Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro
I just received a newsletter that had 10 wacky patents. Here’s my favorite: Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force: With this invention, the mother-to-be is strapped down to a table
I am in Copenhagen this week doing work with a client. Therefore, Alexander Kjerulf, I, and some others decided to put on a public seminar on personal innovation. I will be doing my “Innovation Personality
The other day I attended an event at Harvard about “Leadership and the Next President.” There were some big names in the audience and on stage. Today I am going to blog about one of
For those of you who were following he previous blog entries and are curious, here is the winning logo design. We are hoping to launch the new website next week.
On Wednesday I posted an open innovation dilemma. In summary, as I created my short-list of logos developed using an open innovation approach, certain designers decided to “build on” (plagiarize?) the concepts I liked. Although
As mentioned in my previous post, I decided to use open innovation for the development of a logo. OK, it is quite small scale, but I wanted to see the results. Here are two quick
In the past I have written several blog entries about the power of Open Innovation. The most robust open innovation website out there is InnoCentive. Yesterday I decided to try some open innovation for my
Although I have written about this many times before on this blog, we have created a formal article on “The Performance Paradox.” This is part of an eBook being published by 21 professional speakers. You
Personality Poker™ for Innovation – Taking orders now, shipping mid-July To order, go to our 24/7 Innovation Shopping Cart Personality Poker is a fast-paced, highly interactive game that helps employees (and individuals) understand how they
Coming June 1, 2008 I just heard from the lawyers this morning, and they gave me the green light to tell everyone about our newest product – “Personality Poker (TM).” We applied for both a
In audio, there is the concept of the “signal to noise” ratio. This is the ratio of a signal (what you want – such as the music) to the noise (what you don’t want –
I was quoted in today’s online edition of Forbes. Read the article, How to Unlock Your Company’s Creativity Also be sure to click on “In Pictures: Six Tips For Fostering Innovation At Your Company” I
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