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The Phoenix Principle
Nero fiddled..... - GM and Whitacre
I don't know the source of the phrase, but since a young boy I've heard "Nero fiddled while Rome burned." The phrase was used to describe a leader who was so out of touch he was unable to do the......
Wearing a Bullseye on your business - WalMart
One of the worst impacts of Defend & Extend Management is the placement of a bullseye on your business. Take for example Microsoft. When everyone knows what software Microsoft is going to release, they start targeting it for hacking and......
Defend & Extend versus White Space - Microsoft vs. Google
Two tech giants are Microsoft and Google. The former has been around for over 30 years. The latter about a decade. Which is the company you should work for, or invest in? The one that has demonstrated a long history......
Apple's shareholder meeting was last week. In an era where shareholders are most worried about the survivability of the companies where they are invested, the biggest issue at Apple is what to do with all its cash! Reuters.com reported "Apple's......
10 Ways to Stay Ahead of the Competition - Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki contacted me a couple of weeks ago, asking me to write a short piece for him. I was happy to do so, and he published it at the BusinessInsider.com War Room as "10 Ways to Stay Ahead of......
"From the day we start kindergarten we fear the teacher's call to our parents saying, "Hello Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I'm sorry to tell you that Mary has been disruptive in class." We are taught, trained and indoctrinated to go......
Innovation CHEF
Innovation Report: Intellectual property
Interesting take on Intellectual Property from the Innovation Taskforce report. They recommend a number of items in relation to Intellectual property that they believe could make Ireland a centre of International Best Practice. A National IP protocol. Essentiality enabling companies to access IP created at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in a predictable...
Access the full web and not just a part of it
Love flash videos but concerned that the iPad won’t show them?HP says don’t compromise....
Yes, it is here. the much awaited report from the Innovation Taskforce was released today. The report is billed as an important element of the Government’s Plan for dealing with the challenges facing the Irish economy. Building Ireland’s Smart Economy. The report contains some recommendations intended to allow...
Look at that comments back again!worth a couple of hours to figure that out!...
@innovationirl got a grade of 97.6/100 on @grader
@innovationirl got a grade of 97.6/100 on @graderCheck it out: http://twitter.grader.com/innovationirl so what does that mean? Twitter Grader uses an algorithim based on a bunch of factors: Number of followers Power of followers (folks with a high grade) Number of updates Update recency Follower/following ratio Engagement all a bit of fun!...
Asustek demos Its First E-reader
At the Cebit show in Hanover Netbook pioneer Asustek unveiled it’s first e-reader. It is thin and has a 9 inch reader screen and looks the part. No prices as yet but could take on the Kindle other e-readers in a competitive way....
Fast Company
Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor
How can 1 in 7 people be malnourished in the modern world? A beautifully illustrated video shows the causes. To understand the complexities of the international food market--and how traders in Chicago can cause Africans to starve--you could get a ph.D. in economics, or read a 400-page report from...
Behind the Music: Devendra Banhart's Visual Art Takes Center Stage
The Us Weekly readers who know freak-folk musician Devendra Banhart as the hippie-haired beardo on the arm of Natalie Portman probably won't recognize him now. The Portman thing ended a while ago, for one. Plus he's wearing glasses these days, prescribed to him when he started getting headaches from poring...
Infographic: Tracking a Toxic Asset
NPR's Planet Money produces an astounding infographic that shows just how bad a bet the banks made when they went crazy for bundles of subprime mortgages. Toxic assets brought our economy to its knees. You remember those, right? They were bundles of sub-prime mortgages, which were sold to banks like...
Only 10 Tickets Left to Innovation Uncensored!
No joke: this is your last chance to get a ticket to attend Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference on April 21.Who will be there? Along with the editors and writers from this magazine (which is being honored as a finalist for ASME's Magazine of the Year), you'll get direct access...
You Saw the Exhibition, Now Buy the Art
The Guggenheim is auctioning off the works displayed in its recent exhibition, Contemplating the Void. Recently, we brought you a slideshow preview of a lovely exhibition at the Guggenheim, Contemplating the Void, which runs through April 28. In it, the Guggenheim invited 200 artists and designers to imagine radical installations for...
