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InnovationCamp
April 22, 2008
Think BarCamp for innovation. Few rules. No titles. No hierarchy. Just people exchanging ideas, solutions, and possibilities around innovation: business innovation, social/cultural innovation, environmental innovation, whatever...
Welcome to InnovationCamp! We invite all to attend, both those in the cowork/collab community and our good friends who live and work at BigCo. We all [...]
Innovation Scores Again
April 16, 2008
A few months back, BusinessWeek introduced the S&P/BusinessWeek Global Innovation Index made up of the companies in their The World's Most Innovative Companies list. According to Bruce Nussbaum, over the last twelve months the Global Innovation Index outperformed both the S&P 500 Index and the S&P Global 100 Index.
This is hugely significant. AS A.G. [...]
Talent Is
April 15, 2008
What is talent? A simple question to be sure, but answers to this question vary widely.
For many (old school) managers, talent still refers to fresh crops of MBAs graduating from top B-schools, you know, the same schools that make Business Week's annual list every year. But what, exactly, is it that makes these graduates talented?
They are very [...]
The Innovation Acid Test
April 14, 2008
A quick update from Butcher and Bandit...
Our various writings here over the past few months have ranged rather widely. Without initially intending to do so, we have become fascinated with and champions of the wonderful world of coworking. This is a community that we love and that we eagerly embrace.
Prior to our encounter with coworking, we [...]
Note to Self… OLPC, My Starbucks Idea, NASA, Edison, Archimedes
March 24, 2008
Yves Béhar of Fuseproject pulls a 2008 Brit Insurance Design Award for his rugged, low-power laptop design for the One Laptop per Child project. I saw the laptop during a session at SXSW (pictures below). It (and the purpose it serves) rocks!
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Starbucks got into crowdsourcing (share/vote/discuss/see) with My [...]
Aquifer Design & Co-Innovation
March 20, 2008
A brief report from the other side of our business card: Aquifer Design.
Earlier today I was reading through the Innovation Channel at BusinessWeek.com, and I came across 2 different articles about open-innovation (Building Expertise Through Collective Innovation, and A Ripe Time for Open Innovation). Both articles address what we call co-innovation: That is, getting people from different design [...]
IDEO U.
March 17, 2008
Noel Tichy, Professor of Leadership and Management at the University of Michigan, suggests that effective leadership depends on having a teachable point of view. That is, if you don't possess something (skill, knowledge, perspective, or some combination), then your ability to lead is greatly diminished.
Using this as a litmus test for leadership, I now realize [...]
A Declaration of Interdependence
March 12, 2008
This is not a new idea. It is the title of Whole Foods' mission/vision statement, so I take no credit for the phrase. It is an important idea, though.
It came to mind on Monday night while at the EFF Austin party, Plutopia. As I consider the connections and shared vibe between the [...]
Coworking IS Innovation!
March 10, 2008
IDEO's Tom Kelley offers up one of the most useful overviews of innovation available as a book. The book, The Ten Faces of Innovation, outlines 10 personalities/disciplines that make up effective innovation in firms. This underscores a couple of things. First, that innovation is collaborative and interdisciplinary. Secondly, that cross-disciplinary collaboration [...]
From the Field… Job Description
March 10, 2008
First appeared in I understand.
(props to @mjbruder for perm)