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Marketing with Renewed Vision

Michael Kaleikini — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:10:24 -0500

Marketing and Sales blog targeting current issue regarding strategies, ideas, thoughts, rants, and general to specific information that can help anyone understand the realm better. The more they know the easier it is to share ideas and find a common ground with clients and consumers to reach them easier and make them more comfortable when putting a new campaign of any kind.

innovation = collaboration + creativity, but how build collaborative practices?

slim lambert — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:14:58 -0500

Hi,

I am managing a programme called Alstom collaborative Way. I’d like to get a dialogue about it. Today, tools exist for and success stories are already starting to come through.

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Need to Name Fast Company Call-In Unidentified Speakers

Donald Schwartz — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:08:15 -0500

To all those who participated in the Fast Company, Technology Group Call-In: Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings?

I’m working on the transcript with the aid and assistance of Sherri Smith of Fast Company.com

I need your help to put a name to members of the Call-In audience who spoke, but did not identify themselves. Below are a line or two from the transcript. Please contact me directly if you were the speaker or know who the speaker might be. e-mail: lghtthruemulsion@cs.com.

Thanks.

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Innovation and the Obama Presidency

Rip Empson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:11:18 -0500

During his presidential campaign, President-elect Obama was quoted as saying, “America risks being left behind in the global economy: Revolutionary advances in information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other fields are reshaping the global economy. Without renewed efforts, the United States risks losing leadership in science, technology, and innovation.” Unfortunately, the numbers corroborate words; American Federal investment in Science and engineering research has been cut in half since 1970.

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Our Lives Just Changed. Forever. And For The Better.

Mike Wittenstein — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:53:13 -0500

Obama wins. America gets a new service innovation capability.

It took only seconds after McCain's concession last night for e-mails to start arriving from Brazil, Malaysia, and Europe. The most significant one, in my opinion, was the one I got from President-elect Obama. In it, he said "I'll be in touch soon about what comes next."

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PerfSpot.com and OpenSocial: FriendVouch http://www.friendvouch.com

Svetlana Toun — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:33:54 -0400

It is my pleasure to share with you our new development. PerfSpot is launching new development - FriendVouch..

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How Do We Boost Those Much Needed R&D Dollars?

Rip Empson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:32:37 -0400

I just read a blog on WashingtonPost.com that essentially says that a business is doomed to failure if it cannot be on the cutting edge of innovation. And there is no bigger source of innovation than the ideas, products, and designs that come out of those valuable R&D dollars. But R&D will experience a squeeze on a widespread scale in the coming year. Why? Well, for one, offshore outsourcing has become an ingrained practice for the U.S.

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Complaints: The First Step In Innovation?

Mike Wittenstein — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:49:16 -0400

Complaints are a first step to innovation. When your customers complain, they're sharing valuable knowledge with you about their unmet need. Knowledge that, if acted on properly, can guide your idea or innovation to the top.

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Innovation by Saying "No"

Richard Watson — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:36:22 -0400

Given that most of the mess we’re currently in was primarily caused by certain financial innovations, perhaps now is a good time to consider whether some innovations really are a good idea.

Who Gets "It"? Companies That Understand The Value Of Their Dealers

Alder Crocker — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:22:00 -0400

With all that is available to us today, why is it that a company's greatest asset can more often than not, be its most under-utilized?

Short-sightedness? Tunnel vision? Bravado? Strict adherence to long-standing senior management foibles? Or a simple strategy that only "we" know how to truly sell our products better?

All of the above, and in many different combinations.

The Power of Story for Idea/Innovation Makers (You)

Mike Wittenstein — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:16:44 -0400

Idea to innovation. Time to market. Scrap heap or bestseller. For your innovation or idea to make it through the stage gate, gauntlet, market, etc. it has to be communicated. It needs a story. Stories help people understand the significance of your idea by answering what's meaningful about it, how it fits in, why it’s important, how to use it, what others might think of it, is its worth the cost, and so on. As human beings, we are wired for story.

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Don't you think a crisis is the best time to advance strategically?

Mike Wittenstein — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:16:22 -0400

I think a period of crisis is a great time for change because the crisis offers the burning platform--the necessary emotional impetus for change. What do you think? More, what initiatives are you taking on? Let's talk about them.

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Creative Thinking: Making Diamonds from Coal

Rip Empson — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:26:27 -0400

In the October edition of Fast Company Magazine, Gregory Berns wrote an article entitled “Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity”, which I think is fascinating. Read it here.

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Innovation Inspiration from the Customer Experience

Mike Wittenstein — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:57:09 -0400

Inspiration Innovation from the Customer Experience

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A Question of Revolution

Jeff De Cagna — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:33:43 -0400

As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, we are all witnesses to a global revolution that is unfolding before our eyes. As paradigm shift takes root for the first time in a century, organizational leaders are long overdue to start asking better questions, including those for which they don't have--or don't want--the answers. That is the fundamental purpose of this blog.

Metrics. How to meassure Innovation

Dariush Ghatan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:30:14 -0400

So, we believe that what can't be meassured can't be valued can't be..
We need to meassure Innovation. I must have developed 25 different ways of meassuring in the process of developing problems into ideas into concepts into working solutions, but now I am interested in finding out more.

Which are your, valed Fast Company fellows, experiances around Innovation metrics?

Money
Time (to anyting)
Returns
Quality
Numbers

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Which is More Difficult, Service or Product Innovation?

Mike Wittenstein — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:13:30 -0400

When you change the tread design on tires, who do you have to inform up and down the supply chain? What do you have to communicate? And what do you have to track differently? You can probably figure out the answers in your head for these questions.

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Bio and Interests: Rumi Shivaz

Rumi Shivaz — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:01:28 -0400

Based in Wellington, New Zealand, I work as a consultant on Ideas & Innovation space.

HappyParts

Charles Slomovitz — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:20:27 -0400

Music, Art, Film and Ideas.

clean slate

quiet certainty — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:31:40 -0400

starting again, one thing ends and there is always that point when there is nothing, a clean slate, space between, ..searching for the new project, direction, idea, much like reading a wonderful book and reaching the last page, or the end of a good film,before the lights come up, that moment of fullfillment, enjoyment of what has just ended. Knowing that once I leave my theater seat, or close the book, it is finished, over. I have aclean slate, need new focus, beginning a new direction, and searching any positive ideas that will connect and grow into the next project. As

get Fresh Minds

Katie Konrath — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:22:14 -0400

A blog about creativity, innovation and ideas so Fresh... they should be slapped!

What Are Your Thoughts in Regard to Consumer Research?

Joe Kiefer — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:29:55 -0400

I am interested in knowing what people think about consumer research who are part of an innovation and design communities. Please tell me a little about what you find that has worked for you or has not worked for you in building relationships with consumer research companies. Do you currently use research? Why or why not?

I ask these things as the owner of a consumer research firm that wants to reach out to more creatives and inovators. This is not your parents research company if you know what I mean.

Thanks!

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Back to the Future - Helloooooo, McFly?!

David C. — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:07:46 -0400

Is it time that we turned back the clock, figure out what made the web tick, combine it with recent innovative strategies, and then apply it to our innovation strategy? I think so. Read why.

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Are You Blind To Innovation?

Tony McKenzie — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:36:51 -0400

One of the strange things about innovation is that it happens in plain sight, whilst most people are looking the other way.

After watching Seth Godin’s talk on TED I realised some of the most basic things that we now consider as every day essentials to modern life, started out as the innovative ideas that we at first..ignored!

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Bold Ideas

Daniel Broger — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:38:10 -0400