WANTED: The JakPak, a Jacket That Converts Into a Tent
Finally! Our wildest dreams for hobo-tech can now be had for $250. As a regular reader of FastCompany.com, you know that we keep sharp about developments in hobotech: From hobo-conventions for techies to rolling hobo shelters. So it's with great excitement that we bring you the JakPak, a jacket that...
INDIA INVENTS
Will Tejas survive Chinese competition?
Indian Innovators get awards but no rewards is a common refrain. The case of anti dumping duty on Chinese SDH equipment raises two old issues- do we need to support local innovators and if so do we know how to support our innovators? Case in brief : based on complaint by Tejas...
TePP Innovator Kranti is MIT TR35 innovator of the year 2010
TePP innovators Kranti Vistakula, Prajwal Kumar, Arvind Narayanan, Ashish Bhat, Shashikant Suryanarayanan are among the MIT TR 35 awardees and Kranti is the Innovator of the Year. I would like to reflect on the TePP process :Innovator Kranti (a student) contacted me ( from Hyderabad) on email with his idea...
Cisco announces its second Cisco I-Prize contest. In this open, global competition entrepreneurs submit proposals and collaborate to create the seed idea for Cisco's next billion-dollar business. Idea submissions should fall in one of four categories: The Future of Work:...
Here's an illustrated guide to the 20 iPhone patents that Apple's suing HTC over.Source: gigmodo...
The Finance Bill 2010-11 has created a corpus called National Clean Energy Fund, which will invest in entrepreneurial ventures and research in the field of clean energy technologies. The money for this will be garnered through a so-called ‘clean energy cess’ — Rs 50 on every tonne of...
Morpheus is now accepting applications for its fourth batch of startups. Last date for submission is 10 Mar 2010. There will be mentoring and seed funding of Rs 5 lakhs. See their existing portfolio of start-ups at:http://themorpheus.com/portfolio/...
Phil McKinney - Sharing his experiences on innovation, creativity and ingenuity
Getting The Timing Right For An Innovation – Like a slate!
I’m a firm believer that the difference between a good idea and a great idea is getting the timing right. There are a number of items to consider when deciding when is the right time to bring an innovation to market including: Is there a technology coming that will transform the experience/market? Are customers...
Podcast: Interview With Jim Sutton About The First Touch PC
This podcast is made possible by support from thenextbench.com and the Heritage of Innovation interview series. Many people think touch is a “new” thing as result of products introduced in the last few years. In reality, touch is just one example of innovations building on top of previous innovations. This weeks...
The “Creating Killer Innovations” CD Is Finally Here!
The long awaited Creating Killer Innovations CD is finally here! The CD has been two years in the making and I’m sure that many of you had given up that it would ever become a reality. To “thank you” for you patience, I’ve arranged for a $5.00 discount on the...
CIO’s Role In Innovation – Stirring Up Creativity At The Core (Video)
Many believe that the CIO's role is to keep the IT "lights" on. Given the I'm a former CIO, I understand and appreciate the challenges of the CIO job. Below is the link to a video of some of my thoughts on how IT and the CIO can...
One more thing on my plate – writing a regular column for Forbes
A few months ago, I was approached by Forbes.com about writing a regular column where I would share my views and opinions on technology. Given everything on my plate, I hesitated but finally made the plunge. Now I have one more person running my life, an editor! (Thanks Brett) ...
Are you ready to compete in the creative economy?
Just do a quick comparison of the market value to the book value for public U.S. companies over the last two decades and you will see the dramatic upward rise in value attributed to intangibles – ideas, innovations. In this new world, wealth creation is dependent upon the capacity of a nation to continually...
Idea Sandbox
I’m literally tearing through my old magazines – harvesting the stories that interest me. Going from paper to digital. I thought this Brief History of “Cool” was wicked cool. This is from four years ago… It would be interesting to know what the cool words are of 2010. Source: July/August 2006 Fast...
