January 2012
52 posts
NASDAQ on Tumblr: To what extent is innovation... →
nasdaq:
A new post on Fast Co. Design pushes back against the notion of innovation as impossible to control without stifling. As part of a larger conversation around the value of innovation consultants, the author argues:
just as every organization is different, there is no single model for how a…
Must-Follow Blogs for Everyday Innovation
amexopenforum:
Plenty of blogs devoted to innovation promise to help your company become more innovative. Some focus on the academics and theory of innovation and some are written by entrepreneurs who have been there. Here are our favorites.
Game Changer
IdeaCouture
Noodleplay
Innovation Playground
Want to know why? Read the full article here.
Add HSM America’s Inspire Blog here:...
NASDAQ on Tumblr: Women at Davos →
nasdaq:
When you gather as many high-profile individuals as Davos does, it’s not surprising that the subject of leadership itself would come up. The Guardian has a nice profile of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s attempts to bring more women into the upper echelons of both the tech business and the wider…
Be a Non-Conformist. Follow Your Passion. Period.
“You can make a difference if you put your passions to work in a way that builds a better life for you, your business and your community. Success Built to Last shows you how.” —Steve Forbes, Editor in Chief, Forbes Magazine
Mark Thompson co-wrote “Success Built to Last,” was Charles Schwab’s former Chief Customer Experience Officer and is cofounder & CEO of Richard ...
“Wherever I see people doing something the way it’s always been done, the way...”
– http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mark_cuban_2.html (via thebusinesscorners)
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Bold Innovation, Sundance Style
Focus Forward is an unprecedented new series of 30 three-minute stories about innovative people who are reshaping the world through act or invention, directed by the world’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers.
You’ll need to make an end-to-end story about people or organizations whose innovative efforts in medicine, computer science, robotics, engineering, green energy, or...
“A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell...”
– Scott Cook (via tksween)
Crowdsourcing, Gamifying Science ›› →
dandersxon:
Another great example of the use of gamification, as well as crowdsourcing, in solving complex scientific problems. This is a remarkable and thought provoking change of approach.
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Start-Up Innovation Leads to Increased...
This high-tech mouth guard, developed by tech start-up X2Impact, will save athletes’ lives with its ability to measure head trauma. Football Injuries: Measuring the Blow, appearing in Bloomberg Businessweek, will show you how.
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“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire...”
– Steve Jobs (via shaneguiter)
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“But the media is actually like a triathlon, with three different events: people...”
– Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators by Clay Shirky (via lynnieosu)
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How should China solve its innovation dilemma?
See: Suggestions for academic reform from Erica Birmingham.
via WBFNY 2011 “Unplugged” session speaker Luke Williams
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“The long run of economic history shows that irrational pessimism is wrong just...”
– From a book we just read — Bust: Greece, The Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis by Matthew Lynn
Lynn goes on to detail the innovations — from Edison’s lightbulb to the personal computing industry created by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs — that were forged during hard economic...
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Enough with the tech pessimism
tatewatkins:
For me, it started with the question, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory… . what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in...
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““The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.”
When we’re depressed,...”
– Reality is Broken: Why games make us better and how they can change the world by Jane McGonigal (via peekadora)
Perfect & inspiring quote for a new year.
FYI Jane McGonigal will be speaking at World Innovation Forum — June 20th & 21st in New York City.
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“We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and...”
– —Clay Shirky
This June in NYC — Clay Shirky will be speaking at World Innovation Forum 2012
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“You don’t add innovation to a company culture, you get out of its way.”
– Adrian Cockcroft, How Netflix gets out of the way of innovation [via @rit] (via wka)
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GHST & Innovation: If uncertainty rears its head... →
ghst-innovation:
With all the reasons to be pessimistic about the state of economic and geopolitical affairs today, it’s sometimes helpful to balance with reasons to be optimistic. Mainstream media never fails to remind us of the reasons to be pessimistic, such as:
Recession in Europe.
Anemic growth in the U.S.
