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More Of The Top Articles From OSI
2008-02-15 06:09:00 My Top 25 Posts article worked very well, so here’s the next group. We’ll see how much traffic this on diverts. In the meantime, I’m going to be creating new permalinks for the Top 25 articles. Guerilla Product Placement BusinessWeek’s Top 100 Global Brand s A New Business Model For The Music Indus The Nature of Innovation Part ... More About: Branding , Articles , Creativity
Top 25 Viewed Posts On OSI
2008-02-08 22:26:00 This seems like a good way to get the transition started. Here are the top 25 most-viewed posts of all time, relinked to the new blog. A few of them I haven’t duplicated on the new blog, for one reason or another. Those links still point here. Enjoy! IC’s Familiar Quotations on Innovation Forty Uses For A Brick Electric ... More About: Business , Music , Branding , Creativity
The Joys Of Migrating To A New Server
2008-02-06 01:25:00 The migration is going OK so far. I solved the internal permalink problem with the help of a learned Wordpress guru. I also solved the contact form problem with the aid of a plug-in. The migration permalink problem is there to stay, I will just have to gut it out and redirect links manually. That said, ... More About: Innovation , Creativity , Server , Myers-Briggs
The Perils Of Migrating To A New Server
2008-02-03 04:02:00 I have begun the migration I posted about earlier this week. The new server works great, domain and email transition went flawless, the new theme kicks ass, and the Wordpress export executed fine. Plus, the selection of plug-ins is fabulous. However, there are a few niggles that will draw the transition out further. I am running ... More About: Innovation , Creativity , Server , Myers-Briggs
Changes Afoot At Open Source Innovation
2008-01-28 06:11:00 I am excited to announce some major changes to the blog in the upcoming weeks. More About: Open Source , Open , Source , Innovation , Creativity
Three Amazing Reports On The State Of Innovation - Part II
2008-01-28 05:29:00 In our first installment, the Boston Consultancy Group identified innovation trends via a survey of over 2400 senior level executives. In this installment, Booz-Allen-Hamilton studies the world’s largest R&D investors to determine what innovation strategies succeed. More About: Business , Branding , Innovation , Creativity , Amazing
Three Amazing Reports On The State Of Innovation - Part I
2008-01-22 05:00:00 In December, three international consultants published the results of their research on the current state of innovation. This four-part series will cover each in turn, then I’ll add a conclusion that ties them together. First on the block - Innovation 2007 from the Boston Consultancy Group. More About: Business , Branding , Creativity , Amazing
Unlimited Free Broadband Downloads!!
2008-01-17 03:24:00 That sounds a lot better than “Up to 17 hours of broadband downloads per month!” And when you can do it for the same price, you’ve entered The Long Tail. That’s what Netflix has discovered. More About: Business , Downloads , Broadband , Branding , Free
The End Of Tesla Motors??
2008-01-15 04:27:00 Tesla Motors . Everyone has been writing and posting nothing but glowing, positive articles about the present, and future, of this maverick automotive company. So naturally I’m a little shocked to relay this information: More About: Business , Branding , Tesla , Innovation
The Next Big Disruptive Innovation Platform
2008-01-08 05:19:00 This article in PC World describes Samsung’s two latest television prototypes that use an astounding new technology called organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). But the article is remarkable not for the new product but for the new disruptive platform it represents. More About: Business , Innovation , Creativity , Platform
Guerilla Product Placement
2007-12-29 07:50:00 I’ve been thinking about product placement ever since I saw “Transformers” a few months ago. I loved the way they took product placement to the next level. I mean, sure, they had plenty of traditional product placement, like the actors using this product or that. But the main gimmick, of course, was the use ... More About: Business , Branding , Product , Innovation , Creativity
Radiohead?s Publicity Stunt - Innovation or Deception?
2007-12-26 03:16:00 This month’s Wired Magazine features a David Byrne interview with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke to discuss Radiohead’s wildly successful ‘free’ downloading stunt. Since others insist on keeping this topic fresh, I’ll continue providing the counterpoint. Is Radiohead responsible for innovating the music industry business model, or merely deceiving gullible fans? ... More About: Business , Music , Branding , Publicity , Innovation
7 Christmas Gift Ideas For Your Favorite Innovator
2007-12-22 22:02:00 Software, games and books - here’s seven ideal gifts for the innovator on your shopping lists. More About: Christmas , Ideas , Business , Video Games , Branding
Making Money By Giving Stuff Away For Free
2007-12-20 04:00:00 Have you ever considered what you can get for practically free today that you used to pay a lot of money for? Computer Performance Long Distance Telephone Calls Computer Storage Bandwidth Music Web Server Space Domain Names What’s been the impact of the value of these commodities becoming almost “too cheap to meter?” It’s opened up opportunities in other areas, to sell ... More About: Business , Branding , Money , Free , Innovation
Try Out IBM?s Innovation Assessment Tool
2007-12-18 06:55:00 I found this cool innovation self-diagnostic at the IBM website that lets you assess your company’s innovation level against the results of their Global CEO Study 2006. It’s a nice strategic innovation tool that gives goals and objectives for instituting an effective innovation program in your company. More About: Business , Branding , Innovation , Tool , Creativity
Do You Know If You Don?t Know What You Don?t Know?