Out With The New, In With The Old
Today in Amsterdam, in a park near my home, I saw city workers replacing the new, contemporary lights [pictured, left] with this old-school style [right]. While this small image is a big grainy, you can see that these “new” lights are styled after old gas lamps. They have more charm than...
How To Drive Sales – The Basics
Ah… “Drive Sales.” Is there a company that doesn’t have “sales driving” as a key strategy? It can’t be much simpler than a choice of three levers. (1)Find New Customers Create a New Market with a new product or service, or Go deeper with your existing targets (2)Increase Frequency – Get existing customers to...
You Don’t Always Get What You Want. However…
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Five Better Ways To Remember Lists
Be sure to stop by the MarketingProf’s Daily Fix blog today (Friday) to read my post offering “better” ideas to remember short lists… That is, better than writing them on your hand. (It should post by 10 am EST). MarketingProf’s Daily Fix “Five Better Ways To Remember Lists” As marketers and business people...
Renjie Butalid
WOOF @ SUPERSKILLZ TORONTO 2010
My final edited video of my sister’s dance crew performance in Toronto at the Superskillz 2010 Talent Show, held at the Opera House on March 6, 2010. My younger sister Loubelle is part of the Western Ontario Organization of Filipinos (WOOF), a student club at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Loubelle...
Myth-conceptions of Dubai & Abu Dhabi
My Ignite Waterloo talk on the myth-conceptions of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which took place at the Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum on March 3, 2010, as part of Global Ignite Week. Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place Where the caravan camels roam Where they cut off your ear If...
My interview with Prashanth Gopalan featured on TechVibes. Renjie Butalid’s obsessed with change. Not the monetary type, but with the sort that launches movements, spurs creativity, tests organizations and attracts followers. He’s the Communications Co-ordinator of Social Innovation Generation, a Waterloo-based collaborative partnership between The J.W. McConnell Family...
Fast Company: How to Write a Mission Statement That Doesn’t Suck
By Dan Heath Use concrete language. Check out this mission statement from SonicBids, a fast-growing small business: “We want to help musicians get gigs, and promoters book the right bands. … We’re a bunch of people who think that music can truly change the world...
Canada and the Vancouver Olympic Games
I’m going to miss the Vancouver Olympic Games. These games certainly united the country, with yesterday’s Team Canada gold medal win over the United States bringing the country to a fever pitch. Yonge and Dundas in downtown Toronto was awash in a sea of humanity last night, with people out on the...
Downtown Toronto – Yonge and Dundas
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Grassroots Innovation
How often does the lens cap get replaced up there?...
Make it exciting......This sign is outside a kitchen remodeling shop that I drive by everyday. They could have said "Open House 3-22" and I wouldn't have noticed.Instead, "Only 13 days left" means I have to hurry and figure out how to get a babysitter....
Things that quite possibly only interest me....33 Years of Unbridled GrowthNew York City could be facing a loss of about 8,500 teacher jobs out of a total of 80,000. The last time the nation's largest school system laid off a teacher was 1976.1Simple Enough: The Money is Not ThereSocial Security's...
The first image is looks like any traditional gym in America.The second picture is of something, well, different. It's a picture of the Human Performance department of BASICS Sport Medicine. LinkThe difference between the two pictures? In the first picture, you do the exercise prescribed by that piece of equipment....
The folks at ideaconnection have a very cool newsletter that you can get for free by going here....
I found this on my credit card statement yesterday, it's a new feature:Apparently, I can save money by paying more than the monthly minimum.I'm pretty sure that the new credit card law made them list the payoff time for the minimum payment. To be helpful the credit card company...
InnovationLabs
I’m reading a book that I am enjoying enormously, and although I haven’t finished it yet, I found a passage that I appreciated so much that I wanted to post it here because it says so much about innovation. “An animal that depends on the accumulated knowledge of past generations has...
Predicting the Future: Trend Spotting Resources
Product Trends and Inspiration Most people who have been engaged in creativity and innovation, at some point, come to realize that cross pollination and lateral thinking are important sources for creating insights and generating breakthrough solutions to complex problems. I imagine most people have come to rely on particular resources for...
