Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

So in the past week or so we have seen the announcement that Capgemini has acquired Fahrenheit 212 , at present for an undisclosed sum, now that one was a real surprise. I have a friend when he is presented with something that stops him and makes him really have to think he would say “intriguing”. This joining forces is one of those ‘intriguing” moments for me.

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Braden Kelley

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I was lucky enough to (a) get Tanveer Nasser to contribute some thought leadership to my new book Charting Change (launching tomorrow!) and (b) to be a guest recently on his leadership podcast.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Many people visit the Brainzooming website looking for ideas on making strategic planning fun. As I always say, those searches are no surprise. I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. Part of making strategic planning fun involves fun exercises , which we continue to create and share here.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

How do enterprises use collaboration as a tool for innovation? Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise is a new book by Peter Cook.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Stanford Professor Justin Berg has conducted some interesting research on people's ability to evaluate creative ideas. He asked over 300 circus professionals to forecast how popular a series of circus acts would be with audiences. He then tracked their actual popularity with more than 13,000 circus audience members. What did Berg find? The people who actually created the new circus acts are not very good predictors of their success with audiences.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A recent study finds that companies are not working effectively with universities. Are they missing out on potential innovations?

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Lesson 1: Right Action, Right Time “At any given point in time, there are only a few key actions that matter. Focus on those and ignore the rest” I looked at my watch, and it was nearly 9’o’clock. I was meeting Bijoy Goswami (a friend and mentor) at a local coffee shop in Austin, TX, for advice. It was a cold January morning in 2006 — exactly a year since I had bootstrapped my company.

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