Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack I was privileged to attend one of the first Theory U; Presencing Leadership for Profound Innovation and Change Workshops presented by the Sloane School of Management, in Boston in 2008. This means that I have … Continue reading →

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 27, 2020

During the recession that started in the Finance sector in 2008, Salesforce.com boomed by using a new business model, software as a service. Many successful start-ups began during recessions. Habits change. Consumers adopt new practices. This all means opportunity for the nimble. A famous example occurred in the 1920s.

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InnovationManagement

MARCH 19, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be an international economic crisis, with ramifications for all industries and markets, similar to the crisis of 2008. A cross-border economic crisis affects companies large and small, trying an organization's management and its employees.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 9, 2023

Research from 2008 has indicated that it is likely a combination of conscious and motivational processes (wanting to present ourselves in the best light) which result in people justifying their responsibility for desirable outcomes, but not undesirable outcomes.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 16, 2008

The “IDEA Conference&# :[link] took place in Chicago on October 7-9 at the Harold Washington Library Center. The speakers pushed the boundaries of what it means to design complex information spaces of all kinds. We can all expand our practice by absorbing their experiences and ideas.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 17, 2021

Limb CJ, Braun AR (2008) Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation. The researchers were then able to compare the brain activation patterns between the two styles of performing, and statistically analyse the brain images to find out what had changed. The results were fascinating.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 27, 2022

Since then, the results have been backed up by further research in 1998 , 2008 , and 2019. Interestingly, her research also showed that when the same people were told that they would be rewarded for their creative output before they did it, the resulting works were judged to be less creative than when people did it for intrinsic pleasure.

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Articles from GroundControl

APRIL 1, 2021

Since 2008 Esther and I have helped around 250 startups through their journey from a great business idea to a validated business model. We’ve helped Accelerators like Rockstart and Startup Bootcamp, but also bootstrapped startups and VC funds. We started to see patterns.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 13, 2020

On Halloween day 2008, a mysterious paper entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System appeared on a cryptography mailing list. Its author, Satoshi Nakamoto, was a pseudonym and, to this day, no one is absolutely sure of his or her true identity. Nevertheless, the revolution the paper unleashed was all too real.

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InnovationManagement

MARCH 19, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be an international economic crisis, with ramifications for all industries and markets, similar to the crisis of 2008. A cross-border economic crisis affects companies large and small, challenging an organization's management and its employees.

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Cris Beswick

JUNE 2, 2020

The crash of 2008 was the last catalyst for step-change. In the middle of any crisis, the leadership dilemma is always how to continue shaping the future while balancing the short-term need to navigate the current storm. Although it can’t be compared in the same light, we think the current COVID-19 pandemic will be the … Continued.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 28, 2019

Not too many people seem to remember the stock market crash of 2008, but of course that was a decade ago. The market crashed in 2008 and reached the same point as the top of the market a few years later. Volatility seems like something we've only just discovered. Notice that much change reverses itself or corrects over time.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 14, 2008

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. " RU: Last question, and this is a doozy: Over the course of 2008, you and I have become “friends&# —at least I’d say that, and I believe you’ve said that.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2017

The concept was popularised in the influential book, Nudge, by economists, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, published in 2008. Showing peer reviews e.g. for companies, products, hotels or restaurants.

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Phil McKinney

MAY 8, 2023

At two 11-foot-wide interactive touch walls, visitors were encouraged to explore dozens of important news events and viral videos, including the first Twitter reports of the 2008 China earthquake and the Facebook posts that fueled the Egyptian revolution in 2011.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Copyright 2008, Mike Brown. Help me also to use your talents to bring a creative spark and new possibilities to your world, living out my call to be an integral part of your creative force.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Through my 2008-10 doctoral research, I found that the biggest problem that non-innovative companies have is lack of trust. In fact, whenever I was invited to speak to a company about their innovation needs, it didn’t take more than 20 minutes and 16 questions to find that they don’t have an innovation problem, they have.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A brief example of an organization that capitalized on the 2008 recession in remarkable ways is Lego. As a result, what is left behind is the unpredictable that you must be agile in dealing with, such as a pandemic shutting the world down. Lego: An Exponential Thinker in Agility and Anticipation.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

When I conducted my doctoral research between 2008 and 2010, I found that autonomy was the strongest single factor that companies and leaders control, that would positively affect employee creativity, and therefore company innovation.

