Thanks to Bettina von Stamm for bringing this comedic gem to my attention:
It does a great job of highlighting how technology companies come along and completely change parts of our common language.
For my non-European friends, Orange is a French mobile telecommunications provider (aka France Telecom).
I hope everyone has a funny Friday and a great weekend!
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I came across this video recently thanks to my friends at BLT who recruit consultants for firms in London and beyond.
It pokes fun at the experience many internal and external consultants face with clients, whether we are working on an innovation project, technology project, or some other kind of project.
So, I encourage you to check out the video for a chuckle and to leave a comment below:
How does this reflect your experience of being called upon as an “expert” by a project team?
Or your experience working in the consulting industry and meeting with potential clients in a pre-sales situation as the subject matter expert there with the partner and/or sales guy?
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What makes you stop and stare?
What inspires you?
I’ve written many times about the role of inspiration in innovation, and there are lots of sources of both inspiration and innovation. For me, inspiration is so important to innovation that I put inspiration at the center of my Eight I’s of Innovation framework (traducido al español por Vanessa Lopez-De la O). While inspiration is of course important, there are seven other I’s in the Eight I’s framework that help to transform inspiration into income. I came across a video, on Yahoo! Sports of all places, that inspired me. It shows goats engaging in a very unusual behavior with a metal ribbon.
Here’s the video:
The video of the goats’ behavior made me not just stare, but also made me think about several things, including:
What else can we learn from this video?
Well, in my previous post Key to Innovation Success Revealed! I shared that I see successful innovation as being composed of:
Some might disagree with me, but I believe animals can be inventive, and we can see in the video the goats collaborating. But are the goats being entrepreneurial here?
Are humans the only animals that innovate?
What can we learn from the behavior, physics, or architecture of other animals that might inspire us to achieve success with our current innovation challenge?
Keep innovating!
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My presidential campaign picked up a lot of steam in 2008, but of course I came up short.
Should I make another run for the presidency in 2012?
If you didn’t know I was a front-running presidential candidate in 2008, check out the video:
SORRY – THIS ISN’T AVAILABLE ANY MORE
(which is too bad because it was very cool)
Of course I am kidding, but I was rifling some through old posts and I came across this video. This campaign was one of my favorite pass along marketing campaigns of 2008. It allows you to embed your name or a friend’s name visually in the video in several spots and send the video to them. I thought it was a lot of fun, and probably money much better spent than if they had bought a commercial on the Super Bowl.
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