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Predicting the Future: Trend Spotting Resources

March 8, 2010

Product Trends and Inspiration Most people who have been engaged in creativity and innovation, at some point, come to realize that cross pollination and lateral thinking are important sources for creating insights and generating breakthrough solutions to complex problems. I imagine most people have come to rely on particular resources for their inspiration and for [...]

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How to Create a Winning Business Model

February 5, 2010

As a critical source of competitive advantage, innovation certainly deserves the attention it receives.  But innovation is also notoriously difficult to manage.  And while recognized innovators are widely admired for their achievements, every business leader knows that the pursuit of innovation is exceptionally challenging even as it is entirely necessary. The roots of the problem [...]

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The Future of Business Education

January 25, 2010

There has been a lot written about the rate of change and how the speed of change isn’t going to slow down any time soon. One of the impacts of this condition is the complexity of doing business in any industry or sector of society has increased. This complexity challenges every leader to develop new [...]

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Help Wanted: Innovation (or maybe not…)

January 15, 2010

We hear from executives everywhere about how they are genuinely concerned about the state of innovation in their organizations, and how much they want  innovation to improve. Often enough, when they need to hire new people, they’re hoping that the new staff will be able to help them with innovation too.  I recently noticed an [...]

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Celebrating Failure (Intelligent Failure that is)

December 3, 2009

The Tata Group is one of India’s most successful and most admired companies.   From its founding in 1868, the company has grown to encompass about 100 different corporate entities, and employs tens of thousands.  The firm’s business units make cars & trucks, steel, tea, electricity, chemicals, consulting services, software, and just about everything else.  You [...]

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Hydrogen Car going Open Source

June 26, 2009

Whether you have much experience with open source or have explored the potential in engaging a community in co-design and develop or not – it sure is a good idea to pay attention to possible disruptive nature of open source business models in every industry. The manufacturer of a hydrogen car is going to make [...]

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