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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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Why on earth is this fellow driving on the highway with a metal helmet blocking his view? Why is mythology important to the launch of the world’s least expensive car? What do consumers mean by “green” behavior? What do different family members want from...
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A front page article in the November 19th issue of the Wall Street Journal highlights a very unusual way that two leading firms are forcing innovation. They’ve switched employees. For Google, famous for its creative culture, the upside is that they might...
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As the financial crisis has taken over the news cycle, it’s very hard to focus on innovation. Yet, As Janet Rae-Dupree points out in her New York Times article Sunday, this is precisely the time when innovation is most important. She cites Howard Lieberman...
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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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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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