Sun.Nov 13, 2016

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The Most Important Thing That Great Innovators Do Differently

Digital Tonto

Revolutions don’t begin with a slogan. They begin with a cause. Related posts: Great Companies Don’t Adapt, They Prepare. 6 Things Every Organization Needs To Innovate. How Lean Startup. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Two Kinds of Empathy for Successful Innovation

Innovation Excellence

If you unpack the stories of most successful innovations, you’ll find that a deep immersion into the user experience of a product or service is the key that often unlocks the potential of the concept. Call it ethnography. Call it primary research. Call it field research. Call it empathy.

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Rebooting Globalization

100%Open

How do you prove that an assumption is false? One way is to build upon it step by step and show that it leads to an obviously absurd conclusion. It’s a beautifully effective and counter-intuitive bit of logic known as reductio ad absurdum and is used throughout philosophy and mathematics all of the time. In the last few weeks I believe we have finally completed exactly one such type of proof.

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Innovation mantras from R&D

Innovation Excellence

Research and development is tightly coupled with product management and innovation. To learn how an R&D person thinks about innovation, I talked with Dana A. Oliver, who has 30 impressive years of experience in R&D groups. He now focuses on writing and coaching, after leaving Medtronic, the medical device company, where he was the Senior.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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The Wisdom Circles of San Miguel

Idea Champions

Every human being, no matter what path they walk, skip, hop, or jump is a fountainhead of wisdom -- a deep well of insights, brilliance, and lessons learned. This wisdom, however, is often buried beneath the flora and fauna of our daily lives and, because it is, the full value of what we know to be true often remains unexpressed. The good news? Our deepest wisdom is always available to us.