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Innovation and Creativity for the Darwinian CEO
In a special feature on "dream jobs", an AT&T researcher based in New Jersey explains what the "inventive researcher" does all day. In addition to being given free reign to engage their inner curiosity and tinker with new solutions, these researchers are allowed to "stare off into space" for ...
At the upcoming Cebit technology event in Germany, Russia is officially advertising itself as the "Innovation Nation." It's basically an attempt by Russian government officials to highlight the nation's wealth of programmers, technologists and scientists and entice foreigners to invest directly ...
As Amy Chozick of the Wall Street Journal reports, Japan is turning into a hotbed of creativity, thanks to a nascent economic turnaround and a predilection for all things new and trendy: "Japan has long been a world trendsetter, launching icons like the Sony Walkman and Honda Civic and sparking ...
Ever wondered what would happen if every U.S. CEO really said what he or she thought, instead of saying what he or she thought shareholders and employees wanted to hear? Check out the comments of D.R. Horton CEO Donald Tomnitz, who stunned the audience at a recent Citigroup investor conference ...
Over the past week, the official TED Blog has provided great coverage of the goings-on at TED 2007 in California, which this year has the tagline of "Icons. Geniuses. Mavericks." The event has already received a torrent of publicity, from the likes of CBS News, Business Week and the New York ...
Apple has a long track record of introducing innovative new products, such as the iPod and the iPhone, to popular and critical acclaim. In a witty satire piece, The Onion suggests that the next step for Apple is to create the iLaunch, an innovative way of introducing innovative products ...
In order to accelerate and improve the process of reviewing patents, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is experimenting with wikis. As the Washington Post explains, it's all part of a plan to bring a little "crowd wisdom" to the patent application process: "The Patent and Trademark Office ...
On May 20, The New York Times Magazine is sponsoring the 2nd annual "Sunday with the Magazine" event, which will feature conversations with leading innovators and thinkers in fields such as politics, business, fashion, design, food, technology and entertainment. The slate of speakers is still ...
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to catch the first episode of CNBC's The Business of Innovation TV series when it aired for the first time on Sunday night. However, it looks like the full one-hour episode is available online at CNBC's Business of Innovation site, as part of a four-part Internet ...
As the Vice President of Technical Strategy and Innovation at IBM, Irving Wladawsky-Berger has emerged as one of the most important voices in the online innovation world. Which is why I was a bit surprised to hear that he's retiring after a 37-year career with IBM. (Let's hope that his IBM ...
I've heard a lot about these Acapulco cliff divers (clavadistas), and will finally get a chance to see them in action this week during a trip to Mexico. I'm willing to bet that there is a lot you can learn about innovation from these brave souls who dive from rocky cliffs to the ocean below ...
European innovation blogger Hannes Treichl has suggested a possible mascot for the Endless Innovation blog: the chameleon. What creature - if not the chameleon - best represents the fact that business is truly the survival of the most innovative? Thanks, Hannes! [picture: Karma Chameleon]
Writing in the March 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review, business school professors Satish Nambisan and Mohanbir Sawhney describe how the Innovation Capitalist can help consumer product companies with the external sourcing of innovation. The basic idea is that companies sometimes need to ...
There's a tendency in certain circles to think of creativity and innovation as something that can be artificially created by introducing all kinds of cool-looking toys and doodads into the office. It all started with foosball tables, lava lamps and scooters in Silicon Valley, but now it looks ...
I've been glued to CNBC for the past two nights, trying to make sense of that unexplained global sell-off in the world equity markets that started in China and ended with a 416-point plunge in the Dow. Anyway, while watching Jim Cramer on "Mad Money" and the traders on "Fast Money," an ...