Category Archives: Strategy

Join Braden Kelley in London for an Innovation Masterclass

Please join me March 14-16, 2012 in London, England for a three day innovation masterclass based on my popular book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. This Three Day Innovation Event with Braden Kelley will help you learn how to create a … 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

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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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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

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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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Embedding Innovation

Distributing Innovation Knowledge for Innovation Success Is innovation in your organization a project? Or are you trying to embed innovation into your organization as a new core competency? Is innovation part of the new business as usual you are trying … Continue reading

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No Time to Innovate

Take an Innovation Vacation A popular set of questions that I get asked repeatedly by clients and audience members includes the following: We know we need to innovate, but who has time? How do companies balance the day to day … Continue reading

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Netflux – A Qwikster Innovation Divorce for Netflix

Breaking up is hard to do, but sometimes it is the right thing to do. Imagine my surprise when an e-mail from Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO of Netflix arrived in my inbox this morning announcing that Ms. Netflix was … Continue reading

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An Innovation Eclipse

The failure of Solyndra last week – a United States solar energy venture backed by $535 million in federal loan guarantees drew the ire of many people concerned with the state of the federal budget deficit and the growing national … Continue reading

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