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Cascade Strategy

MARCH 30, 2021

Next thing you know, the recession in 2008 rolls around and your revenue gets cut in half… Is your thorough strategic plan with all its detailed projects and goals still viable? The thing is, there isn’t always a definitive solution, rather, some problems require continuous management.

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Xplaner

MAY 21, 2008

I want to go to this conference. Not sure I can - travel and expense freezes all over the place. It is 100% relevant to my job - sigh!! Authored by gminks. Hosted by Edublogs.

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InnovationManagement

JUNE 25, 2019

In 2008, Dave Carroll, a Canadian guitarist and songwriter, flew with United Airlines from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Omaha, Nebraska with a stop at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. During the layover at O’Hare a fellow passenger saw the baggage handlers throwing baggage including Carroll’s precious guitar.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 28, 2008

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As Event Coordinator for IDEA , I fill a variety of roles, including the Interviewer of IDEA Presenters (which I proudly share with Liz Danzico).

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Idea to Value

APRIL 28, 2017

In “ The Creativity Crisis (2011) ” I reported that American creativity declined from the 1990s to 2008. Since 2008, my research reveals that the Creativity Crisis has grown worse. Results of The 2017 Creativity Crisis Study. In addition, the results also reveal that the youngest age groups (5 and 6-year-olds) suffered the greatest.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As Event Coordinator for IDEA , I fill a variety of roles, including the Interviewer of IDEA Presenters (which I proudly share with Liz Danzico).

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100%Open

JULY 9, 2021

We were, after all, founded during the notorious 2008 financial crash, and we’re still standing strong 14 years later, still preaching the gospel of open innovation. This month we want to give you a similar roadmap to resilience, and we’ve put together a few sub-£10k ideas you can begin with right away.

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Phil McKinney

AUGUST 10, 2023

Examples of Avoiding Groupthink During the Great Recession in 2008, an analysis conducted by EY on nearly 300 publicly listed technology companies revealed an interesting trend. It is also important for leaders to set aside time for reflection and make sure they are taking a step back from their team's day-to-day operations.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 31, 2019

Eventually in 2008, Robert Knapper was convicted of the killing of Rachel Nickell. There was very little evidence that he had had anything to do with the crime but the police became convinced that he was the murderer and they laid an elaborate ‘honey pot’ plan to encourage him to confess.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I got some great posts for September's version of the Working/Learning Carniva l. I'd hoped to have my own post ready to go by today, but that apparently will not be happening.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2019

The British cycling team used incremental improvements to go from also-rans to winning seven of ten gold medals in the 2008 Olympics. Japanese car manufacturers used principles of continuous improvement in the second half of the twentieth century to build up enormous cash reserves on top of strong reputations for quality.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Little wonder then that Bloomberg reported that 150 of the USA largest tech firms were sued 226 times for age discrimination from 2008 to 2015. In 2007 at age 22 Mark Zuckerberg profoundly stated, ‘Younger people are just smarter. Why are most chess masters under 30?’.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Lufthansa Systems, IT services provider in the airline industry with over 300 airline customers, initiated an Intrapreneurs program named Invent IT in 2007-2008.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

Since launching the program in 2008 with a simple point-earning mechanism, over time the company has added a variety of different features, from gamification and personalized offers to mobile ordering and even NFTs. Another example of incremental service innovation is the Starbucks Rewards Program.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Even if you’re trying to find one, the connections among Elliott Malkin ’s body of work are hard to see. Part family history, part science project, part home-movie, his projects span genres that, initially, seem incidental.

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Idea to Value

MAY 9, 2022

In the 100m butterfly in 2008 in Beijing, Phelps beat Serbia’s Milorad Cavic by one one-hundredths of a second. For example, US swimmer and winner of 23 Olympic gold medals Michael Phelps, was born with a body almost perfectly genetically suited for swimming, with massively long arms and a torso that acts like a surfboard.

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Xplaner

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day , and the topic is fighting poverty. One of my colleagues at EMC has already posted his Blog Action post (go see Steve Todd’s post). I thought I would just tell my story. I grew up in Northwest Florida.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For example, a 2008 international study by CPP Global (the publisher of the Myers-Briggs Assessment) defined conflict as “any workplace disagreement that disrupts the flow of work.” In addition, CPP’s 2008 study found that surveyed employees in nine countries averaged a little over two hours every week dealing with conflict.

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