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Amidst all the bad financial news, you may have overlooked a column in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal by Innovation Guru Clayton Christensen. According to him, these times are actually good for innovators. Why would that be, since R & D budgets are...
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In Business Week’s Innovation supplement dated November 20, Steve LeVine offers a summary of innovation prizes for everything from space travel and hydrogen-fueled vehicles to faster airport checkpoints. Citing Peter Diamandis, who sponsored the X prize...
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One of the sacrosanct rules of brainstorming is that criticism isn’t allowed. Yet according to a new study from Berkeley psychology professor Charlan Nemeth and grad student Matthew Feinberg, enforcing that rule can lead to less creative sessions. The...
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The first week of the Design (and Innovation) Management Class I teach with Alladi Venkatesh and Raymond Pirouz, as always, reminds me that Design Thinking is at the heart of all innovation. It's not just about designing new products, or even new...
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A recent story in the Wall Street Journal has a nifty map which demonstrates that people with different—presumably inherent—character traits cluster in different states. Neurotic? Definitely hang out in the Northeast or the Mississippi Delta. Openness...
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For hard-driving business people, it's hard to imagine, but the best way to solve those knotty problems may just be to forget about it and get a good night’s sleep. According to research cited in Scientific American Mind this month, your brain keeps...
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Preparing for the class I teach with Alladi Venkatesh on Design and Innovation Management, I’ve been reading the Henry Dreyfuss classic, Designing for People, published in 1955. From the thirties to the sixties, he designed everything from flyswatters...
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Sunday’s New York Times had an article by G. Pascal Zachary titled “Inside Nairobi, The Next Palo Alto” . The author points out that most technological innovation is created either in wealthy countries or in China and India. Yet, the rest of the world...
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Over the last few years, functional MRI testing has given researchers the ability to see inside the brain in real time. Now, according to this month’s Scientific American Mind, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have used jazz pianists to...
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“The customer is the company. Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month – with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force, and no retail distribution. And it has never produced a flop.” The above title and quote is from the current...
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