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London Gets a Boost in Innovation: The New Masters Program at City University London
London may be getting a boost in innovation with an exciting new innovation training program, the “MICL” (pronounced like “Michael”), short for Masters in Innovation, Creativity, and Leadership, a masters degree program offered at City University London. See http://creativity.city.ac.uk/ for details. The program involves the arts, business, law, social science,...
Lessons from Tyler Heights: Beware the Unintended Consequences of Metrics and Incentives
One can find many interesting lessons for business and innovation in case studies from ongoing experiments in public education. For example, the Summer 2010 edition of American Educator illustrates a lesson we teach in Conquering Innovation Fatigue: metrics to drive performance can have unintended consequences that may hurt rather than...
As we’re seeing in the job placement industry, finding and keeping top-notch employees takes far more than the promise of a nice paycheck even in a down economy. (Don’t take my word for it; this video is a must-see for anyone looking to retain talented workers.) If you want to create...
Cheryl’s article, “21st Century Challenges” appeared in The H.S. Group’s summer 2010 newsletter “Intransition.” The article discusses how companies can deliver top-line growth and true innovation in a tough business climate by overcoming the two-fold challenge of talent management and innovation. Click here to read the full article....
As a parent I’ve had a lot of experience delving into the mindset of one of the biggest market segments in the world. Generation Y, sometimes called the Millenials or echo boomers, will significantly shape the way Boomers (like me) work, shop and play. There are a lot of forces shaping...
Innovationedge’s Innovation Industry Pulse Poll was featured in an article titled, “Enhanced value, customer experience trump prices” in the The Post-Crescent business section on July 13, 2010. Click the image below to read the article....
Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
There's a growing movement among people who think about and deal with pass-along content to abandon the term "viral" and start calling things "spreadable" instead. The argument in favor of the latter was first articulated by Henry Jenkins in his eight-part blog post a year ago...
Finnish scent marketing firm Ideair used ten restaurants and bars to conduct an interesting test of the effect of scent on product sales. As reported by Reuters, five locations used only visual ads for a specific liquor brands while the other five used the same ads...
Pew Internet has just published a report about the demographics of Web video in the US - The State of Online Video. No great shocks. Bottom line. Web video is mighty important. The more wealthy you are, the better educated you are the more likely you are to...
The Future of News - Peak Journalism
"Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism." Clay Shirky ...
Consensus Advisors just released their 2009-2010 Retailer Health Ratings (RHRs) report. The RHRs measure and compare retailers over a five-year period on: ...
Four Essays Addressing Risky Behaviors and Online Safety
At Harvard’s Berkman Center, John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, and I have been co-directing the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative to investigate the role that policy can play in addressing core issues involving youth and media. John has been leading up the Privacy, Publicity,...
BusinessWeek.com -- Innovation
Atheist Robert Wilson Gives N.Y. Catholic Schools $5.6 Million
Retired hedge fund titan Robert W. Wilson lost his faith in God years ago, yet he believes in Catholic schools and gave $5.6 million to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York this summer....
Vidyo: Videoconferencing's Best Hope?
A New Jersey startup gets pricey and basic systems communicating—and could be videoconferencing's ticket to the mainstream...
How Question Sites Could Become Big Business
Q&A services like Fluther and Quora could be a lucrative online subindustry that could lead to targeted advertising...
Gulf Rescuers Find Lesson, Hope in Oiled Birds, 89 Turtle Eggs
On a recent sweltering day in Theodore, Alabama, the Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center took in a single bird for a cleaning....
Ty Liotta's site is where nerds plunk down big bucks for the coolest—to them—stuff they can buy...
The Harvard engineering professor is creating mechanical insects that could be used in agriculture, medicine—and even espionage...
The Heart of Innovation
20 Reasons Why Many People Get Their Best Ideas in the Shower
During the past 25 years, I've asked more than 10,000 people where and when they get their best ideas. I get all kinds of answers, but the one that has always fascinated me is "the shower" -- maybe because......
Unleash Your Inner Genie, Virtually
In olden times (pre-Starbucks, pre-Twitter, pre-Lady Gaga), the quickest way to get your wishes fulfilled was to get a magic lamp, rub it, and wait for the genie to appear. Times have changed. Now, it seems, you need a......
The 10 Personas of a Good Brainstorm Facilitator
Allow me to make a wild guess here and postulate that you have participated in more than a few brainstorm sessions in your life. Yes? And allow me to make yet another wild guess and state that many of......
