Monthly Archives: October 2010

Free Speech – Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire

Who says there is no such thing as free speech?
(well, nearly free)

Innovation Keynote Speaker Braden KelleyFrom now thru December 31, 2010, if you are one of the first five organizations to buy 100 copies of my new book – Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire – I will waive 100% of my normal speaking fee to come and deliver a keynote or workshop at your organization or event (travel expenses still apply).

OR, if during the same time period you are one of the first five organizations to buy 50 copies of my new book – Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire – I will waive 50% of my normal speaking fee to come and deliver a keynote or workshop at your organization or event (travel expenses still apply).

Click here to take advantage of this offer.

OR, you can catch me talking about the book at one of the following upcoming events in November:

If you’d like me to come and speak at your organization or event, contact me here.



Special Bonus

Download 'Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire' sample chapterIf you’ve read all the way to the bottom, then you deserve a free sample chapter from my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. I hope you enjoy the sample chapter and consider purchasing the book as a way of supporting the future growth of this community.

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Toronto Innovation Book Event

Toronto Innovation Book EventOn Tuesday, November 9, 2010 I will be speaking about my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire at a book event at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto as part of their Innovation in Business Experts Speaker Series @ Rotman.

TIME: 7:45 am to 8:45 am – Presentation and Q&A

PLACE: Classroom 127 (ground floor), Rotman School of Management, 105 St. George Street, Toronto

FEE: $49 plus HST per person; $39 plus HST per person for Rotman and U of Toronto alumni (fees include the session, 1 copy of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire)

TO REGISTER: Click Here

I will be speaking about my book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire – A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose, answering questions, and signing copies of the book.

If you’re in Toronto I hope you’ll register for the event and I’ll see you there.

If you’d like to organize a Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire book event in your city, please let me know.



Special Bonus

Download 'Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire' sample chapterIf you’ve read all the way to the bottom, then you deserve a free sample chapter from my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. I hope you enjoy the sample chapter and consider purchasing the book as a way of supporting the future growth of this community.

Download the sample chapter

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Keynote at Pipeline 2010

Pipeline 2010 Braden KelleyOn November 10, 2010 I will be delivering the closing keynote at Pipeline 2010 – The Online Conference for Innovative Product Development. The tagline for the event is “Connect with innovation and discover your potential” and the event is FREE and ONLINE.

The event is hosted by Planview and sponsored by Siemens, Kalypso, and Brightidea.

The two keynotes for this novel online event are:

The speaker roster for this November 10, 2010 event also includes:

  • Robert Shelton – PRTM
  • Maureen Carlson – Appleseed Partners
  • Matt Greene – Siemens
  • Thomas Hustad – PDMA
  • Louise K. Allen and Rob Reesor – Planview
  • Steven Cristol – Strategic Harmony Partners
  • Chad Jackson – Lifecycle Insights
  • John Milburn – Pragmatic Marketing
  • Bill Poston – Kalypso
  • Phil Ventimiglia – NCR
  • Vincent Carbone – Brightidea

I will be talking about some of the content from my new book – Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire – including the importance of speaking a common language, the power of simplicity, rediscovering your innovation superpowers, and the nine innovation roles.

Click here to register for Pipeline 2010


'Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire' shipped to nearly 90 countries

Special Bonus

Download 'Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire' sample chapterIf you’ve read all the way to the bottom, then you deserve a free sample chapter from my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. I hope you enjoy the sample chapter and consider purchasing the book as a way of supporting the blog.

Download the sample chapter

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Kindle Sample of ‘Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire’

Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire is being announced by John Wiley & Sons today. Please help get the book off to a strong start by purchasing a copy (or one for each member of your team), and then reading and reviewing it on the retailer’s site or on your own personal blog. If you love Blogging Innovation, then you’ll love the book, and getting a copy of the book is a great vote of support for the work we are doing to make innovation and marketing insights accessible for the greater good.

A lot of hard work went into this book to make it accessible for innovators and managers in organizations of all sizes, while at the same time, it is also structured in such a way that it could be very useful in an academic setting.

I hope you’ll enjoy the book!

You can see the foreword from Rowan Gibson and Chapter 1 using the Kindle for the Web Beta reader below (the book is available as a hardcover, and for Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac, PC, etc.) – a special bonus awaits you at the bottom of this article:


'Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire' shipped to nearly 90 countries

Special Bonus

Download 'Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire' sample chapterIf you’ve read all the way to the bottom, then you deserve a free sample chapter from my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. I hope you enjoy the sample chapter and consider purchasing the book as a way of supporting the blog.

Download the sample chapter

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Please Help Ignite the Innovation Bonfire

Innovation Speaker and Author Braden KelleyEvery successful organization began as a nimble, innovative startup with the ability to course-correct and quickly adapt to the needs of its customers. But along the way, success and growth cause changes in the structure, the culture, and sometimes even the vision of organizations. Successful, growing organizations often focus on driving out the operational inefficiencies they maintained during their startup phase, and unintentionally erect barriers to innovation along the way.

