Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2022

GUEST POST from Greg Satell It’s hard to find anyone who wouldn’t agree that Microsoft’s 2001 antitrust case was a disaster for the company.

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Innocentive

DECEMBER 19, 2017

When InnoCentive launched in 2001, it was in a context very different from today. Innovation Insights

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 31, 2019

I graduated from college in 2001. David Bruel – Marketing, as we learned it, is dead. We were Kings. If you wanted to learn Marketing at that time, you had two options: join a consultancy firm or work in FMCG, ideally in the food industry. I had the privilege to be selected by one. marketing Mad Men

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Beyond the Obvious

AUGUST 10, 2018

I started writing the Killer Questions when I was in my short-lived “retirement” early in 2001. As I relaxed in the Virginian countryside, my mind started to flash back to various experiences I’d had during my working life. Over the course of the preceding twenty years I’d seen dozens of highly innovative products and ideas […]. Book Excerpts Killer Questions card deck Cards killer innovations card deck

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 10, 2022

In 2001, summarising years of seeing this activity across experiments, Marcus Raichle coined these active regions as the brain’s default mode network. What happens in your brain when you are not actively thinking about anything?

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Arthur C Clarke’s book, 2001 : A Space Odyssey, published in 1968 envisioned ‘newspads’ which astronauts used to find out what was going on. We tend to think that it is difficult to predict the future because it is. Who forecast 9/11 or Covid?

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Beyond the Obvious

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In 2001 Apple’s sales figures were in decline. So, how do you determine where you, as an individual or a business, will be in five years? You can’t say where exactly you’re going because you can’t predict what’s going to happen in the world. However, you can challenge yourself to change. The company had yet […]. Book Book Excerpts Apple assisted living evolve gray wave iPad iPhone iPod nursing homes prediction value chain

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The Future Shapers

MARCH 24, 2020

Clarke’s and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. For anyone of my generation, the concept of artificial intelligence is viscerally embodied in the jet-black camera lens, with the red-iris-yellow-lens eye, of the sentient computer HAL 9000 in Arthur C.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 2, 2020

In 2001 two musicians, Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tambrello, wanted to collaborate on some new compositions. Gibbard and Tamborello. The problem was that they lived hundreds of miles apart at opposite ends of America’s west coast.

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Beyond the Obvious

JUNE 29, 2018

I started collecting the Killer Questions when I was in my short-lived “retirement” early in 2001. As I relaxed in the Virginian countryside, my mind started to flash back to various experiences I’d had during my working life. Over the course of the preceding twenty years I’d seen dozens of highly innovative products and ideas come […]. Book Excerpts building Killer Question Killer Questions testing

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 17, 2018

From about the mid-nineties through 2001, the landscape was littered with crazy speculation, business plans scratched out on cocktail napkins, and venture capital being pushed to where it never should have been. The dotcom boom never really went away. The bursting of the dotcom bubble didn’t put an end to dotcoms. It put an end. Digital Growth demographics dotcoms Hotels internet Startup taxes

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Wellspring

AUGUST 30, 2017

Since 2001, 52% of the Fortune 500 has disappeared. Every organization and large company faces an existential threat from upstart competitors, changing consumer preferences, and emerging technologies. Furthermore, since 1955, the average lifespan of the Fortune 500 company has decreased from 75 to 15 years. Disruption is no longer an 'if' but a 'when

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 11, 2022

Overview : Since 2001, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has drawn on outside scientists, academics, engineers, and others to guide the President on effective policy for boosting innovation and scientific advancement in America.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

According to an analysis of hundreds of research papers in 2001 , the researchers came to the conclusion that our brain has evolved to be more attuned and focused on negative potential events than positive ones.

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Acuvate

MAY 29, 2020

Since its launch in 2001, SharePoint has undergone significant transformations and upgrades and so did the intranets based on it.

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Innocentive

AUGUST 24, 2016

InnoCentive became an official entity in 2001 and during the intervening fifteen years has posted over 2,000 Challenges and awarded nearly $20million. Starting as a brainwave in 1998, InnoCentive spent three years being scoped, explored and tested whilst within the walls of pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001 as a web-based, free encyclopaedia. In the 1930s there were 2000 salesmen in the USA knocking on doors and selling sets of Encyclopedia Britannica. They were selling a highly regarded product and were on handsome commissions. By 2000 the set comprised 32 volumes of carefully researched entries provided by 100 full time editors and 4000 contributors.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 12, 2022

Timothy McVeigh was executed on June 11, 2001. I first became fascinated with coincidences when I learned that both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same July 4, 50 years after the ratification of the Declaration of Independence.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2016

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. Use World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21 (WCIW) to leverage your innovation skills, knowledge, tools, and attitudes.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2017

When scientists decoded the human genome in 2001, they found something astounding. While our DNA provides the blueprint for everything about us—from how we develop in the womb to eye color and personality traits—it takes only 20,000 genes to do so, less than one fifth of what had previously been thought. What was even more mindblowing. Innovation Leadership Apple DNA facebook Genetics human genome project Mark Zuckerberg research Science xerox

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IdeaScale

MAY 12, 2021

And until 2001, that was it. When Apple did debut a new product in October 2001, it was completely outside those categories as well: It was the iPod, a personal music player that worked with Macs.

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Linda Bernardi

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

September 2015 – In 2001, when I built a start-up in the then-new field of RFID technology, I was often fascinated by the responses in interviews I would get from potential new hires. I would say, “Tell me what you can do,” and they would answer, “What do you want me to do?” I quickly […]. Disruption Enterprise Leadership Washington Post

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Kodak entered the digital camera market late but by 2001 they were number 2 in the USA behind Sony. Between 1982 and 2001 Kodak spent more than $20 billion on R&D averaging about 6% of revenues. Business commentators and writers commonly quote Kodak as an example of a company that was destroyed by disruptive innovation.

