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Oct 9, 2014
Disciplining the Sharing Economy
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Aug 5, 2014
Disaster tends to breed a touch of schadenfreude in all of us. As a new generation of Gorden Gecko’s burn under the blowtorch of angry nations and world leaders brace themselves for the bill from mass bailouts – it’s easy to answer the question ‘what is the future of finance?’, by simply asking another; ‘is there a future for finance?’. As it happens, the answer to that question is yes, but not as you knew it. How the consumer experience of finance is set to change is something that I have been thinking about lately for some of my clients....
Aug 3, 2014
Changes Mundane Meetings into Moments of Impact
Innovation Strategist and Design Thinker Lisa Kay Solomon Changes Mundane Meetings into Moments of Impact…
Aug 2, 2014
Part 1 … If you’re a professional manager, here’s a question for you: What’s the obstinate, knotty management problem you’re working to solve—the one that bedevils your organization, that lies beyond the boundaries of best practice, and has no obvious solution? In other words, are you working on anything that might advance the state of the art in a fundamental way? Are you aiming to fundamentally improve the technology we use to mobilize human resources to productive ends—that is, the technology of management? If no, why not? Geneticists hope to dramatically improve human health—by untangling the complexities of the genome....
Aug 2, 2014
One Astronaut’s Wish for the Holidays
From orbit, the Earth is so beautiful. But for many who live on our planet, life is a terrible struggle with hunger, thirst, and disease. When we look at the Earth from space we are faced with a sobering contradiction. On the one hand, we see the indescribable beauty of the planet we have been given. On the other hand, we know that millions of people on it do not have access to clean water, go to bed hungry at night, and die from preventable and curable diseases. It is truly moving to look at the Earth from space. And...
Aug 2, 2014
Originality Is Not All That Original
What do William Shakespeare and Led Zeppelin have in common? They both pinched much of their material from artists that came before them. The Bard, who added a few thousand original words to the English language and gave us our most unique phrases, was unabashed in his thievery of complete tracts from well-known poets and playwrights of his day. Most of his plays recycle stories from history and other literary works, and his stylistic flourishes are inspired by things that his contemporaries were already doing. Now it appears that Led Zeppelin, those icons of originality for a generation in motion,...
Aug 2, 2014
Innovation Starts In Dark Places
There is a dark, untold back story of innovation that may disturb you: many of the earliest forms of the world’s biggest technological advancements were pioneered by bad people in morally corrupt contexts. The most radical innovation in video streaming started in the pornography industry. The most sophisticated uses of messaging technologies started with drug traffickers and terrorists. Counterfeiters have pimped digital technologies to such an advanced state that governments are rethinking the use of paper-based currencies. Why does innovation often start in dark places? When you’re working in the fringes, the normal risks and rewards associated with radical change...
Jan 20, 2014
How Steve Jobs Helped Mark Thompson Re-define “Winning.”
BigSpeak’s Mark Thompson shares the innovation secret Steve Jobs taught him in this keynote video.…
Jul 16, 2013
The Dean of Innovation Shows You How It’s Done
How do you jumpstart the innovation process and get your organization thinking creatively? University of Michigan professor Jeff DeGraff describes how his team at the…