Who is Braden Kelley?
He is a Director of Innovation and Human-Centered Problem-Solving at Oracle, an author, innovation speaker, workshop facilitator, and makes tools for innovation & change .
And also co-founded the world's most popular innovation web site:
"I help organizations increase their organizational agility and accelerate their speed of innovation and organizational change.
If you're looking to create a culture of continuous change, tackle some of your innovation barriers, train your employees to be more innovative change agents, or to build a more profitable, more social business -- let's talk."
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Latest Radio Interview with The Health Maven
I’m proud to share with you the link to my latest radio interview. This time I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with LeAnna J. Carey (@thehealthmaven), host of the popular radio program The Health Maven – Innovation … Continue reading
Join me at the Front End of Innovation 2013
From May 5-8, 2013 I will be in Boston, MA for the Front End of Innovation conference at the Seaport World Trade Center which takes place May 6-8, 2013. Use discount code FEI13BRADEN to save 20% on the event and … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Headlines, Innovation
Tagged appearances, Conferences, events, FEI, FEI 2013, FEI13, Front End of Innovation
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Renting ‘Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire’
I noticed something new on the Amazon page for my book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire today when I popped onto their web site. What was it? Amazon has introduced a rental option for textbooks. It makes sense that my book … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, marketing, Strategy
Tagged Amazon, Books, college courses, Creighton, executive education, MBA, MBA courses, renting, teaching, textbooks, universities
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Is GE Trying to be Too Quirky?
Last week GE and Quirky announced a new partnership where GE will make some of its library of patents available as part of Quirky’s new inspiration platform, allowing inventors to use some of its patents in their potentially novel consumer … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Creativity, Innovation, Open Innovation, Product Innovation
Tagged GE, Idea Connection, innocentive, NineSigma, Quirky
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Philadelphia – Food Fail
In a continuing series of articles exposing the gradual degradation of our food supply, I’d like to highlight what used to be called Philadelphia Cream Cheese, but now you will notice that the logo has dropped the cream cheese phrase … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy
Tagged carageenan, cost cutting, cream cheese, guar gum, Kraft, locust bean gum, Philadelphia, Starbucks, xantham gum
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New Way to Integrate Real and Virtual World
First came augmented reality, using the GPS and camera on your smartphone to layer information from the virtual world onto the real world as displayed via the camera. Now, Fujitsu has introduced a device that I came across on Mashable … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
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Kentucky ‘Fraud’ Chicken – Food Fail
Cost Cutting Gone Mad Every time I turn around, food continues to get less and less real. Imagine my surprise when in a fit of weakness I turned up at my local KFC (yes, the word chicken is no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy
Tagged Eating, Fast Food, food, health, Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC, retail, Yum Brands
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Optimizing Innovation Resonance
What does resonance mean to you? The word has many different dictionary definitions depending on the context, but most of them focus on vibrations reaching an ideal state. Here are two of the most relevant dictionary definitions for our innovation … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Innovation, marketing, Product Innovation, Psychology, Technology
Tagged Blue Ocean Strategy, frameworks, Infinite Innovation, iphone, ipod, methodologies, Moises Norena, resonance, Strategy Canvas, value, Velocity, Veracity, Whirpool
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Latest Radio Interview with Entrepreneur on Fire
I’m proud to share with you the link to my latest radio interview – this time with the popular program Entrepreneur on Fire. Podcast: Download | Play in new window
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