Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Activating change, Communicating, Innovation, Leadership, Research, Smart company stories | 1 Comment »
Every year some of the most brilliant minds from business, science, art, technology, education and government come to the Business Innovation Factory’s BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit in Providence, RI for ... Read more..Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Activating change, Communicating, Innovation, Language, Leadership, Musings | 7 Comments »
Every year I take a class that scares the bejesus out of me. In doing so I always learn more than I thought possible and learn about things I didn't ... Read more..Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in Activating change, Musings | No Comments »
After reading the book "Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town," poet and creative coach Mark McGuinness wrote this great post about creative takeaways from David Bowie's ... Read more..Saturday, September 6th, 2008 Posted in Cool tools, Innovation, Musings | 1 Comment »
Mind mapping is an incredibly helpful way to brainstorm, solve problems and actively "doodle" to see possibilities. Raj Dash has a good post over at The Freelance Switch, ... Read more..Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Innovation | No Comments »
While the headlines are bleak and the politicians’ campaign promises bland, I was made hopeful a the BIF3 Innovation Summit that ways to address some of our most critical problems ... Read more..Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Innovation | 1 Comment »
At the BIF3 Innovation Summit Irving “Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president, Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM, suggested that the only way a big established company can reinvent itself is having a ... Read more..Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Communicating, Innovation, Language | No Comments »
One of the challenges in getting people to believe in a new business concept is having the right words to describe the concept. At the BIF3 Innovation Summit CEOs Robin ... Read more..Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in Innovation | No Comments »
Some interesting food for thought from the first day of today’s conference: “It’s important to study why bad ideas stay around so long…We need to build hunch-supporting environments and find ... Read more..Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in Innovation | No Comments »
That was Walt Mossberg’s opening question to 37 Signals founder Jason Fried at today’s BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Conference. “I’ve never seen a software company figure out how to deal with ... Read more..Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 Posted in Innovation | No Comments »
Frans Johansson, author of The Medici Effect, gave a thought-provoking and inspiring workshop today at the Business Innovation Factory. Takeaways: All new ideas are combinations of existing ideas (And the further apart ... Read more..