When organizations realize that they need to innovate, they find that they struggle to do so. Often organizations make the mistake of copying the artifacts they observe or read about in case studies to boost their innovation. Instead, organizations need to look internally to build new organizational capabilities that will enable them to create their own artifacts.

My new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire will help readers identify the innovation blockages specific to their organization and teach them the fundamental changes that will help their organizations rebuild their hidden or lost innovation capabilities. Where appropriate we will leverage and evolve other leading innovation theories into coherent, practical applications that readers can implement in reinvigorating their organizations themselves – without expensive consultants.

Please help get the book off to a strong start by purchasing a copy (or one for each member of your team), and then reading and reviewing it on the retailer’s site or on your own personal blog. If you love Blogging Innovation, then you’ll love the book, and getting a copy of the book is a great vote of support for the work we are doing to make innovation insights accessible for the greater good.

A lot of hard work went into this book to make it accessible for innovators and managers in organizations of all sizes, while at the same time, it is also structured in such a way that it could be very useful in an academic setting.

I hope you’ll enjoy the book!

Here are a few of the advance reviews and interviews for Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire:

Here are a few of the endorsements of the book:

Steve Faktor“Innovation is all about taming the unknown. In large companies, the unknown often goes unfunded. Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire arms you with the case studies you need to go from random spark to a steady burn.”

  • Steve Faktor, Vice President, Business Growth and Innovation, American Express

Chris Thoen - Procter & Gamble“Innovation is essential for the long-term success of companies. Braden Kelley provides individuals, organizations, and companies with a very powerful matchbox (tools and insights) to vigorously light their innovation bonfires! A must-read.”

  • Chris Thoen, Managing Director, Global Open Innovation Office, Procter & Gamble

Mark Bernstein - PARC“Braden Kelley has delivered a book that helps people move innovation from theory into practice. Given our experience innovating with clients over the past 40 years, I believe Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire shares many useful strategies and case studies showcasing what works. Most importantly, the book helps managers identify and address the barriers to innovation within their organization – a crucial step towards making sustainable change.”

  • Mark Bernstein, CEO of PARC

As you can see, the people who have received a sneak peak of the book so far have enjoyed it and I hope you will get yourself a copy and find something useful in it too. It is available for the Kindle in the UK and the USA, as an eBook from Barnes & Noble, and as a hardcover. Both electronic versions of the book also allow you to read it on your iPad, iPhone, Mac, PC, Android, etc.

Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire is now widely available in North America and is winging its way to online retailers and book shops in many countries around the world as we speak. Here is a list of many of the places it is available to purchase or pre-order. If we missed a big retailer in your country, please let us know:

Order your copy of 'Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire'

Sneak Peek

Download 'Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire' sample chapterIf you’ve read all the way to the bottom, then you deserve a free sample chapter from my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. I hope you enjoy the sample chapter and consider purchasing the book as a way of supporting the blog.

Download the sample chapter


'Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire' shipped to nearly 90 countries

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Introducing Snack-Sized Innovation Consulting

As many of you know, Human-Centered Change & Innovation is a sideline for me, and a way of giving back by bringing together the best human-centered innovation, change, transformation, design thinking and experience insights I can get access to and then make them accessible for the greater good.

To pay the bills and keep Human-Centered Change & Innovation going, I do consulting, speaking and writing.

In recognition of the changing economic realities and the increasingly global market for our services, we are pleased to offer snack-sized innovation and marketing consulting services by Skype video conference as well as traditional on-site consulting. Now you can rent Braden’s brain for even the smallest need or budget. Here are our three main packages:

Silver Gold Platinum
$499 Innovation and Transformation Consulting

  • Skype video call
  • Up to 90 minutes of preparation and consulting services
  • Additional hours available for purchase

$499 Innovation and Transformation Consulting

$999 Innovation and Transformation Consulting

  • Skype video call
  • Up to 180 minutes of preparation and consulting services
  • Additional hours available for purchase

$499 Innovation and Transformation Consulting

On-Site Innovation and Transformation Consulting

  • Travel expenses
  • Custom on-site consulting solution
  • Purchased by the day or week
  • Scheduled in advance

On-Site Innovation and Transformation Consulting

Business Strategy Innovation delivers workshops and consulting services that focus on three areas:

  1. Getting Started with Innovation
  2. Creating a Culture of Continuous Innovation
  3. Building Stronger Customer and Employee Relationships

Founded by Braden Kelley, Business Strategy Innovation has been advising companies since 1996 in industries ranging from medical equipment, software, and internet advertising to real estate, retail, defense, and more.

Based in Seattle, Washington we are just a short flight away from anywhere in the United States and available to work with companies in Europe, Asia, and beyond. But, now with these new snack-size consulting options, you don’t have to have a budget big enough to bring us to you, and can instead get some really good feedback or advice on the issues you are wrestling with at a much lower cost.

I look forward to helping out however I can.

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