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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Tag Archives: Insights
Building an Innovation and Insights Group from Scratch
Many of you reading this have created or operated innovation or insights programs for organizations of a variety of sizes, or are curious about how to go about it. Operating an innovation program or leading an insights group is definitely … Continue reading
Check Out My Latest Interview with DisrupTV
I had the opportunity recently to sit down with DisrupTV co-hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar to be part of Episode 63. DisrupTV is a weekly Web series that airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Digital Transformation, Innovation
Tagged authors, Books, Commercialization, DisrupTV, Insights, Interviews, organizational change, videos
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Get Social with Your Innovation
If your organization is struggling to sustain its innovation efforts, then I hope you will do the following things. Find the purpose and passion that everyone can rally around. Create the flexibility necessary to deal with the constant change that … Continue reading
Ten Reasons to Hire an Innovation Keynote Speaker
Innovation Keynote Speakers are often misunderstood, maligned, and underutilized. We have all been to many conferences, and heard many good (and bad) keynote and session speakers with a variety of styles (all of which are perfectly acceptable), including: 1. The … Continue reading
Posted in culture, education, eLearning, Innovation, Leadership, Management
Tagged Chief Innovation Officer, content, Employee Engagement, employee retention, Employees, facilitation, facilitators, Innovation Director, Innovation Manager, innovation programs, innovation speaker, Insights, keynote speakers, public speakers, Talent, Top 10, training, Workshops
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Building a Global Sensing Network – Revisited
When I first wrote about Building a Global Sensing Network I wrote in the specific context of the war for innovation and the need to make sure you’re fighting it outside your organization — not inside. We looked at how … Continue reading
Posted in Change, collaboration, Innovation
Tagged downloads, Ethnography, frameworks, free, future, Insights, Networking, Social Business, Trends
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Accelerating Innovation Requires Accelerating Knowledge and Insight
Okay, I admit it, I came across the History Channel’s series Ancient Aliens recently and I’m intrigued, mostly because it is fascinating (and frightening) to me how long it takes to develop true knowledge and insight, but how quickly it … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Innovation, Technology
Tagged Insights, knowledge, knowledge sharing, Networking, sharing
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Innovation Quotes of the Day – June 9, 2012
“The real challenge, therefore, is to turn innovation from a buzzword into a systemic and widely distributed capability. It has to be woven into the everyday fabric of the company just like any other organizational capability, such as quality, or … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Adaptability, Capability, Creativity, education, flexibility, Innovation, Insights, problem solving, Rowan Gibson
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The Code for Successful Innovation
I had the opportunity to attend the Front End of Innovation a couple of years ago in Boston and of the three days of sessions, I have to say that unlike most people, my favorite session was that of Dr. … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, marketing, Psychology, Strategy
Tagged Advertising, Brain, Customers, Insights, Science
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Innovation Quotes of the Day – June 2, 2012
“Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don’t see.” – Berkeley Rice “To innovate for the future present, you must maintain the flexibility to tweak branding and messaging (and even the product or service … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Berkeley Rice, future, Innovation, Insights, marketing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Visionaries
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Trendspotting Trifecta
‘Who should be responsible (if anyone) for trend-spotting and putting emerging behaviors and needs into context for a business?’ I believe this question should really be broken up because there are three VERY different (and incredibly important) pursuits intermingled here: … Continue reading
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