2007-12-16 07:57:00 Do you produce the best solutions possible? How do you solve an easy problem? Probably, based on your experience, the solution comes quickly. You solve it easily because of what you know. What happens, though, when you’re confronted with a problem outside of your experience? Chances are, you know SOME of the right stuff, but you don’t ... More About: Business , Branding , Innovation , Creativity , Brand
The Greatest Buzz Marketing Ploy Ever
2007-12-10 05:49:00 In the blogosphere we think of successful buzz/viral marketing as a post that generates a lot of hits or Diggs. I’d like to turn the tables a bit and discuss what I consider the most successful buzz marketing ploy ever as measured by another criterium - how much money it made. The buzz marketing ploy in ... More About: Marketing , Business , Buzz , Innovation , Creativity
How To Post Sketchcasts On Wordpress.com in 10 Easy Steps
2007-12-02 17:00:00 As you know if you’ve tried, you can’t directly embed the sketchcasts you create at sketchcast.com in your Wordpress .com blog. Fortunately, there’s an easy workaround that also gives you better quality, more versatile sketchcasts. More About: Post , Innovation , Creativity , Easy
Six Month Anniversary!
2007-11-30 19:28:00 Thanks for reading and helping my blog grow! I’ve tried to focus my postings on the different aspects of innovation - effectiveness, creativity, collaboration, products, etc. Let me know if you’d like to see new facets explored. I’ve enjoyed every minute of my young six-month blogging expedition, and hope to continue for years ... More About: Business , Religion , Music , Health , Branding
7 Levels Of Change (Part 9 of 9) - Bringing It All Together
2007-11-30 05:16:00 The last in a nine-part series on Rolf Smith’s 7 Levels of Change , I bring everything together and discuss how to put the 7 Levels to work. More About: Business , Branding , Innovation , Creativity
The Greatest Creative Thinking Game Ever
2007-11-26 05:41:00 Lo and behold, the greatest creative thinking game ever created has been released, and if you are trying to be a more creative thinker it should be on your hard drive right now, and you should have already played it several times through and learned all the tricks, and applied them metaphorically in your professional ... More About: Business , Creative , Video Games , Innovation , Game
A Car That Gets 300 Miles Per Gallon
2007-11-20 04:15:00 While A123Systems, Altairnano, and EESTOR are developing next generation high-performance batteries, car manufacturers are working hard to develop the perfect electric cars to exploit them. A company called Aptera now claims their latest prototype gets a whopping 300 miles per gallon fuel efficiency. But at what cost? More About: Business , Miles , Innovation , Allo
Has Solar Energy Finally Turned The Corner?
2007-11-17 07:25:00 The key to making a disruptive solar energy product is to overcome the high cost of the initial installation. Popular Science has awarded its Innovation of the Year award to a company who may well do that starting next year - Nanosolar. Let’s see if they can truly be disruptive. More About: Business , Branding , Energy , Solar , Creativity
Under Armour: Branding Juggernaut Pushes Customer Experience
2007-11-09 04:21:00 Over the past few years Under Armour has built an amazingly successful brand via their awesome sports-based ad campaigns. Now they’re moving into a new business area - retailing. And in doing so they are trying to master yet another form of innovation: customer experience. More About: Business , Branding , Customer , Innovation , Experience
7 Levels Of Change (Part 8 of 9) - Level 7: Doing Things That Can?t Be Done
2007-11-06 04:37:00 The eighth in a nine-part series on Rolf Smith’s 7 Levels of Change , I introduce the seventh level of change - Different (Doing Things That Can’t Be Done). More About: Business , Branding , Innovation , Creativity
An Industry In Search Of A Disruptive Business Model
2007-11-03 19:53:00 A few weeks ago I posted about Rick Rubin’s subscriber-based vision for the music industry. But a familiar company currently using this business model is abandoning it due to plummeting revenue. The company? More About: Business , Music , Industry , Search , Innovation
?Forty Uses For A Brick? - A Real World Example
2007-10-31 02:56:00 Back in September I posted an example of how to use creative thinking techniques to proliferate ideas. “Forty Uses For A Brick” became one of my most popular articles. I promised to give an example of how to apply these same techniques to a real-life problem. This is taken from an actual ... More About: Business , World , Innovation , Creativity , Real
How To Turn A ?Crazy Idea? Into A Revolutionary Solution
2007-10-29 01:43:00 I’ve added a new creative thinking tool to The Arsenal - “The Crazy Idea .” We’ll be putting it to use in the next installation of 7 Levels Of Change. To get free access to The Arsenal, go here. More About: Business , Branding , Innovation
Buffalo Wild Wings - Another Example of Innovation Effectiveness
2007-10-23 02:39:00 There is a Buffalo Wild Wings about 15 miles down the Interstate from me now. It opened about two months ago, in a rather large mall. There is also a well-established restaurant 3 miles from my house that specializes in wings. It has a more locally appealing flavor variety, the wings taste ... More About: Business , Branding , Innovation
7 Levels Of Change (Part 7 of 9) - Level 6: Doing Things No One Else Is Doi
More articles from this author:2007-10-22 04:47:00 The seventh in a nine-part series on Rolf Smith’s 7 Levels of Change , I introduce the sixth level of change - Different (Doing Things No One Else Is Doing). More About: Business , Branding , Innovation , Creativity 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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