One of my favorite clients of all time was a key manager in a prominent Fortune 500 company. She was smart. She was funny. She was creative. And she was kind. Then her company adopted Six Sigma. I couldn't......
My big insight about innovation these days would make Nobel Prize winner, Niels Bohr, proud. "Now that we have met with paradox," explained Dr. Bohr, "we have some hope of making progress." Innovation is full of it -- paradox,......
Today, my wife and I bought a Turkish rug from Mehmet, Istanbul's Steve Jobs of rug merchants. If I could run my company as well he could sell, I'd be a very wealthy man. Technically, speaking, Mehmet didn't really......
In Pursuit of Elegance
3 Ways to Escape the Competitive Herd
Every once in a while, I read, hear or see something that stops me, grabs me and pulls me in, simply because it’s somehow different. And once in an even greater while, that something is so good I’m struck with creative envy, wishing I was the creator of that something....
10 Tips for Re-energizing Your Day, Every Day
When he wrote his 2004 bestselling book The Power of Full Engagement, Tony Schwartz, CEO of The Energy Project, wrote for 10 to 12 hours at a time, as he had done in writing his previous books. He never finished a book in less than a year. For his new book, The...
3 Ways to Think Like a Designer
It has become apparent to me through comments, questions and work with clients that many business owners and operators believe design-based innovation, aka design thinking, is limited to products... that services and processes and web operations don’t really lend themselves to the discipline of design thinking, beyond perhaps the aesthetics...
Early Tests Pin Toyota Accidents on Drivers
Maybe too early to tell if there's anything conclusive here, but this is an important read in today's WSJ.Early Tests Pin Toyota Accidents on Driver "The U.S. Department of Transportation has analyzed dozens of data recorders from Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles involved in accidents blamed on sudden acceleration and found that...
Tips on Boosting Workplace Happiness
I’ve been a fan and follower of Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project for some time. If you’re not familiar with Gretchen or her project, her goal was to spend, as she says, “a year test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture about how to be...
5 iPhone Apps to Boost Your Business Creativity
I’ve been testing out some of the many iPhone apps available in the area of creativity, design and innovation, and there are five that I really like and recommend. Here they are, in no particular order. READ MORE HERE. ...
Be Innovation
One Team, One Message, One Brand (via GaWrilla)
A national tv commercial used to be an effort in branding. It used to be the only effort in branding that really existed. And it was in a time when “branding” as a marketing concept didn’t really exist. Today, branding exists in every facet of your company. And one of...
Create Unique Customer Interactions (via Gawrilla)
If you’re in business to make money, you need customers. And if you have customers, there has to be some form of communication between you and your customers. Hey, even if you fail to get customers, you are communicating in other ways to those people you had hoped would become...
The New Marketers (via GaWrilla)
There are a lot of people in this world who can call themselves marketers. Marketing has been a term that has expanded to cover many facets of any business. You can market your ideas, your business, your products, and even yourself. Yet the word marketing is still seen by many...
123People Scares the Innovation Out of Me
As a proponent of new technologies that make it simple and convenient to find information online, I am struggling with this one. And as I question the people around me, it seems that they are struggling with it as well. Most people are a bit put off by the service,...
I know that I don’t update this blog as often as I used to, or as often as I probably should. But upon scanning the headlines of the blogs that I follow this morning, one inspired me to get back in the game, if only for this one post. Awhile back...
Businesses all over the world ask themselves the same questions every day. Or, if they don’t, they probably should. “How can we make our company better? Run smoother? More efficient? Make more money?” Often times we look outside the company for help or advice. Sometimes we think that we know all the...
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JUGAAD! India's Next Global Export: Innovation
From Business Week : Hat Tip to John HagelIndia's economic growth is being fueled by a home-grown method of innovation they call JUGAAD - 'The term seems likely to enter the lexicon of management consultants mingling with Six Sigma, total quality, lean, and kaizen, the Japanese term for continuous improvement."India's...
Global Venture Lab Network — Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
Global Venture Lab Network — Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology...
Sustainability Evolves from Fad To Force
Sustainability is evolving quickly to become a major force in business practices and in business models. One of the best ways to think about sustainability is the triple bottom line model. This model speaks to developing business models that can show profit in three major areas - environment, economic, and...