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Rocketspace

MAY 31, 2017

In 2001, Borders outsourced its online book-selling to Amazon. In 2000, Blockbuster passed on the option to acquire Netflix for $50 million. Ten years later, Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy protection, and Netflix's market cap surpassed $35 billion. Similarly, 10 years later, Borders filed for bankruptcy protection. So what went wrong?

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In 2001 Dr. Pronovost borrowed a concept from the aviation industry: a checklist, the kind that pilots use to clear their planes for takeoff. Imagine you gave your fiancée an engagement ring that cost over $10,000.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

First launched in October 2001, Apple ‘s portable music device has revolutionised how we all listen to and download music. After all, the first portable MP3 players hit the market in 1998 and by 2001 there were over 50 different models available through which you could download and play music from your computer. This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001.

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Michael Roberto

MARCH 18, 2022

2001, Rozin and Royzman 2001). Source: capital.com Is your organization's resource allocation process biased against funding original ideas or novel projects? Jacqueline Lane and her colleagues published a fascinating paper in Management Science in 2020.

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IdeaScale

JULY 27, 2017

How did Napster, which enjoyed a brief moment of popularity in 2001, back when broadband was limited mostly to colleges, kill a $14 billion industry? Innovation is all about the ability to see clearly. A lack of clarity can be deadly to companies in any number of ways, but one of the most deadly is how it can choke off innovation. Here are a few case studies and what organizations can learn from them. Kodak. Kodak was once the most powerful company in photography.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 18, 2021

So it seemingly made sense, in 2001, to create a second football league to offer people more football, differentiating itself from the NFL with different rules, scantier clad cheerleaders, and edgy names and logos.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 1, 2021

Shark Tank has been around in some form or another since 2001, with the Japanese series “Money Tigers.” Yet the basic concept is simple: entrepreneurs pitch their idea to a panel of investors, who will pick their idea apart before deciding whether or not to invest.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2017

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp joined in 2001 and was promoted to CEO three years later at the age of 36. Lego is now revered as one of the most innovative and successful companies in the world. But in 2003 the company was $800m in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. The turn around in its fortunes has been spectacular. It is currently rated the number one toy company in the world and the world’s most powerful brand. There are many books and studies describing the company’s approach.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 12, 2018

McLean died in New York in 2001. McLean in 1957. Containerization was a massively important innovation which powered the expansion of global trade but it was a difficult idea to implement. Before containerization, goods were physically manhandled as break bulk cargo. At the factory or warehouse goods were loaded onto a truck, driven to a port and then offloaded to await the next suitable ship.

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The Future Shapers

JANUARY 27, 2020

Arie is one of the co-authors of the Agile Manifesto that was written by 17 independent thinkers in February of 2001 at a ski resort in Utah, USA. Since that meeting in 2001, Agile ways of working have come a long way, and so has the field of innovation. The birth of the manifesto.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The term agile was coined in the information technology (IT) field in 2001 and was used to refer to a group of methodologies. Companies often have three levels in the management hierarchy: frontline, mid-level, and senior-level leadership.

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Tim Kastelle

JUNE 2, 2018

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. Note: this was originally posted on Harvard Business Review Blogs , with terrific editing by Sarah Green Carmichael. Maybe you’ve heard the old cliché – if you’ve got “too many chiefs,” your initiative will fail. Every time I hear it, I wonder, “Why can’t everyone be a chief?”.

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Game-Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Up until then it never occurred to me to ask who created these characters; that changed when the first Spider-Man movie came out in 2001. Illustration by Christian Laborin. We lost a great one! Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-Man, The Hulk, Fantastic 4, X-Men and other super-heroes died yesterday. He leaves a legacy of inspiration behind that will keep inspiring many more generations.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

In 2001, business writer Jim Collins published his touchstone book “Good to Great” and brought the Hedgehog and the Fox concept to the business world. Sometimes, lasting innovation requires being slow, quiet and even a little bit boring. By Upboard. Every single business is unique in one way or another. Businesses vary greatly depending on the products that they provide, the business models they employ and the style of service they give to their customers.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The company most notably clung to its cash cow of a camera and watched sales decline until its bankruptcy in 2001– years before camera phones ever emerged.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

On April 17, 2001, he made what became an infamous comment during a conference call with financial analysts. ‘Someone told me that I am poor at taking on board criticism so I quickly pointed out they were wrong.’ This little witticism is at the core of many a corporate disaster. Martin Luther.

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 28, 2020

1 spot in digital camera sales as recently as 2001. You may have heard that we are living in the Age of Customer Experience. Gartner projected that 89 percent of companies compete primarily on customer experience. You might ask why on Earth anyone would say, “Don’t listen to your customers!” when customer opinions matter the most. Because your customers can’t tell you what they need. Listening to them will mislead you.

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Planbox

AUGUST 31, 2021

In 2001, the Agile movement suggested a new way of approaching that work more efficiently. This article originally appeared on Forbes. In the late 1990s, as the Age of the Customer was in full bloom, it was clear that the old ways of working were no longer going to cut it.

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100%Open

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Clarke made one bizarrely accurate prediction as two astronauts in the movie 2001 can be seen reading a newspaper on something that looks suspiciously like an iPad, that he calls a Newspad.

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Xplaner

JUNE 2, 2015

In 2001 XPLANE created an infographic visualizing the e-Business ecosystem which was one of the most downloaded things on their site. I’m still proud of this diagram and it is still valid today. Download the e-Business Ecosystem (PDF

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