Ignite Princeton – just days away

Picked up a great comment from Princeton Scoop here.
““Ignite” presenters share their personal and professional passions on life’s imponderables, improbables, and the decidedly offbeat, from orbiting garbage to the intersection between art and commerce. The whole thing sounds like it could be a tad overwhelming, but consider the event’s overarching theme: “Enlighten us, but make [...]

Innovation Economies & The Benefit Of Creative Destruction

Today innovation sits at the heart of economic value creation. If the 1980’s were all about productivity, the 1990’s were about quality, and the 2000’s about globalization, the current decade will most likely be about the capacity of organization to harness the controlled chaos inherent in innovation to create value. With the acceleration of globalization process, innovation is more and more seen as the appropriate tool to create business value.

Ignite Princeton – March 2nd – 7:00pm – Nassau Inn, Princeton NJ

What is Ignite?
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers. This is Princeton’s first Ignite Event.
Be there! It should be a fun night.
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Want to Improve Your Innovation Culture? – Start by understanding organizational culture

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don’t see it, but somehow it does something.
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
What is Organizational Culture?
At its most basic, organizational culture is reflects the “personality” of the organization. Culture is the combination of the held assumptions, espoused values, practiced norms and physical artifacts of organization members [...]

Framing for Accountability in Innovation for Twitter #innochat December 17 at Noon EST (USA)

Accountability – the currency of social innovation

This post is to trigger dialogue on innovation in the moderated Twitter #innochat on Thursday, December 17 at Noon, EST (USA) – all interested parties are welcome to join in. Follow #innochat to join at that time.
“The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an [...]

Eyes on the Prize – In a CoIN a flexible approach to changing conditions means more wins

In his fascinating research on collaborative innovation Peter Gloor, a Research Scientist at MIT’s Sloan School for Management Center for Collective Intelligence, identified a model he termed CoIN for, Collaborative Innovation Networks. He first named this model in the popular press in his book, Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks. His stated goal [...]

The Young and the Neuro – Implications for Organization Performance?

A recent David Brooks column in The New York Times highlights the rising impact of neuroscience on the way we perceive social psychology.
The series of studies and research investigations being done by members of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society isn’t dehumanizing at all, and it is leading to a host of revelations about how [...]

Review: Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit – Philadelphia, PA

As an opportunity to engage in dialogue with creative professionals from a multitude of backgrounds the Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit, hosted by Innovation Philadelphia and held this week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania achieved this over-arching objective quite handily. Even in the current economy, in which tradeshow and convention attendance has dropped dramatically (in some places [...]

Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit – Philadelphia, PA Oct 5-6

The Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit is Monday and Tuesday (Oct 5-6) at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA. The program looks great.
Program details here

Where Great Workplaces Start

From the Blog Where Great Workplaces Start – The Keys to Creating an Innovative Organization
Where Great Workplaces Start.
Research seems to suggest that there are two “entry-ways” towards innovation. Both opportunity and necessity/limited resources stimulate creativity. In fact, in addition to new opportunities that present themselves (such as new technology), pressing problems, necessities and distress [...]