Posts in chronological order with tag strategy

Institutional innovation, Mark Twain and John Seely Brown

by David Burney August 19, 2010

If you’re a designer who thinks design deserves a ’seat at the table’ you have to love John Seely Brown— a design hero and sherpa for the 21st century.
His book The Power of Pull, co-written with John Hagel III, works off their recurring theme that “management practices and corporate institutions are fundamentally broken.” The sub-title—how [...]

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The grasshoppers’ revenge

by David Burney July 12, 2010

Creative people are different. They insist upon being different. And business leaders who believe innovation is truly strategic might consider adjusting their own world view of creative workforces in order to gain a competitive advantage.

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Trumping Innovation

by Art Seavey November 9, 2009

We can talk about creativity and innovation all day long, meld the culture, design the space, set up the infrastructure, and have a repeatable process for bringing ideas to market; but, the ultimate constraint and arbiter — making all other efforts useless — is the legal system. Monday, the Court heard Bilski v. Kappos, a case that brings business method patents to the forefront.

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