Who is Braden Kelley?
I am an innovation speaker, trainer, marketing strategist, and recognized thought leader.
And also co-founded the world's most popular innovation web site:
"I help organizations use social media and other tools to attract and engage customers, partners, and employees to help the organization achieve its goals.
If you're looking to create a culture of innovation, tackle some of your innovation barriers, train your employees to be more innovative, or build a more profitable, more social business -- let's talk."
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Category Archives: culture
How healthy are your innovation efforts?
As organizations become more mature in their process excellence efforts, an increasing number of organizations are turning their attention to try and achieve innovation excellence. So where should your journey of a thousand innovation steps begin? As your organization begins … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Innovation, Management
Tagged data analysis, Employees, innovation audit, Innovation Culture
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Become a Certified Nine Innovation Roles Workshop Facilitator
In support of my crowdfunding project over on IndieGoGo I am offering an incredible deal to the first TEN (10) individuals to grab this perk: In exchange for each $500 investment, the first TEN (10) people anywhere in the world … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Creativity, culture, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Management, marketing
Tagged Nine Innovation Roles, Public Seminars, Workshops
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Where is your Innovation Friction?
How should firms develop the organizational structure, culture, and incentives (e.g., for teams) to encourage successful innovation? When it comes to creating an innovation culture, often people make it far too complicated. If you’re part of the senior leadership team … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Finance, Innovation, Innovation Perspectives, Management
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Do you have an Anti-Creativity Checklist?
I came across Yougme Moon’s “Anti-Creativity Checklist” over at the Harvard Business Review after a tweet from @lindegaard and it got me thinking… In order to build a culture capable of encouraging innovation or creativity (or both), you must first … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, culture, Innovation, Psychology
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Creating a Culture of Continuous Innovation
In this economic downturn there is more pressure than ever on executives to find new sources of growth, and as a result leaders are increasingly talking about innovation. In some organizations the leader may say “we need to be more … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, culture, Innovation, Leadership, Management
Tagged change, Continuous Innovation, goals, Process, Storytelling, Systems, time, Visualization, Vocabulary
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Growing Demand for a Third Place
I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time, and am finally getting around to it, so hear goes… As I look around the economic landscape in the United States and see a climate where not only home prices … Continue reading
Posted in culture, marketing, Psychology
Tagged burger king, McDonald's, shopping malls, Starbucks
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Twelve Days of Innovation
As we are now in the middle of the Twelve Days of Christmas, I thought it might be fun to do a post from the innovator’s perspective of the kinds of gifts that might mean the most to an innovator … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Psychology, Strategy
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Mobilizing Your Innovation Army – Redux
We had some technical difficulties last week, so IIR will be re-hosting this free webinar this Thursday – September 15, 2011 at Noon EDT. Too much of the time the innovation conversation focuses on whether someone is innovative or not. … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Innovation, Management
Tagged conference, event, free, internet, live, webinar
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Reminder – Free Innovation Webinar Tomorrow
At Noon EDT tomorrow I will present a FREE webinar titled ‘Mobilizing Your Innovation Army‘ as part of the Back End of Innovation conference that will take place October 17-19, 2011 in San Diego where fellow Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Innovation, Psychology
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