Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by Doug Hall
Reading the front page of today’s USA Today business section I found that the key stories tell everything you need to know about innovation.
1. Suzuki has a new Car that “could lift the automaker out of obscurity in the USA”
• Lesson: The power of innovation to transform sales success
2. Linux Raps harder at company doors
• [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by Doug Hall
What a WICKED COOL Day. It’s not often that you get an e-mail just as you’ve landed at an airport – saying the White House just announced that a dream of your team and client (NIST/MEP)- The USA National Innovation Marketplace was important and valuable to the nation!
There are a ton of people who have [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Doug Hall
A conversation today with a top expert in the world of Open Innovation helped me understand why most open innovation efforts fail. He explained that most Open Innovation efforts are “Tech Mining” efforts at the end of the innovation process. Companies use open innovation tech mining to find a technical solution for an existing [...]
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Posted on June 14th, 2009 by Doug Hall
The benefits of Open Innovation or as I call it Open Collaboration between inventors, companies, brands, distributors are clear.
The hard data — companies that openly collaborate realize as much as a tripling of innovation success rates, 85% improvement in R&D output and a 50% reduction in capital spending (P&G results).
The challenge is today in most [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Doug Hall
An eight week study of employees from four companies found that when staff took a shower during the day they realized a 42% increase in productivity and a 33% increase in creativity. This is reported in the Globe and Mail.
Anyone got an idea why this might be the case?
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Posted on May 12th, 2009 by Doug Hall
Omnibalm Daily Foot Therapy is an example of using Academic Research to find a business of your own. It’s a great product for those who go barefoot – as I’m prone to do. It’s a real product that’s shipping. You can even buy it direct http://www.omnibalm.com/
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