Richard Haasnoot is an innovation expert and is currently the leader of two leading innovation companies in the world. In his life as entrepreneur and innovator, he has guided many organizations towards success. Apart from this, he also authored several ...
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Richard Haasnoot is an innovation expert and is currently the leader of two leading innovation companies in the world. In his life as entrepreneur and innovator, he has guided many organizations towards success. Apart from this, he also authored several ...
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Listen to this Informative Interview with Lon Safko on The Fusion Marketing Bible (Can’t See Radio Player Click Here) The Fusion Marketing concept and the Safko Wheel is so revolutionary that it has been accepted by the United States Patent ...
Read More »Silicon Valley Bank Opens U.K. Branch
The bank for some of America's most successful tech companies is looking to take advantage of the U.K.'s thriving start-up community. Silicon Valley Bank has crossed the pond.
Read More »10 Ways You Should Never Describe Yourself
When other people use these words to describe your talents, it's OK. When you do it, you just sound like a pompous jerk. Picture this: You meet someone new
Read More »5 Tips to Spot True Innovators
It's not just a matter of finding creative dreamers; you need people who can turn ideas into money. Here's what to look for.
Read More »Medical Innovation Needs Silicon Valley Speed, Stat
I’ve been directing or advising innovation and commercialization efforts in Silicon Valley for most of my career. While the popular stories we tell about innovation usually focus on eureka moments and brilliant individuals, anyone involved in successful innovation knows that getting a new product to market is often more about convincing smart people to back your idea, corralling lots of different agendas, aligning incentives, and navigating bureaucracies.
Read More »For Toyota, JPMorgan, And State Farm, Arizona Is The Silicon Valley Of Data Security
In the Phoenix metro area, sprawling data centers and fraud-prevention companies bloom like the cacti and agaves of a growing tech ecosphere. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights All around the country, Americans are dreaming big. Their boldest ideas are changing their communities--and having a ripple effect throughout the world
Read More »Every Innovative Dream Team Needs These
The three types of people that are necessary for any team tasked with innovation. Bloomberg recently profiled an entrepreneurial luminary, Steve Blank, who teamed up with the National Science Foundation to teach classes for the newly formed NSF Innovation Corps. The NSF I-Corps, as it's called, seeks to commercialize new products out of U.S
Read More »Industry Experience? Who Needs It!
The co-founder of Kayak.com explains why he prefers to hire travel industry virgins rather than people with more targeted experience. You have a position to fill and a bunch of resumes to look at. What's the first thing you scan for
Read More »The Band’s Ex-Tour Manager Blasts Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian, Kim Dotcom, The Kickstarter "Begging Bowl"
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian debated USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and former tour manager of The Band at our recent Innovation Uncensored event.
Read More »Reddit Cofounder, The Band’s Ex-Tour Manager Debate SOPA, Antipiracy, And Levon Helm’s Legacy [Video]
At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference, things got heated between Reddit and Y Combinator's Alexis Ohanian and USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, former tour manager of The Band, and friend of its drummer Levon Helm, who died the day after this debate. On Wednesday,
Read More »Skimmer’s Guide: The Wide Lens
Reviewing The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation, by Ron Adner. The book: The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation , by Ron Adner; Portfolio. The big idea: Invention used to be 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
Read More »How To Get From A Great Idea To Actual Innovation
There's a tendency for all of us to glorify the ideation process when in fact it's the reduction to practice that's perhaps more important, says Stephen Hoover, CEO of PARC, a Xerox company. What's the formula for moving from a great idea to actual implementation?
Read More »How To Plan Your Company’s End Game
Encyclopaedia Britannica , the 244-year-old company, recently announced it would stop printing encyclopedias. Of course this triggered a flurry of talk about the end of printed books, magazines, and newspapers and a once-great company humbled by shifts in technology
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