How many Startups are there? Business, finance, media and technology views from the Financial Times. Please don’t call yourself a serial entrepreneur Thomas Edison: entrepreneur, plain and simple © Getty Images Thought leaders were bad enough.
Changemakers were hard to cope with. Do we still have to put up with serial entrepreneurs? The phrase has become alarmingly common — more than 15,000 people on LinkedIn have decided that “serial entrepreneur” best describes their career path. Admittedly, there is a certain genius in co-opting a word whose better known application to careers has been as a preface to “killer”. But that does not excuse the phrase serial entrepreneur. Uber, Andrew Carnegie and the rise of fast philanthropy Uber – arming up (Getty) I did a double-take at Uber’s decision to fund driverless car research in partnership with Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. FT column: The moment digital selling tips over into creepy stalking. DLD Conference: Digital-Life-Design.
DLD Conference: Digital-Life-Design. 10 Guaranteed Ways To Kill Innovative Thinking. Videoteca. Deconstruction:Reconstruction™ Why You Should Apply Design Thinking To Your Life. Award-winning product designer Ayse Birsel stands before a room of 18 expectant Innovation by Design workshop attendees, the rainbow strands of a beaded necklace and an improvised lanyard of orange pipe-cleaners framing her petite, open face.
"We have an hour and a half to design your life," she says. Time to get down to business. Birsel is the creator of Deconstruction:Reconstruction, a design thinking method that she developed and now teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her approach builds on the “design is thinking made visual” philosophy of Saul Bass, the legendary graphic designer known for his Hollywood movie posters. Over the next 90 minutes, the workshop attendees deconstruct four aspects of life—emotion, physical, intellectual, spirit—and then reconstruct them according to their values and priorities. Barry Calpino on What Drives Innovation at Kraft. Mic Listen to the podcast: Barry Calpino on what drives innovation at Kraft Like many food companies, Kraft Foods has had to deal with the rising costs for commodities, as well as the changing wants and needs of consumers.
Several years ago, the company — which has annual revenues of more than $18 billion and a 27-brand portfolio that includes Velveeta, Jell-O and Kool-Aid — was launching new products at a rapid rate, but it wasn’t really investing in any of them. In recent interview on the Knowledge@Wharton show on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM channel 111, Barry Calpino, Kraft’s vice president for breakthrough innovation, discussed how Kraft rethought its strategy and reaped the rewards of a multi-year, multi-channel mindset to marketing.
Listen to the full interview above and read edited excerpts from the conversation below. A Breakthrough Innovation Culture and Organization. By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things.
This requires risk taking, of course, since no one can foresee the outcome or results of such initiatives. A Breakthrough Innovation Culture and Organization. How to Put Innovation at the Core of your Business Model - Sponsored Content. We hear a lot about innovation today, but why is it so essential to sustainable business success?
Innovation is the oxygen of business. Fail to invest in innovation and eventually you will suffocate and be crowded out by a competitor or by an entrepreneur who identifies how to deliver a solution that creates more value than yours (and those of your competitors). Focus too much attention on efficiency at the expense of innovation and eventually you'll end up getting really good at making stuff people no longer want. To continuously innovate, companies must learn to manage a few key tensions that exist in every organization. First, there is the tension between the executive mindset and the entrepreneurial mindset. The executive mindset is focused on avoiding failure and making the trains run on time. Second: the tension between exploration and exploitation. Invest too little in exploring for new potential markets and you will starve the firm of future growth.
But innovation is not free. Blue Ocean Strategy Australia. Living Systems and The Information First Company. A map tracing the information flows within Uber’s San Francisco market.
One of the great joys of my career is the chance to speak at gatherings of interesting people. Sometimes it’s an unscripted, wide ranging conversation (like during Advertising Week, for example), but other times it’s a formal presentation, which means many hours of preparation and reportage. These more formal presentations are opportunities to consolidate new thinking and try it out in front of a demanding audience. Last month I was invited to speak in front of group of senior executives at a major bank, including the CEO and all his direct reports. I was asked to focus my remarks on how new kinds of companies were threatening traditional incumbents – with a focus on the financial services industry, as you might imagine. So preparing for this talk forced me to do exactly the kind of hard work any writer both fears and relishes – coming up with something original to say. Or let’s look at another market: hospitality. Big Bang Disruption.
1) Consult your truth-tellers Find industry visionaries who see the future more clearly than you do, and who won't sugar-coat it even when you want them to. 2) Pinpoint your market entry.
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World. De quê somos feitos - Aceleratech. The Brainzooming Group. Equipping Right-Brain Entrepreneurs and Creative Agencies with the Mindset, Skills and Tools to Thrive in a Constantly Changing Environment. The World's Most Innovative Companies. The Global Innovation Index 2014 - The Human Factor in Innovation. The Global Innovation Index 2014 (GII), in its 7th edition this year, is co-published by Cornell University,INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO, an agency of the United Nations, UN).
The core of the GII Report consists of a ranking of world economies’ innovation capabilities and results. In 2013, the ranking covered 142 economies, accounting for 94.9% of the world’s population and 98.7% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (in US dollars). The GII has established itself as the reference among innovation indices, and has evolved into a valuable benchmarking tool to facilitate public-private dialogue, whereby policymakers, business leaders and other stakeholders can evaluate progress on a continual basis.