Tag Archives: innovation

UBC Sauder Alumni Mag Profile

November 29, 2011 – 3:24 pm

I am thrilled and honored to be featured alongside Ryan Beedie, Gregg Saretsky, and Livia Mahler in the current UBC Sauder School of Business alumni magazine cover story on entrepreneurship and innovation. What company! I hope to accomplish half of what they have been able to achieve in their careers. Here’s to the many other [...]

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Strategy vs. Business Model innovation

November 7, 2011 – 10:19 pm

A post on the Innovation Excellence blog asks, “Is business model innovation just another name for strategy?” The author, John Steen, answers in the affirmative in the case of incremental innovation, but argues that radical business model reinvention reaches beyond the conventional strategy toolkit. I think that strategy and business model innovation diverges when we [...]

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Five Dysfunctions of a Digital Team

October 18, 2011 – 9:46 am

When an organization’s external digital presence is inconsistent or incoherent, this is nearly always a symptom of deeper internal structural problems, such as: Silos: The people responsible for digital work are isolated from the rest of the organization. They can’t get the information they need to support other teams/departments until it’s too late. The digital [...]

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Why innovation resists codification

July 20, 2011 – 3:50 pm

The latest book on [design thinking] is Designing for Growth, a “design thinking toolkit for managers” and it provides a pretty good snapshot of how people are thinking about the discipline right now. Namely, that the reins of design thinking lie firmly in the hands of executives. In this world, design thinking is shorthand for the [...]

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Associating. Questioning. Observing. Networking. Experimenting.

July 20, 2011 – 10:51 am

Clay Christensen and coauthors write in The Innovator’s DNA about “what makes innovators different.” They point to five skills or behaviors: First and foremost, innovators count on a cognitive skill that we call “associational thinking” or simply “associating.” Associating happens as the brain tries to synthesize and make sense of novel inputs. It helps innovators [...]

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Adapt

May 31, 2011 – 3:14 pm

Tim Harford is a Financial Times columnist and the presenter of Radio 4′s More or Less, which won the Royal Statistical Society’s 2010 award for statistical excellence in broadcast journalism. He is also the author of several books, including The Undercover Economist. His latest is Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. Cory Doctorow: First [...]

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Prehype helps companies execute on “20% projects”

May 30, 2011 – 9:37 am

Prehype aims to come into a company and identify its “intrapreneurs.” Then, they will host the employee or employees a la Google’s 20% time, building a new company outside of the original company. Another way it works is if an employee has an idea and seeks out Prehype. Prehype will then help them convince their company [...]

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CEO Innovation Playbook

April 7, 2011 – 11:17 pm

via slideshare.net Innovation manifesto from Idris Mootee, head of “b-school + d-school” firm Idea Couture.

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Service Design

April 7, 2011 – 10:54 pm

From finance to healthcare to media, New York’s economy is primarily driven by services. Yet our understanding of what design offers is rooted in products and places rather than how those things operate or how people use them — design has traditionally concerned itself with goods, not services. Only in the past decade or so [...]

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The Domino Project: Seth Godin’s new publishing platform

December 9, 2010 – 1:10 am

To launch the Domino Project, a bestselling author is walking away from traditional book publishing and using the tools of new media to bring his (and his colleagues’) ideas to the world in a new way. Amazon is working with me to create The Domino Project, a new kind of book publishing venture, one that [...]

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