index series Tamara Samoylova' . * * * The cost-performance of three core digital building blocks—computing power, storage, and bandwidth—has been […].

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dave Marzo for Talent Management magazine in which he discusses how and why companies that take advantage of technology and allow employees to have a voice in their development plans will achieve more engagement and a reputation for innovation. To read the complete article, check out […].

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JUNE 4, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Harvard Business Review HBR newsletters How to Keep Innovation Jams Small and Focused Management Tip of the Day' . * * * Bringing together people from different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm a problem — otherwise known as “jamming” – has become a popular way to unearth new […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Throughout its history, the United States has valued innovation more than security, technological change more than traditional ways of doing things, and hope for the future more than veneration of the past. America’s culture of innovation, its economic resilience, its [.].

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JUNE 18, 2011

Here’s a treat: A special edition of Joe’s Journal, featuring a talk that Joe Maciariello, the Drucker Institute’s academic and research director, delivered at the inaugural TEDxOrangeCoast event, “Innovation Without Borders,” on May 19 in Costa Mesa, Calif. America [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2011

In this instance, Kristina “Z&# Holly’s selections and discussion of “Best Business Books 2010: Innovation> Innovation as a Social Act Steven Johnson Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Riverhead, 2010) John Hagel III, John Seely [.].

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

In The Innovation Expedition, Gijus van Wulfen identifies and discusses lessons to be learned from great explorers such as Roald Amundsen, Neil Armstrong, Christopher Columbus, Yuri Gagarin, Edmund Hillary, David Livingston, Ferdinand Magellan, and Ernest Shackleton.

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MAY 8, 2013

The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Joshua Lerner Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How to combine two traditional models “within a powerful system that consistently and efficiently produces new ideas” By nature, books about innovation should contribute something new and/or something better to our (..)

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APRIL 11, 2011

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * We all know innovation has its own language conventions, [.]. James Wilson for the Harvard Business Review blog.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

A couple of observations “so far”: Observation #1 – a lot of innovation is driven by the pursuit of “fun.” The book describes the technological breakthroughs that were needed to take gaming to… Read More Gaming as Innovation Driver; Robots on the Rise – Insight from Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable. Especially gaming.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Sometimes, you just need to pull your team aside for a good discussion… So, I was asked to help come up with some discussion questions about this era of perpetual innovation. These might be useful for any leadership team “let’s think about things” discussion. #1 Randy''s blog entries'

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MARCH 31, 2013

Getting Innovation Right: How Leaders Leverage Inflection Points to Drive Success Seth Kahan Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In their latest collaboration, Beyond the Idea, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, explain how to execute innovation in any organization. As they explain, “The most important message in Beyond the Idea is very simple: innovation execution is its own unique discipline. It requires time, energy, and distinct thinking.

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AUGUST 31, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "How Do You Create Innovation in Your Business? Small Giants Community (ISBC) Kill the Company: End the Status Quo [comma] Start an Innovation Revolution Lisa Bodell Raul Candeloro Wall Street Journal' Kill the Company" Glenn Burr Inc.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

Here’s an article by Ryan McCarthy that describes how Nokia could have been ahead of the game on the iPhone type phone, and then dropped the ball: Counterparties: Why big companies are bad at innovating. …as as early as 2000, the Finnish phone maker had designed a proto-iPhone – complete with a color touch screen and [.].

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Walter Isaacson’s The Innovators sits at the Top Spot. The challenge of innovation seems to dominate the top of this month’s list. The Innovators, How We Got to Now, How Google Works, and to a great extent Zero to One are all about […]. Here’s the November, 2014 New York Times Business Books Best Sellers List.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why the healthiest organizations are those in which pursuit of improvement is constant, tenacious, and collaborative.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

To check out all the online resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscriptions information, please click here. * * * We’re proud to be publishing the first appearance of the World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies, a ranking that we hope to make an [.].

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

In a recent email update, he asks several intriguing questions: Are there CEOs anywhere in the world who want their companies to become less innovative? Tom Stewart is Booz & Company’s Chief Marketing & Knowledge Officer. Is anyone calling on employees to do a better job of thinking inside the box?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a brilliant article co-authored by Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt for Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2010).

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AUGUST 27, 2013

school") The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO [comma] America''s Leading Design Firm The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO''s Strategies for Defeating the Devil''s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization Tom Kelley and David Kelley on the Core Principles of Design-Driven Innovation'

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Serial Innovators: Firms That Change the World Claudio Feser John Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why continuous innovation and adaptation can help an organization “live” longer What we have here is a “hybrid” narrative that develops on two separate but interdependent levels: a fictional account that focuses on Carl Berger (CEO of American Health [.]. (..)

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JUNE 16, 2011

Far too many managers believe that depriving projects of resources will inspire innovation. Scarcity seems to have replaced necessity as the mother of invention in today’s organizations. While [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 11, 2016

But I played in the days… Read More Laboratories of Innovation – Wimbledon Champion Andy Murray and his team of Coaches. I’ve loved reading about him, and his finals opponent Milos Raonic; their backgrounds, their current coaches; their “teams.” Side note: I went through college on a tennis scholarship.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home, Win Everywhere Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble Harvard Business School Press (2012) How and why reverse innovation can help to reverse the negative trends and tendencies that can weaken an organization Those who have read one or more of Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble’s previously published books (..)

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

In Tom Kelley and David Kelley’s book, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (to be published by Crown Business, October 2013), they offer some excellent advice on the “care and feeding of an innovation team.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 6, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Mitra Best for the PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Innovation blog. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up for email updates, please click here. * * * I spent a good portion of my youth imagining galactic travel, robots on other planets, and [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Most people struggle to do what innovators excel at: connecting the unconnected. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Here are three ways to get in the habit of making new associations: 1. [.].

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Diana Farrell Elizabeth Almasi Doshi James Manyika McKinsey Center for Government McKinsey Global Institute McKinsey Quarterly McKinsey’s Business Technology Office Michael Chui Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information Peter Groves Steve Van Kuiken the economic potential of open data and how governments (..)

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin FT Press/Pearson (2011) How and why global networks of highly specialized expertise create value in the challenge driven enterprise In Open Business Models (2003), Henry Chesbrough observes, “An open business model uses a new (..)

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