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About Braden Kelley

Braden Kelley is a Human-Centered Experience, Innovation and Transformation consultant at HCL Technologies, a popular innovation speaker, and creator of the FutureHacking™ and Human-Centered Change™ methodologies. He is the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons and Charting Change (Second Edition) from Palgrave Macmillan. Braden is a US Navy veteran and earned his MBA from top-rated London Business School. Follow him on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 4, 2012

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“The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”

– Helen Keller

“The question is not whether someone is innovative or not, but what innovation roles does each person tend towards. Are all Nine Innovation Roles represented on your teams? Innovation is a team sport, and all nine roles are required for innovation success.”

– Braden Kelley

“In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.”

– Tim Bishop

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 3, 2012

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“In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we’re so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.”

– Dean Kamen

“I’m of the opinion that all people are creative, in their own way… I believe that all people excel at one of Nine Innovation Roles, and that when organizations put the right people in the right innovation roles, that your innovation speed and capacity will increase.”

– Braden Kelley

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

– Albert Einstein

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Winning Design – Nine Innovation Roles Interactive Card Deck

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I am proud to announce the winning design for the Nine Innovation Roles Interactive Card Deck.

It comes to you from a $500 design contest I ran on the popular crowdsource site – CrowdSpring. As I wrote previously I was unsure whether to use 99Designs or CrowdSpring and even went so far as to throw it out as a question to the audience here to see what the wisdom of the crowd said. In the end, CrowdSpring won the business over 99Designs because they took the time to interact with me on Twitter when I was busy also asking my 12,800+ Twitter followers the same question.

Nine Innovation Roles Card Deck Coming Soon

Winning Design - Nine Innovation Roles Interactive Card Deck

Now I will post the winning design on my IndieGoGo project page to build the funding momentum for the project there. Some of you may remember that I first tried to start a project on Kickstarter but was summarily rejected – I guess for not being cool enough or arty enough. No matter. I look forward to working with the folks at IndieGoGo instead.

If you’re not familiar with The Nine Innovation Roles, check out this presentation:

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 2, 2012

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“One who fears limits his activities. Failure is the only opportunity to more intelligently begin again.”

– Henry Ford

“Too often we form innovation teams based on who is available instead of focusing on who will make the innovation team successful.”

– Braden Kelley

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

– John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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Charitable Quotes of the Day – May 1, 2012

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In honor of May Day I thought I would share some charity related quotes instead of the usual innovation related quotes.

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”

– Sir Winston Churchill

“You will find, as you look back on your life, that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others.”

– Henry Drummond

“We must maximize our innovation leverage at every level of society. A stable society demands that businesses, governments, and charities work together to create an efficient ecosystem that injects hope into the populace.”

– Braden Kelley

“Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.”

– Walt Whitman

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”

– Helen Keller

“Make it a rule…never to lie down at night without being able to say, ‘I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier or a little better this day’.”

– Charles Kingsley

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Please Help Pick Nine Innovation Roles Card Design

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We are in the final day of the CrowdSpring $500 design contest for designing the Nine Innovation Roles Card Deck. Once I pick a winner then I will need to pick a printer for the large format cards.

There are some very interesting and widely diverse designs to choose from for the Nine Innovation Roles Card Deck and I’d love to hear your vote on which winner I should choose in the comments below by adding a comment that says “Design One” or “Design Seven” or “Design Nine”, etc.

Here are the designs so far:

Design One

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Design Two

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Design Three

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Design Five

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Design Nine

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 30, 2012

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“Albert Einstein wrote, ‘Everybody is a genius! But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid!’
We are all capable of doing one thing better than any other person alive at this time in history!”

– Matthew Kelly

“In order for innovation to reliably happen at every level of the organization, it will be extremely useful for all members to have access to the voice of the customer.”

– Braden Kelley

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

– J.K. Rowling

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Free Innovation Keynote May 2nd in Seattle

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Come Join Me May 2nd in SeattleOn May 2nd I will be the keynote innovation speaker for the Invista Performance Solutions launch event in Seattle, WA (well, Mercer Island actually). Invista is a partnership of Northwest Colleges dedicated to providing high quality workforce training to meet and exceed client expectations. Formed in July 2011, Invista has a strategic mission: To help companies gain a competitive advantage in the global economy by increasing the skills of their workforce.

I will be speaking about the attributes of highly innovative companies amongst many other innovation topics. Praveen Gupta will also be speaking, so two great speakers for the price of one, and that price is one that you can’t refuse – FREE.

There will also be an interactive session following the speeches.

If you live in the Seattle/Tacoma area, come join me on May 2nd.

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 29, 2012

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“If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you’ll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.”

– Jim Jarmusch

“One of the ways that you can attract people to your innovation efforts is to leverage the power of passion. Seek to identify what people are passionate about when it comes to your company or your products. Passion can be extremely contagious.”

– Braden Kelley

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

– Albert Einstein

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 28, 2012

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“Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.”

– Barack Obama

“Being successful in the innovation aspects of social business requires an organization to establish a place and a reason for mutually beneficial dialogue to occur.”

– Braden Kelley

“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”

– Alexis de Tocqueville

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