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Stay Tuned…What is in the Hopper?
Quote from Scott Belsky – Author of Making Ideas Happen Hello friends, Been a few weeks since my last blog post and a number of you have asked why? First: An insane travel schedule around the globe and ProVoke speaking engagements, etc. And: I am intrigued, fascinated and at times equally frustrated about so many…
Big Data: To Understand Employees Better and Have a Stronger Company
Yesterday’s Sunday New York Times article in the technology sector titled : “Big Data trying to build better workers” – caught my eye, no doubt….Big data used internally to understand and improve the work force. Interesting concept. I totally agree with Google’s philosophy. I am deeply involved with helping individuals in large companies become more innovative…
Democratization of Innovation – Liberation of Patents for a Purpose
Fellow readers, this month GE announced that it will be opening up thousands (not thousands not hundreds) of patents from its library of 20,000 patents. First off, this liberation of IP (patents) is a huge forward move. Why? For decades, global companies have viewed their technical prowess, not in terms of new products and innovation…
Stop Gender Stereotyping!
One of my favorite morning rituals is to browse the papers in the early morning to catch up with what is going on and to be inspired! WSJ is one of standard papers I read. On top of the front page I read: Don’t be the office Tech Dinosaur (which makes sense as old pros…
"Get Out of Jail, Free" Cards
More and more I am seeing senior executives in large companies inspired and challenged by the task of ‘how to encourage staff’ to make deeper and bolder bets, choices and decisions. Ironically, I am seeing this in companies where top-down command and control would have not allowed us to have had this conversation before. The…
Caution: Let’s Not Confuse Lack of Invigoration/Inspiration with Lack of Innovation!
First let me come clean: • Yes, I love and am a big fan of big global companies (large enterprises) • Innovation is rampant and a regular occurrence in such companies • Innovation happens at many levels in large enterprises: brand new innovation and enhancements to existing products • Startups are fundamentally experimental, with good…