Take hope: innovators at work on aging, healthcare and education

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..

Keep the business edge: near-death and 12 year-olds

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..

Finding the words for new concepts

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..

BIF3 Collaborative Innovation Conference Notable Quotes

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..

Walter Mossberg and Jason Fried: Why are we stuck with bloated software crap like Outlook?

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..

Frans Johansson on innovation, diversity of teams, passion

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..

Giving marketing a heart transplant

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 Posted in Communities, Innovation, Language, Marketing trends, Research, Smart company stories | No Comments »

Kudos to Australians Kristin Hickey and Derek Leddie of The Leading Edge and David Jenkinson of Fosters Group for their ESOMAR award winning paper, "The Heart Transplant — Customers ... Read more..

BIF-2 Collaborative Innovation Summit Highlights

Friday, October 6th, 2006 Posted in Innovation | No Comments »

This week’s BIF-2 Collaborative Innovation Summit, put on by the Business Innovation Factory in Providence, RI, featured stories from some of the most innovative minds in the world – ... Read more..