Sat.Nov 18, 2017

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Three Wishes for the Corporate Innovator for 2018

Innovation Architecture

My dad loved both the creative and technical aspects of photography. He loved taking pictures. And, he loved developing the images. Both activities have within them a bit of art and science. When he passed I inherited the negatives. Over time I have been shuttling the negatives to our local camera shop. The technicians there digitize them. The earliest negatives, in black and white, lend themselves well to digitization, much more so than the color images.

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Let’s Not “Yada Yada” Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Most Seinfeld fans are familiar with the concept of “yada-yada-ing” sex, like when Elaine met a lawyer, went out to dinner, had the lobster bisque, went back to her place and yada, yada, yada… she never heard from him again.

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Understand What Lean Six Sigma Is Without Getting a Huge Headache

Idea Champions

Ten years ago, my company was a vendor to a Fortune 100 company devoted to SixSigma. So devoted, in fact, that they required all of their vendors to take a two-day day Six Sigma training. While I never liked thinking of myself as a "vendor", I took the course. My experience of it? Like taking a geometry test while doing my taxes in a DMV office. Yes, during those two days, I realized there were lots of useful tools to learn to make my business more effective.

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