Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 8, 2016

I stumbled upon a nice article that deals with a very important issue for any corporate innovator: how to communicate what you are doing, why you are doing it and why it matters to executives. The article was published in the MIT Sloan Management Review and is entitled When innovation meets the language of the corner office. The article notes that innovators often use different terminology when describing their work or tools (eg customer experience journey) and have different deliverables, proje

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Stephen Shapiro

AUGUST 8, 2016

[…] necessity is the mother of invention, then laziness is sometimes its father, says business author Stephen Shapiro. That productive laziness is probably best exemplified in San Francisco, where a slew of […].

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Be-novative

AUGUST 8, 2016

When I say hackathon, what is the first thing you imagine? Something like… If you have ever imagined one before, then most probably the first organised, motivational picture is closer to your first association for a hackathon. Surprisingly, we have seen several hackathons even in Silicon Valley that ended up in a total chaos with free beers and pizza slices topped with a few never implemented project plans.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2016

One way to deal with a common innovation strategy barrier – fear of change and new ideas – is to disguise new ideas as your team develops and implements them. Yes, you got that right. If your organization or other important audiences that will feel the impact of your new ideas truly fear change, it may be best to make your ideas appear less new, less frightening, and less like change than they might normally seem.

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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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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2016

Use World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21 (WCIW) to leverage your innovation skills, knowledge, tools, and attitudes. WCIW started in response to a 2001 Canadian newspaper headline to open people’s minds and hearts to the notion that everyone has the capacity to make a creative difference in their lives and and others’ It begins.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 8, 2016

A SIMPLE FORMULA AND SET OF TOOLS FOR FACING AND EMBRACING DISRUPTION AND RADICAL CHANGE. Technology, globalization, economic shifts, geopolitical shocks, and, yes, management thought leaders over the past 30 years have set in motion a continuous onslaught of radical, discontinuous change in the global business environment that will not abate anytime soon.

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Betterific

AUGUST 8, 2016

In this installment of “Brainstorming with an [innovation] expert” we invite Matt Nelson from Hyundai. Matt has quite the resume and an amazing story. He just finished up his role as the Innovation and Technology Planner at Hyundai and is now returning to the University of Michigan to get his masters in Design Science. He’s also extremely involved in the community – focusing his efforts on paving a path for Black Engineers as the National Chairperson for the National S

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Innovation Leader

AUGUST 8, 2016

Victoria Scarborough of Sherwin-Williams’ Global External Innovation Team, defines her mission as identifying outside “technology that would move the innovation needle.

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Michael Roberto

AUGUST 8, 2016

We've all faced this question in a job interview: "So, why exactly do you want to work for us?" The question seems very straightforward, yet it trips up many candidates. I'm shocked by how many times I've heard responses that indicate a lack of in-depth research about our organization. Doing your homework, though, is only the first step. You have to go much further to answer this question effectively.

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