Who is Braden Kelley?
Braden Kelley, is a social business architect, a popular writer, speaker, and trusted advisor.
He also co-founded the world's most popular innovation web site:
"Using social media and other tools I help organizations attract and engage customers, partners, and employees to help the organization achieve its goals.
If you're looking to begin your innovation journey, tackle some of your innovation barriers, or build a more profitable, more social business -- let's talk."
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Category Archives: Management
Unlocking the Inner Child for Innovation
In the quest to unlock innovation in organizations, it may be beneficial or even mandatory to learn how to unlock the internal children in our employees. I’m sure we can all remember as children being told “don’t” do this or … Continue reading
Checkbox Hiring Doesn’t Lead to Innovation
When looking for a new job, it seems like 95% of the time people will only hire you to do the job you just did, and the other 5% of the time will provide an equal mix of once in … Continue reading
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Innocentive – New White Paper on External Talent Strategies
Authored by industry thought leader Braden Kelley and following on the heels of a recent webinar (link to recording) on the same topic, this white paper explores the intersection of talent management and open innovation strategies. The paper dives into … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Open Innovation, Strategy
Tagged communities, experts, external, global, HR, Human Resources, people, personnel, Social Networks, Talent
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Are you good enough?
Unless you have invented a completely new product or service, it is very likely that there are large competitors already in your marketplace, established competitors that you will be trying to outwit and outmaneuver. Even if you do have a … Continue reading
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Managing Innovation is about Managing Change
Click on Part 1 or Part 2 or Part 3 or Part 4 if you missed the other excerpts from Chapter 10 in Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire Innovation is about change. Companies that successfully innovate in a repeatable fashion have … Continue reading
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Making Innovation Sustainable – Part 4 of 4
Click on Part 1 or Part 2 or Part 3 if you missed them Innovation Is Social These quotes from John Hagel’s article are important because they reinforce the notion that innovation is a social activity. While many people give … Continue reading
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Making Innovation Sustainable – Part 3 of 4
Click on Part 1 or Part 2 if you missed them Purpose and Passion Ultimately, successful and sustainable innovation is all about purpose and passion. The people in your organization have to be clear on what the purpose of the … Continue reading
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Making Innovation Sustainable – Part 1 of 4
Key Dangers: Viewing innovation as a temporary, extraordinary effort in response to a crisis, or pursuing innovation as a competitive response. Treating innovation as the domain of only the R & D or Marketing department, or some other subgroup. Treating … Continue reading
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Harnessing the Global Talent Pool to Accelerate Innovation
In this webinar hosted by Innocentive I explore how organizations can utilize open innovation and crowdsourcing resources as an essential talent management strategy to drive their business. You can engage me to create a webinar or white paper for your … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management, Open Innovation, Strategy
Tagged collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Employees, innocentive, solutions, success, Talent, Video, webinar
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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
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