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Thoughts on Innovation
How a World-Class Inventor and Innovator Thinks About Innovation
by Olof SöderblomWhat can you learn from a true innovator? A lot! Olof Söderblom, a world-class innovator whose inventions, such as Token Ring networking, have transformed industries, presents his thoughts on invention and innovation. -
Confessions of a Groupon Addict
Great for Customers, but Merchants Beware!
by Ronni MarshakGroupon, the fastest growing company ever, offers a great experience on daily discount deals to customers. However, merchants who don’t think through their Groupon marketing strategy carefully can have disastrous results. -
Bootstrapping Innovation
Leveraging the Collective IQ to Achieve Powerful Results
by Ronni MarshakThe Doug Engelbart Institute's Bootstrapping Innovation system provides a structure for empowering people to solve complex problems together. -
AIP UniPHY: Creating a Professional Social Network
How the American Institute of Physics Is Creating Value Add for Its Members
by Patricia SeyboldHow do you build a social network for professionals? The American Institute of Physics is paving the way by pre-populating the profiles and network connections of physics experts based on the research papers these experts have co-authored. -
Innovation in Education: School Children Improve Their Families' Livelihoods
At URDT, It Takes a Child to Raise a Village
by Patricia SeyboldWhy not educate children to become masterful in envisioning and creating a better life for themselves and their families? That’s the innovative approach to education that URDT has been practicing for almost a decade. -
Local Motors
Reinventing the Car Industry from the Outside In
by Patricia SeyboldLocal Motors is a new American car company with an innovative approach: get customers to design cars, manufacture them locally, and let customers help assemble their own cars Build-A-Bear style! -
Nature Reinvents Textbooks
Scitable: A NextGen Ecosystem for Learning & Teaching Science
by Patricia SeyboldNature Education has an innovative replacement for college textbooks. It’s an online resource and classroom with a network of subject matter experts. And it’s free to students and faculty. -
How Visionary Customer-Centric Execs Keep Innovation Alive
Take-Aways from Patty’s Visionaries' Spring 2009 Meeting
by Patricia SeyboldHow do Visionary Customer-centric Execs deal with the recession? By continuing to innovate! -
Green Infrastructure
If We Build It, Will They Use It?
by Patricia SeyboldWhere is urban transportation going? Mobility on demand using green approaches is the next wave. -
Smart Transportation: Mobility-on-Demand
A Vision for CityCars and Smart Cities from MIT Media Lab's Smart Cities' Group
by Patricia SeyboldMIT Media Labs' Smart Cities' program is working on projects to reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse gases by offering "mobility-on-demand" through a combination of mass transit and electric vehicle-sharing. -
How Keds Uses Zazzle's Customization
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldKeds is giving customers the ability to put their own designs on their sneakers by taking advantage of Zazzle.com. Zazzle is a customer-centric ecosystem that lets customers create their own designs to products and then buy or resell their creations. -
What Are Visionary Customer-Centric Execs Thinking About?
Engaging with Customers to Innovate, Solve Problems, and Keep their Brands Focused on Customers' Goals
by Patricia SeyboldPatty’s Visionaries are the leading customer-centric executives who are transforming their companies (and their industries) from the outside in. This is an overview of some of the topics they discussed in their Spring 2008 meeting. -
Using Business Process Management to Streamline Litigation Discovery
Supporting Collaborative Litigation Discovery with Exterro Fusion at Fredrikson and Byron, P.A. - An Interview with Chad Papenfuss, Litigation Support Administrator
by Ronni MarshakIn response to clients’ demands that they pay for professional services, not administrivia, the law firm of Fredrikson and Byron, P.A. streamlines the discovery process using Exterro Fusion. -
Customer Co-Design in Rural Uganda
How URDT Empowers Grass Roots Creativity
by Patricia SeyboldSee how the URDT worked with Ugandan villagers to tackle issues of rural development. The approach they took is one that can be applicable for your organization as it works with customers to create innovative solutions. -
A Coordinated Game Plan for Business and IT Execs to Spur Outside Innovation
Five Initiatives to Support Customer Innovation
by Patricia SeyboldTo make rapid progress in enabling and empowering your customers to lead you toward new innovations, you need to coordinate your business strategy and your IT efforts. -
Asterisk and Digium
Shaking Up the Telecom Industry by Harnessing Customers’ Creativity
by Patricia SeyboldThe Digium/Asterisk story provides a good example of one way to build a viable for-profit business leveraging the open-source model while fostering customer-led innovation. -
What Business Models Work in an Open Source World?
Cohesive Financial Technologies: How a Software Start-Up Thinks through Its Options
by Patricia SeyboldHow does open source work as part of a business model? A start-up company explains how to think through the different dimensions of open source. -
Zopa Case Study: How Zopa Is Creating a New Financial Services Exchange
Peer-to-Peer Lending and Borrowing for “Freeformers”
by Patricia SeyboldHere’s a description of what the Zopa team did to meet their target audiences’ key scenarios and to design their business once they clearly understood those scenarios. -
Getty Images
Making It Easy for Image-Buying Professionals to Do Their Jobs
by Ronni MarshakGetty Images supports image-buying professionals in finding and licensing stock imagery and film for commercial use. -
Democratizing Innovation
Von Hippel’s New Book Stresses the Importance of Innovation by Lead Users
by Patricia SeyboldEric von Hippel’s book, Democratizing Innovation, describes how to harness the inventiveness of your lead users to create breakthrough products.
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