Who are the best open innovation speakers globally?
It is nice to make a list like this! NESTA is an innovation company from the U.K. that works with high tech startups.
Smart Signs and Smart Innovation: Are You Preparing Now? Let Us Help
One of the most exciting opportunity areas for targeted innovation is in the display of digital information. The information-rich world of the film Minority Report is becoming closer to reality each day, with some practical twists. Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Intel and Microsoft are teaming up to provide smart digital displays in retail…
8 Jan 10: NESTA Connect Blog
Who are the best open innovation speakers globally?: NESTA Connect blog, January 8, 2010
Customer Service: Building a sustainable advantage
If you are a small business owner, this new year is a great time to take stock in how your company is doing. Do you have a plan for creating more value and exceeding customer’s expectations? This year a big marketing buzzword to watch is “customer service.” Offering outstanding customer service doesn’t just make good…
Consumer trends for 2010:
So long 2009. Time to look forward… I love imagining the exciting new possibilities the New Year brings! What is on your radar for the coming year? How will the next big trends impact your business, your social life or your relationships? Over at Trendhuntertv.com, the big prediction for 2010 includes “Rental Culture,” “Next Besting”…
Irony in Innovation!
Sometimes what you expect from an innovative idea or a product isn’t always what you get. In fact sometimes you get the opposite end result from what you thought would happen. If you were around in the 1970’s when the computer revolution was beginning, you may remember all those who predicted that computers would soon…
December thoughts…
December is a time when we often think about how we’ve been blessed, and how we’ve been challenged. However you celebrate the holiday season, I hope you are able to take some time to reflect and also to enjoy the people in your lives! This time of year you don’t need to look too hard…
Half a million daily is a lofty goal for P. & G.
What if you could add more than a half million new customers to your business EVERY DAY, for the next five years? Make that 548,000 new customers, to be precise. That’s what Procter & Gamble’s new chief executiveRobert McDonald says he’ll be doing for the company. He wants to do this by continually expanding P.…
Crisis management often leads to open innovation
Last week I was in Orlando for the Open Innovation Summit. I, along with several other speakers, talked about how innovation is often sparked by a burning platform. In other words, a crisis! The conference chair Michael Arndt wrote an article about it in his Businessweek blog titled Next Innovation Tools & Trends. I highly…
3 Dec 09: BusinessWeek.com
Open innovation’s secret: It takes a crisis: BusinessWeek.com NEXT Innovation Tools & Trends blog, December 3, 2009