February 2012
“According to Wikipedia, innovation is defined as:
The creation of better or...”
– From: Garious Blog — Social media innovation tips: open versus closed innovation
By Heba Hosny
““I detected a pattern suggesting that something everyone else had overlooked...”
– From: Psych Central News — Improving Innovation by Reinterpreting the Familiar
WatchReblogging doctorswithoutborders:
MSF’s Dr. Greg Elder appeared on CNN to talk about the Syrian regime’s campaign of unrelenting repression against people wounded in demonstrations and the medical workers trying to treat them.
While MSF cannot work directly in Syria, it has collected testimonies from wounded patients treated outside the country and from doctors inside Syria. The testimonies,...
“(02-07) 12:34 PST SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court declared...”
– From: SF Gate: A U.S. appeals court rules Prop. 8 unconstitutional
By Bob Egelko
“I love double entendres! In the same breath, they’re efficient and they can...”
– From: Innovation Excellence — Make Ideas Happen – the role of innovation strategy
By Bradley (Woody) Bendle
“Kodak’s failure isn’t one of a lack of vision or understanding. It...”
– From: Innovate on Purpose — Slow Motion Innovation Disaster
By Jeffrey Phillips
“This past week we had a #innochat tweet session (http://www.innochat.com) around...”
– From: Paul4innovating’s Blog — Unfreezing the middle, seeing a different innovating prospective
By Paul Hobcraft
“Autodesk’s Innovation Genome Project tried to quantify what worked about the...”
– From: FastCo.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation — The 6 Questions That Lead To New Innovations
By Sarah Krasley
“I’m honored to be a contributing author to this book, along with some of my...”
– From: PR, Social Media and Marketing Mentor Blog:
A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts (Kogan Page, 2011) Makes the Amazon UK Best Seller List!
By Cathryn Hrudicka
“The City of Palo Alto, California is currently considering options for how to...”
– From: The Creative Sage™ Blog, What’s Innovation Got to Do with It? — Silicon Valley Innovation Institute, 2/1/12 Event: High Tech Compost = Anaerobic Digestion Biochar
Posted by Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™ — via SVII.net
“In the aftermath of the recession, we have the opportunity to truly change the...”
– From: FastCo.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation — 5 Big Ideas For A New Economy
By Alexa Clay and Jon Camfield
“I quickly realized the power and potential of comparative advantage in making...”
– From: FastCo.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation — If You Want It Done Right, Don’t Do It Yourself
By Leah Busque, Founder of TaskRabbit, the pioneer in service networking
January 2012
“Creating a sustainable workplace can be pretty easy to do if you’ve got a green...”
– From: TriplePundit.com — Five Ingredients to Grow a Grassroots Green Team (and a sustainable workplace)
By Aimee C. Juarez
“Bestsellers in Change Management:
The most popular items in Change Management...”
– Amazon.co.uk Bestsellers: The most popular items in Change Management
Great news! The 2011 book to which I am a contributing author, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, has made the Amazon.UK Best Sellers list! The book was edited by Paul Sloane, with a...
“Joel Beckerman spent about 18 months developing a song that boils down to a...”
– From: WSJ.com — Making an Impression in Just Four Notes (about Sonic Branding)
By John Jurgensen
“I tend to not like offering up checklists as blog posts, you know those one...”
– From: Paul4innovating’s Blog — Innovation jobs-to-be-done — The Chief Innovation Officer’s Agenda
By Paul Hobcraft
““Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation. How else can the individual...”
– From: Forbes — Innovation Is A State of Mind
By Beth Comstock, Senior VP and CMO, G.E.
“For anything to get done in a modern business, someone needs to be responsible...”
– From: Innovation Excellence — Do We Need an Innovation Profession?
By Jeffrey Phillips, who is one of my co-authors to the 2011 book, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, edited by Paul Sloane, with a foreword by Henry Chesbrough. I co-wrote the chapter,...
“An imperative for innovators is the creation of value. Aligning yourself to...”
– From: Collaborative Innovation — The Shape of Things to Come – Size, Form & Mass in Innovation-capable Cultures
By Drew Marshall
“The bottom line is, the biggest hurdle for a community manager, social media...”
– From: TheFutureBuzz.com — Priorities: Curing Social Media Overload
By John Boitnott
This post is being shared in honor of Community Managers’ Day!
“Emotional attachment prompts some incredibly strong bonds, a host of clear...”
– From: Paul4innovating’s Blog — Those disruptive moments when you simply need to let go
By Paul Hobcraft
“To create Sabi, a McKinsey-trained former VC paired with all-star designer Yves...”
– From: FastCo.Design — 5 Innovation Lessons From A Breakthrough Brand Aimed At Aging Americans
By Cliff Kuang
Blogging Is Making A Comeback For Marketers →
Via tacanderson:
Despite the recent moves to integrate social media into search, social media is fleeting. Status updates flow like the river and are gone. To me, blogging (even on sites like Tumblr) gives more permanence to your thoughts and words. A blog allows you to build a platform and establish a presence in a way that status updates can’t. Of course the converse is also true. Blogging...
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Brainstorm Methods — Nominal and Reverse the Problem:
A Tutorial From Paul Sloane on How to Use These Creativity tools
Expert facilitator Paul Sloane shows you how to use the Nominal Method and Reverse the Problem to accelerate your idea generation.
Credit: Paul Sloane Copyright: Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane is Editor of the 2011 book published by Kogan Page, A Guide to Open Innovation and...
“When we’re creative, we feel we are living more fully than during the rest...”
– From: Psychology Today — The Creative Personality
Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.
By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, published on July 01, 1996 - last reviewed on June 13, 2011
“The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) declared ‘outstanding’ 2011 Christmas sales...”
– From: Cirrus-Connect.com — John Lewis Sales Prove Principles Can Pay
By Nicky Little
“A syndrome of selfishness, built on a series of half-truths, has taken hold of...”
– From: MIT Sloan Management Review — Beyond Selfishness
By Henry Mintzberg, Robert Simons and Kunal Basu
““Betterness: Economics for Humans” is a powerful call to arms for a...”
– From: Harvard Business Review / HBS Press Book — Betterness: Economics for Humans, by Umair Haque
Invisible People — Our Fellow Americans. They...
“How Would You Handle a Radical Idea?
It is Easy to Ridicule Concepts that Look...”
– From: Yahoo! Voices — voices.yahoo.com — How Would You Handle a Radical Idea?
By Paul Sloane
I’m honored to be a contributing author to a recently published book edited by Paul Sloane, A Guide to Open Innovation & Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, along with some of my...
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“By looking at the eight possible revenue models, writes Jump’s Ryan Baum,...”
– From: FastCo.Design — Want To Upend An Entire Industry? Change Its Revenue Stream
By Ryan Baum
“We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
“I’d just finished a workshop on Business Model Canvas about gaining clarity in...”
– From: Paul4innovating’s Blog — A Business Model Canvas Set to Explode
By Paul Hobcraft
“Entitlement is pervasive in American culture. The athletes and coaches who...”
– From: Harvard Business Review / Blogs — Battling Entitlement, the Innovation-Killer
By Whitney Johnson