Planning for the Unthinkable Through Relentless Innovation
Joshua Cooper Ramo’s new book, The Age of the Unthinkable, provides a useful portrait of our difficult times, and an even more useful set of frameworks for how we ought to be dealing with it.Ramo shares insights he has gathered through dialog with some of what appear to be the...
Hydrogen Car going Open Source
Whether you have much experience with open source or have explored the potential in engaging a community in co-design and develop or not - it sure is a good idea to pay attention to possible disruptive nature of open source business models in every industry. The manufacturer of a hydrogen...
Securing Innovation
Every Monday, lawyers who blog get together for Blawg Review and share some of the best recent law blog posts of the previous week or so. Colin Samuels, Blawg Review Sherpa Emeritus, describes it best. "Where once we were isolated legal students, practitioners, and academics who could share our thoughts only...
Prior Art in the Library of Congress
Business Reference Services is the starting point for conducting research at the Library of Congress in the subject areas of business and economics. On the Library of Congress website, reference specialists in specific subject areas of business assist patrons in formulating search strategies and gaining access...
First Patent Granted in the United States
The first patent granted in the United States of America was for an improvement "in the making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process." The patent was signed by President George Washington, Attorney General Edmund Randolph, and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Here's the story of...
Google Patents Indexing, Retrieval of Blogs
This week, Google Inc. was assigned a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO for the invention of a system and method for indexing and retrieval of blogs. You can find details of this new patent 7765209 in IP.com's Intellectual Property Library, which includes detailed information for this...
Search IBM® Redbooks® in IP.com Library
IBM Redbooks represent a unique source of technical art, so IP.com is especially pleased to bring the advanced searching and more-like-this capabilities of IP.com's Intellectual Property Library to this material, which can now be searched and browsed in this new format. For example, here's some recent IBM Redbooks publications. IBM Redbooks...
My good friend Vincent LoTempio is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act with an inspiring presentation of Blawg Review #274 he's put together on the LoTempio Law Blog, including a link to a video I shot of him showing kids how to play catch with one...
innovation playground Idris Mootee
I’ve a stack of books sitting on my coffee table waiting for me to write a review. I am reading less and less lately, from a historically high of 4 books a month to now 15 books a year. But I am buying more art books. And I review 2...
What Is A Social Enterprise? There Is Still A Lot Of Debate?
Social enterprise is a hot idea. Being asocial entrepreneurship these days is way cooler than being a iBanker. I think we are only seeing the beginning of a long term trend, people realize it takes a new kind of enterprise to solve the world’s problem. And NGOs are not the...
From A Behavioral Economic Perspective, I Think Many Of Us Are Considered Imcompetent As A Consumer.
We have to deal with economic decisions on an everyday basis without knowing it. Here’s a few example of what I have been dealing with the last two days. From buying a pair of sneakers to using the iPad. I discovered a little animal trapped inside bottom of my chimney...
I have done about two dozen of interviews for new recruits the last 2 weeks in SF. 80% of them told me that they are very creative, and the other 20% didn’t mention that at all. I guess half of that 20% felt that there was no need to bring...
50% Of All Market Research Spend Is Wasted; But It Is Not Difficult To Know Which Half.
Over the years I have seen a lot of companies producing tons of useless market research mostly telling them things they already know or useless data collected using the wrong methodologies or not properly interpreted. In most cases they commissioned the research, simply because they had allocated the budget for...
Walk into a Barnes and Noble you can find dozen of books on innovation. There are books from teaching the ‘how to” to creative thinking”. Not many good ones simply because the subject is a moving target with rules being broken and created everyday, existing tools are getting obsolete, and...
Creative Think
We Measure the Shortest Shadows of the Year!
One of the pluses of swimming Masters at noon is that we get to observe the sun's transit on a daily basis. [The sun's transit is its highest point in the sky each day. Throughout the year, this usually occurs sometime between 12:00 Noon and 1:20 PM — depending on...
Happy Kit Puts A Smile on Your Face
Would you like to be happy? No problem at all. Here's your "Happy Kit." Guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Just follow these simple instructions....
Financial Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes
Source: http://www.thecomingdepression.blogspot.com...
Niftiest Logo I've Seen in a While
It was made by logo designer Richard Fonteneau. The logo has two visual elements: The golfer and his swing, the spartan face/helmet. Quite clever. Makes you look twice . . . and think twice. [via Alex von Oech] From the comments by Wes George: This kind of ambiguous imagery has...
