Sun.Oct 23, 2016

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Innovation Needs Exploration

Digital Tonto

Without exploration, there can be no advancement. Related posts: We Need To Accelerate Innovation—Here’s How: A New Era Of Innovation. Innovation Needs To Shift From Disrupting Markets To. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to spend $200+ Billion for a Train Wreck

Mills-Scofield

Once upon a time, a paragon of American innovation lost its way. It embodied Einstein’s definition of insanity, spending over $200B for a train wreck… and they’re doing it again. The story starts in the last century and my part about 28 years ago. In the early 90’s at AT&T, I was on a ‘special project’ with some friends to design the next generation core domestic network.

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Open Innovation: Overcoming cognitive bias in innovation projects

Innovation Excellence

You’ve likely heard of the curse of knowledge or sometimes it is called the curse of the expert. It occurs when our knowledge leads us down predictable paths, likely not considering other possible solutions to problems but only those that are familiar to us. This is cognitive bias and it is the enemy of innovation.

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Innovation Misdirection

Innovation Excellence

Sometimes the fact you are keeping a trade secret is well known in the marketplace. Your product may work better than competitors’ products; you may have a price advantage; or others just cannot replicate your product. Competitors may be working hard to reverse engineer or replicate your secrets. If you want to protect your trade.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.