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In the latest McKinsey digital newsletter, Mark Marino muses that innovation is like a coral reef: nobody quite understands what causes reefs to form, but human actions can nurture or harm the process. Silicon Valley, he says, is an innovation reef, started...
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In Business Week’s July 27 issue, there’s a simple chart that tells a big story. Creative Beginnings in a Downturn shows that Hewlett Packard learned to buy game-changing companies in recessions, that Genetech leaned to use strategic partners when they...
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The Merage School hosted a Design Innovation Research Conference in November 2008. It was a great success judged by the quality of presenters and presentations, and the number of attendees both from academia and industry. Interested readers can now find...
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One of the principal tenets of innovation is that diverse groups have better ideas. And the opposite holds true: like-minded people have come up with such great ideas as the Edsel, thalidomide, launching the Challenger, the German invasion of the Soviet...
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Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba.com, runs one of the most successful business-to-business marketplaces in the world. He’s profiled under "Builders and Titans" in Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. His keys to success? “We had no money. We...
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Business Week’s Top 50 Best Performing Companies from the S&P 500, as you might expect, has some pretty sobering news. Because it’s figured on a three-year average, some of the companies that made the list are now going through layoffs, reduced earnings...
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In Business Week March 9 , there was a plea for President Obama to adopt an innovation agenda to help the country out of its current mess. I’m not sure about some of Kuczmarkski’s tax credit ideas, since I’m not an economist, but several of his other...
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Falling sales. Rising unemployment. The economic outlook. So what’s to laugh about? Well, according to Dacher Keltner, author of Born to be Good, now is exactly when you should be laughing. For one thing, it reduces stress and adds to your personal resilience...
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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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A recent article in Forbes titled “Transform Your Company For Growth” by Scott D. Anthony and Kevin Bolen of Innosight does a great job in describing the potential as well as the challenges in creating sweeping changes to an enterprise. Most corporate...
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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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I just returned from the World Innovation Forum in New York, where hundreds of business people and academics gathered to hear the experts in the field. MacArthur Genius Award winner Amory Lovins told us how to reduce reliance on oil through eliminating...
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