I like this list of eight paradoxes of creativity from creativity thinker Michael Michalko (author of Thinkertoys, among other works): To create, a person must Have knowledge but forget the knowledge; See unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder; Work hard but spend time doing nothing; Create...
It's Time to Think Like A Fool!
It's that time of year again! And it's time for one of my very favorite creative thinking strategies: Think Like A Fool Image from the Creative Whack Pack Carrying the strategy of "looking at things differently" to extremes brings us to the realm of the fool, the being for whom...
VizThink
The New York Times & Infographics: How they do it.
Gestalten, creators of some fantastic visual oriented content including books, video & other media recently posted an episode of their Gestalten.tv podcast where they sat down wia couple of members of the New York Times infographics team to talk about … Continue reading → Liked this article? You may also enjoy:Bigger...
VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for August 4th
A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with … Continue reading → Liked this article? You may also enjoy:“Abstract...
[Webinar] Design & Politics: A Conversation With Scott Thomas
Last week, Scott Thomas (aka @SimpleScott), Design Director for the 2008 Obama campaign joined us here at VizThink for a conversation about his experiences during the campaign and how design played a key role in helping their candidate deliver a … Continue reading → Liked this article? You may also enjoy:Online...
VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for July 22nd
A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with … Continue reading → Liked this article? You may also enjoy:Community...
VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for July 20th
A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with … Continue reading → Liked this article? You may also enjoy:Coming...
Online Event! Design & Politics: A Conversation with Scott Thomas
Here at VizThink, we were inspired by the role that visual design and expression played in the last presidential election campaign in the United States. Not only was design a very key component of the Obama strategy, but it was … Continue reading → Liked this article? You may also enjoy:[Webinar]...
New Medici - Media Strategy + Lifestyle Network
The High-Paid Life or Decade of CEOs
Annual compensation for CEOs is nearly always a thorny question. Not so ironically, every CEO wants to land on Forbes’ “Billionaire List,” but mention of annual salaries for public companies brings a corporate chorus of no comments or quick stage lefts - helicopter waiting depending on the benefits package. Via WSJ (including...
Newspaper of the Future, Ex-Googler Style
Calling itself “The World’s First Personalized Newspaper,” Hawthorne Labs has released Apollo on iPad only ($2.99 and going to $4.99). Founded by Google ex-coders for the most part, Apollo offers a cleaner, more laid-out version of NetVibes, Google News, AllTop, Newser, Yahoo!, HuffPo/Drudge - basically any of the news aggregators...
Via Barbieri’s Facebook feed - great take on the entrepreneurial flow chart: Related posts:AOL Anti-Portal: Hub and Flow At New Medici we're intrigued by niche content networks and...Angel Investors: No Bootstraps, No Problem (Maybe) In the spirit of covering topics that my readers are...The Ten Spot: Apr 26, 2010 Back to...
Reelist: 500 Million Facebook Friends
Sony Pictures keeps on improving its marketing game online. With the upcoming “Facebook” film, The Social Network, directed by David Fincher, Sony’s domain choice in 500millionfriends.com is inspired branding. Compared to all of the usual/uninspired studio domains, e.g., blankmovie.com, blankthemovie.com, blank-movie.com, blank-thefilm.com and the random .net absurdity, 500MillionFriends is welcome creativity/cleverness from a major studio. The...
X|Media|Lab Amsterdam Keynote/Interview on Media
From my X|Media|Lab keynote at Amsterdam last November, 2009, addressing the NPOX public broadcasting group. After the jump, a 10-minute breakaway interview on media… Adrian Sexton, CEO, New Medici from Jonathan Marks on Vimeo. I enjoyed speaking with Adrian Sexton who is Co-Founder & CEO of New Medici LLC, a media strategy and...
The Reboot of Transmedia Content
Transmedia is a reboot of saying multi-platform media or IP, but now tied to a hopefully valuable piece of IP real estate. It’s like adding interactive curb appeal to your content property. A little viral interest or insurance doesn’t hurt… Transmedia content is also “bite-sized, buy-in for consumers” or “low-cost lure,” i.e.,...
The Future is Bright
Why You Should Love The #Facebook Like Button #F8conference
Note: I am 3 months late on posting this, but I thought it was still relevant. Thanks Marvel. — When Facebook announced its decision to switch from the “Become A Fan” button to the “Like” button, there was a lot of backlash. Many viewed the change as a something that...
Hello Toronto! See you next week New York!
