April 6, 2011
Dustin Haisler is the former assistant City Manager (and cio) of Manor, Texas where he introduced Web 2.0 and placed quick response tags citywide to increase efficiency and cut costs. He recently joined Spigit to consult with cities nationwide on similar initiatives. Dustin encourages all cities to find creative ways to engage its citizens.
March 30, 2011
Before you implement a new idea into your organisation do you stop to consider the value of this change? What kind of value does it have and to whom? How does one assess this value? Dr. John W. Lewis from Holosoft discusses multiple issues surrounding innovation strategy.
March 23, 2011
Is there such a thing as collective intelligence? We know it exists in the animal kingdom, so can we adapt this phenomena and use it to help organizations through crowdsourcing? Mike Durst from Itonics GMBH examines these questions.
March 16, 2011
Jeffrey Philips from OVO describes innovation as a definable and repeatable business process made of links and layers. Since any innovation is only as strong as its weakest link, most organizations need to overcome strategic issues, create an effective communication strategy and define and improve the evaluation & selection systems. Jeffrey provides relevant advice on how to overcome issues in the innovation process and take an idea to the next step.
March 9, 2011
How can we better our understanding of teamwork, leadership and creativity to rise to our full potential and co-create better business practice, better quality of life, and a better world? In this inspiring presentation Philip Horvath speaks about our transformation into the age of innovation.
March 2, 2011
How do western cultures make sense of the rapid and unified rise of China? Martin Jacques, author of “When China Rules the World,” and a columnist for the Guardian and New Statesman, provides the basic building blocks for understanding modern China and its new position the world.
February 23, 2011
An inspirational disscussion from Professor Anil Gupta, who created the “Honey Bee Network to support grassroots innovators who are rich in knowledge, but not in resources.” In this video he shares many examples of how innovators in rural India are inventing products that are safer, more energy efficient and more affordable than other products on the market.
February 16, 2011
How can a designer create something meaningful, productive and profitable in a consumerist society that is consistently inundated with clever gadgets? Tim Brown, CEO of the innovation and desgin firm IDEO, encourages designers to start with human need – focus less on the object you are designing and more on its impact.
February 9, 2011
Are you interested in learning more about open-forum gatherings? In this video participants from an unconference organized by the Society of Archivists in Manchester give their constructive feedback from different perspectives about this style of participatory information sharing.
February 2, 2011
Best-selling author Daniel Pink spent years studying the science of extrinsic and intrinsic motivators and has come up with some eye-opening conclusions. Find out more about the negative effect that higher incentives have on a worker’s performance, why most managers still use extrinsic motivators knowing full well they do not work, and finally, what lies ahead?
January 26, 2011
Frank Mattes, InnovationManagement contributing editor, gives a presentation on Open Innovation Culture Change at the BOF EMEA 2010. Find out more about his ideas with respect to the leaders of the future, what kind of characteristics they’ll have and how companies can strive for an open culture.
January 19, 2011
This video is a graphic representation of the article “Innovation as a Learning Process: Embedding Design Thinking” authored by Sara L. Beckman of Berkeley and Michael Barry of Stanford. It concisely describes the four basic human learning styles and why this makes different people more adapt for a certain stages of the innovation process.
January 12, 2011
At the Meetings Professional International Conference, keynote speaker Jeremy Gutsche from TrendHunter.com speaks about the culture of revolution and gives many practical examples of companies that are innovating successfully and those that are not. He explains why some of the most iconic, successful, top-innovating companies were all founded in times of crisis.
January 5, 2011
Steven Johnson researches the different conditions that lead to unusual levels of creativity and innovation in current and historical human environments as well as biological environments. Watch this video to find out more about what he discovers about the nature of innovation.
December 29, 2010
Eminent chemical engineering scientist, RA Mashelkar, describes the challenge of creating value for many instead of value for money; we need to get “more from less for more.” In this inspiring speech he shares stories of innovation, passion and compassion.
