Tag: Innovation

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4 Benefits to Collaborating with Customers

– Innovation, we can all agree, covers a wide range of sins. It can be incremental...
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The Biggest Innovation Killer: Inertia

– To change things, to innovate, we need to do one thing: stop. Stop to fix...
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How YOU Can Drive Savings From Procurement/Contracts Data!

– Strategic sourcing is focused on reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while also delivering...
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Leadership Lessons From Roberta Flack

– It was an unexpected pleasure to be invited to interview Roberta Flack recently, still performing...
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IMPACT: Innovative Mini-Series on Science and Disruptive Technology

– IMPACT is a filmed series featuring a rotating panel of experts, researchers and business aficionados...
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The Ancillary and Unexpected Consequences of Innovation

– The light bulb did not replace the candle. It replaced going to bed early. The...
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Why You Can’t Find Talent

– She could probably get a Bengal tiger to Mars if you asked her to*.  Give her five...
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The Relevance of Total Design

– In 1970, a forty-year-old engineer left his role as the Chief Designer at the English...
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How to Stay on Top of Emerging Trends

– Why do successful companies fail? They miss the future. But, companies don’t fail because they...
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Want to Innovate? First Learn What Your Team Actually Does!

– If we don’t understand what our employees really do and how they do it any...
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Is Corporate Social Responsibility the End or the Beginning of a Disruptive Force for Large Corporations?

– Schumpeter’s notion of ’creative destruction denotes how something new replaces the old by allowing for...
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Are You Capturing the Value of Your Innovation?

– Innovation, value and pricing are inseparable. They are part of a dynamic system to create...
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Are You an Elite Leader?

– A simple definition of elite leadership can be hard to pin down, but we all...
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Ask Not What Your Employees Can Do for You

– “Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” – Peter Drucker   How...
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4 Tips for Engaging the Crowd

– There are many different ways to take crowd information and turn it into actionable data...
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Innovation Lessons from Prince

– I am a great admirer of the artist Prince, both for his musicology, but also...
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Innovation and Thinking Beyond the Box

– Whether as small business owners, employers or just workers in general, we’d like to believe...
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The Blind Spot Phenomenon in Innovation and How to Discover It

– Background The cumulative creative behaviors of senior leadership teams offer a strong indicator of whether...
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Innovation for Middle-Managers in Large Corporations: 101

– I am educated as a software engineer and for 20 years I have worked in...
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Bump Your Thinking Into a New World For New Solutions

– A few blocks from the Santa Monica Pier, where Route 66 meets the Pacific, I...

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