This is going to be my weekend: Scotiabank Caribana Festival Launch from T-Square Media on Vimeo. + Let’s connect....
Behind the Brand: Episode 3 @MetathinQ @mgproject
The future is at it again. S/O to the big bro George 2.0. Advertisers: Send an RFP to MetaThinQ, you won’t be disappointed, I wasn’t. #PassportProject or watch TV....
Interwebs Famous Interview with Brian Moore of DatingBrian.com – Part 1 of 3
I started this blog with different interview series, such as Tastemakers and Bright Future (see Interviews). Now I give you Interwebs Famous. Brian Moore is a smartly dressed chap that is interning at BBH NY this summer within our Barn program. He decided to crowdsource his dating–leaving the people of...
TED Lecture 12: Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
“We have created something called the collective brain…we are the neurons” – Matt Ridley Reminds me of the concept of C.G. Jung‘s collective unconscious....
Kanye West Spitting New Material At Facebook HQ (Video)
The irony of Kanye spitting about the ageless racism of many white people while at Facebook HQ—where there is nothing but white employees. I dig the round of applause at the end. I wish I could read the minds of the onlookers. BTW this video will probably be taken down...
Stefan Lindegaard
Sharp Insights: What Everyone Wants
Sharp insights that can help others develop personally as well as professionally. This is what everyone craves for and as a thought leader many will look in your direction for this. A thought leader should look at insights in two ways.…...
Phil McKinney: HP’s Corporate Thought Leader
Can you work in a large corporation and still be a thought leader? Definitely! One great example is Phil McKinney, who in his “day job” is the vice president and chief technology officer for Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) Personal Systems Group. He is responsible…...
Thought Leadership: What Is It and How To Do It?
According to Wikipedia, a thought leader is a futurist or person who is recognized for innovative ideas and demonstrates the confidence to promote or share those ideas as actionable distilled insights How does this apply to the real world? I am…...
Community Building, Free Give-Aways, Personal Branding and Other Lessons from Five Experts
In this and in a series of similar blog posts, I will introduce you to experts or aspiring experts having lessons that we can all learn from. Dan Schawbel Lesson: Dan is a good example on how to share insights and experiences…...
The Pressure of Unpaid Bills: How Can Aspiring Experts Cope With This?
Are you working hard to establish yourself as a thought leader or expert? If so, then you have most likely faced the pressure of unpaid bills – or you will do so in the coming years. I definitely felt it during…...
Why Can’t We Learn More From Our Failures?
I had an interesting comment to my Top 10 Reasons for Open Innovation Failure post on the 15inno innovation blog. Scott Taback wrote: “I typically like to concentrate on why things succeed rather than fail but that’s just me…the eternal optimist.” My…...
Blue Ocean Strategy | Gabor George Burt on Creating Blue Ocean Strategy
Slingshot the book by Gabor George Burt...
Watch, listen, play… SLINGSHOT discussion series launches
It may be hard to believe, but all of us where children once. There was virtually no limit to what we could play and where. So what if we could re-ignite our childhood creativity for success in business and adulthood? Join Gabor as he embarks on a...
Departing from conventional wisdom: flying cars become reality
Companies today, facing an environment of great uncertainty, need to embrace the idea of challenging traditional industry assumptions. This perspective of defying conventional wisdom goes hand-in-hand with the process of Blue Ocean Strategy, which is a systematic approach to turning unconventional ideas into winning strategies. This week, to provide some inspiration,...
Blue Ocean Strategy Path 2: Look across strategic groups within industries
Continuing in our series which takes a closer look at each of the paths in Blue Ocean Strategy’s Six Paths Framework, our focus shifts to the second path — looking across strategic groups within industries. During the upcoming weeks we will highlight the remaining four paths, with each becoming accessible...
Defying Conventional Wisdom: Trading employees
Blue Ocean Strategy is all about challenging conventional wisdom — questioning taken-for-granted assumptions, and overstepping industry boundaries. It’s a frame of mind of continuously questioning and searching for a different angle and fresh perspective. You can draw inspiration from everyday life, and train your mind by having a discerning view...
Blue Ocean Strategy Path 1: Look across alternative industries
As part of our Blue Ocean Strategy Basics series, over the course of the next six weeks we will highlight each of the Six Paths. These paths challenge the six fundamental assumptions underlying many companies’ strategies. Once published, each path will then become accessible in the Blue Ocean Strategy Basics...