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What Chess World Champions Can Teach Us About Innovation
When Magnus Carlsen arrived with his new disruptive strategy based on a patient positional style that eschews openings, one could say he had disrupted other player’s strategies... Continue reading →
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To Reduce Health Care Costs Treat it like Pollution
My suggestion is to look for appropriate solutions by considering how we have reached society's goals in other contexts, e.g., pollution control. Continue reading →
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To Succeed? We all need to innovate our jobs away – Part 1
Is the 'shared economy' innovating skilled jobs our of existence via the crowd? Continue reading →
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To Succeed? We all need to innovate our jobs away – Part 2
Part 2 of this two part series follows up on unanswered concerns and looks to education as the key. Continue reading →
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What If We Applied Open Innovation to Government Funded Lobbying?
Lobbying via crowdsourcing? Giving voice to the voiceless? Open innovation shows us the innovative power of those who don't have the loudest voice, so by giving certain poorly represented groups a...
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Can we learn from our successes? Researchers say yes!
A recent review in the journal Psychology, which reviewed results from behavioral economics, social psychology and neuroscience, points out how important success can be to your learning. We'll look at...
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Game Changing Innovations are Right in Front of You
Your greatest innovation opportunity may be right in front of you. The problem is you don’t see it. Evan Shellshear dives into reasons why companies most often don't see the greatest opportunity lying...
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Are Your Innovations Safe?
Today’s pace of life can make you feel like you are strapped to the top of rocket. With more and more screaming for your attention, we barely have time to send that long forgotten birthday card, let...
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Innovation’s Missing Vitamin C
From Steve Jobs to Elon Musk, we seem to want to simplify the innovation process down to a single person. In the process we forget innovation’s missing vitamin C – collaboration. Continue reading →
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A Successful Innovation? A Question of Scale
For most startups, the biggest question haunting them today is not money but scale. According to Forbes magazine, the number one cause of startup death is premature scaling. Continue reading →
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Are All Your Ideas Worth Nothing?
There are many reasons why people say ideas are worthless...Take two companies with a similar idea, Google and AltaVista, one is the multibillion dollar envy of the tech world, the other a broke, wound...
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Is Low Risk Innovation even Possible?
Around 4% of innovation initiatives achieve their internally defined success criteria. Even worse, only 12% of research and development projects even return their capital cost! Continue reading →
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How Failure Leads to Disruptive Success
Our problem is one faced by everyone from lone entrepreneurs to global corporations. Things go wrong, perfected plans fall apart and momentum grinds to a halt. We were not alone. But everywhere we...
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