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Innovation and Creativity for the Darwinian CEO
Today is the day that die-hard Yankee fans have been eagerly looking forward to since October - Pitchers and Catchers Day down in Tampa, Florida. As Spring Training finally kicks off, Yankees pitchers and catchers start arriving today, preparing for their first formal workout on Thursday. Several ...
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal ran an online survey of its readers, asking them to predict which form of alternative energy would be most prevalent by the year 2030. Somewhat surprisingly, the top pick was NUCLEAR, with a whopping 49% of the vote. (I've been following some uranium companies ...
When I listened in on the Xerox conference call a few weeks ago, they mentioned a slew of innovative new products scheduled for the first half of 2007, but they didn't mention anything about this: an expanded initiative to develop a Google-killer. As Xerox slowly rebuilds itself into a global ...
Ideas are the life-blood of the innovation community. With that in mind, over on the Principled Innovation blog, Jeff De Cagna announces the launch of a new series of blog posts called Garage Memes: "Last month, I wrote about the need to bring more “garage thinking” into the ...
When it comes to innovation, is it too much of a simplification to say that there are two types of people -- creationists and evolutionists? Creationists believe that most innovation results from a random spark of creativity somewhere within the organization. These folks tend to focus much more ...
Obviously spooked by the prospect that Americans might finally embrace alternative energy sources like ethanol, the oil industry is mounting a massive PR campaign based around "innovation" to get out in front of the issue. Much as British Petroleum changed its name to BP ("Beyond Petroleum") in ...
One of the most interesting examples in Malcolm Gladwell's landmark book The Tipping Point was the case of shoe retailer Hush Puppies, which experienced a hipster revival in the mid-1990s, thanks to the efforts of the "cool kids" in Manhattan. From a relatively small neighborhood in the East ...
This case study of Disney kicks off what I hope becomes a regular series on business innovation that I'm calling "Survival of the Most Innovative." (an obvious reference to the Darwinian concept of the "Survival of the Fittest") Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal (free feature) described the ...
Fortress Investment Group, the first-ever hedge fund IPO, starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. If you don't already have your hard-earned dollars (or euros) tucked away in a nice little hedge fund earning 20-30% a year, now is your chance to play with the Wall Street big boys ...
Now is your chance to ask Donald Trump any question you want - preferably about innovation or creativity, but if you want to know something about Melanie, hey, that's your business. Together with FORTUNE magazine, UPS is sponsoring a series of Q&As with cool business thinkers, and Donald Trump ...
Langdon Morris, author of the book Permanent Innovation, has just posted the latest results of an online survey on innovation that was conducted by Innovation Labs during November and December. Below, Langdon lists some of the key takeaway lessons from the survey: (1) Respondents feel that ...
Over at the Great Human Capital blog, Margaret Wheatley has written a beautifully moving description of innovation that ties in to many of the themes that will appear here on the Endless Innovation site. According to Margaret, too many organizations fail on their innovation projects because they ...
Many would claim that "innovation" remains the hottest buzzword in business today. Yet, according to this graphical chart from Google Trends (which measures the popularity of certain search requests), it looks like the term "innovation" was actually hotter in 2005 than it was in 2006. Am I ...
For years, researchers have known about the existence of Junk DNA - long sequences of DNA for which no known purpose or function has been identified. In some cases, this Junk DNA actually codes for something; in other cases, it doesn't appear to do much of anything. It's actually fascinating to ...
If you've been tracking the business innovation space over the past year or so, you're probably aware that Scott Berkun is working on a new book about innovation with an April 2007 release date. Below, Scott explains that a major focus of the new book will be identifying and exploring the ...