[This is a follow up to the previous post in this blog, "How to Create a Winning Business Model," February 5, 2010.] If business model innovation is the goal, and for most companies the evidence suggests that it should be, then we need a way to get there. InnovationLabs has created a...
How to Create a Winning Business Model
As a critical source of competitive advantage, innovation certainly deserves the attention it receives. But innovation is also notoriously difficult to manage. And while recognized innovators are widely admired for their achievements, every business leader knows that the pursuit of innovation is exceptionally challenging even as it is entirely necessary. The...
The Future of Business Education
There has been a lot written about the rate of change and how the speed of change isn’t going to slow down any time soon. One of the impacts of this condition is the complexity of doing business in any industry or sector of society has increased. This complexity challenges...
Help Wanted: Innovation (or maybe not…)
We hear from executives everywhere about how they are genuinely concerned about the state of innovation in their organizations, and how much they want innovation to improve. Often enough, when they need to hire new people, they’re hoping that the new staff will be able to help them with innovation too. ...
New and Improved Innovation Blog Site
Rube Goldberg Meets Music Video
Sure, they could have just used spray-paint cans on each other, but for a nearly four minute music video? That would be boring. This was much more fun......
Thinking in New Ways Gets President Obama's Attention
"Creative thinking" means looking at the same thing everyone else is looking at, and reaching a different conclusion. If so, the questioner in this video clip is a very creative thinker!...
"New and Valuable" beats "New" everytime
Scott Berkun wrote a great opinion piece in BusinessWeek about the fallacy of chasing innovation just for the sake of innovation. It's a nice articulation of why, in his words, "'good' beats 'innovative' every time." While the argument is solid, I'd argue that his use of terminology is...
FREE New & Improved Webinar Innovation for Results: ~ A LUNCH SAMPLER ~ March 16, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST Innovation for Results is New & Improved's two-day course that teaches participants how to make creativity and innovation happen by both creating opportunities and solving problems rapidly and effectively. All...
Are You Ready to Go into Space?
Burt Rutan and Richard Branson are guys who do more than complain about the government. They make things happen by going (technologically and business-model-wise) where no one has gone before. Space Tourism....
Neuroscience, Will and Mental Mastery
Learn more about using your will to manage your creative thinking by understanding a recent neuroscience breaklthrough....
Speedraft
Speedraft is mentioned in Kate Bachman’s excellent article in STAMPING Journal titled Accelerating Diemaking: 9 ways to faster design-build-tryout. We are listed as #9, but everyone who has used Speedraft knows we are #1. Seriously, Speedraft also has a hand in her items #1, 2, 6, and 7. Click here to read the...
I am pleased to announce that Speedraft is a member of the Microsoft Bizspark program! This exciting program is Microsoft’s answer to open source programming tools. As a member, we receive roughly $100,000 in free software development tools, support, and market exposure. The catch? We pay Microsoft $100 three years from...
There was a discussion on a LinkedIn tool and die group recently about how long it takes to quote a progressive die. One response was simply “two weeks”. This is wrong. Even assuming it takes two weeks to quote each progressive die, the statement “two weeks”, to be accurate, implies the die...
I am pleased to announce that Speedraft is now featured with the best of the best innovation sites at Alltop! We are also featured with the best of the best ecommerce feeds. You will notice the badges to the right as proof that Speedraft not only kicks ass, but is on Alltop. Alltop is the...
Here is a short presentation on the essence of Speedraft:...
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Ted Turner on Visionary Leadership
Ted Turner's tips for seeing over the horizon...
You may not be able to predict the future, but you can prepare for it by tracking early trends and staying open to disruptions....
Accelerate innovation by finding an analogous solution from a different industry. Search for adjacencies and proof points to find feasible solutions to tough problems....
Open innovation makes developing niche products and services affordable...
Shell, HP, Clorox & CSC: Protecting Open Innovation from Corporate Antibodies
By picking where open innovation occurs and what it communicates to the rest of the organization, innovators can protect open innovation efforts from corporate antibodies...
Invention Machine’s CTO on Open Innovation
How to organize and work with the ideas received from Open Innovation efforts...