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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 lie [...]

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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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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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Introduction to the iLands of Innovation

April 29, 2009

What is Innovation?While we may think of innovation as the emergence or creation of something completely unique, the dictionary definition suggests something more modest—and maybe more valuable to the practitioner. To innovate means simply to renew. It means to bring some idea into the world that is new or that can be presented as new. [...]

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Idea Generation

March 31, 2009

Idea Generation is one of the stages in any innovation process. There are many techniques that can be used for idea generation but how do you know which one is the right one?
Set the ContextMost likely, the right method to use for idea generation is based on the context and reason you are generating ideas. [...]

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Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web | Video on TED.com

February 16, 2009

These are the last two slides in a 20 minute presentation by Kevin Kelley – IMO a person who articulates our web experience now and in the future better than anyone.
I think his whole talk ( from TED Talks) is worth listening to so you will understand what ONE means.
Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 [...]

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