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The Innovation Expedition: A book review by Bob Morris

October 14, 2013

The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation Gijs van Wulfen provides BIS Publishers (2013) Just about everything you need to know about how to establish and then sustain an innovation culture By the time I began to read…

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The strategic yardstick you can’t afford to ignore

October 14, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article by Chris Bradley, Angus Dawson, and Sven Smit for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, they discuss a systematic scan of the economic-profit performance of nearly 3,000 global companies…

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Solving Problems with Design Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

October 13, 2013

Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett Columbia Business School Publishing (2013) Here’s a blueprint “for deploying design thinking across levels and functions in order to embed a more creative…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 10/7/13)

October 13, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett The Multiplier Effect: Tapping…

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The Multiplier Effect: A book review by Bob Morris

October 12, 2013

The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools Liz Wiseman, Lois Allen, and Elise Porter Corwin/A Sage Company (2013) How and why a Multiplier environment — with efficient systems — can unlock human potential In Multipliers: How the Best…

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What’s New in Innovation Education? Jazz, for One Thing

October 12, 2013

Here’s an excerpt from an article by Melissa Korn for the Wall Street Journal in which she explains how and why innovation education is getting innovative at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Its innovation program looks at how ideas are…

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Urban world: The shifting global business landscape

October 11, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Richard Dobbs, Jaana Remes, Sven Smit, James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, and Yaw Agyenim-Boateng, featured online by McKinsey & Company. Emerging markets are changing where and how the world does business. For…

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Gary Klein: An interview by Bob Morris

October 11, 2013

Gary Klein, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist at MacroCognition, LLC. He was instrumental in founding the field of Naturalistic Decision Making. 
He developed a Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model to describe how people actually make decisions in natural settings. He also…

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George Saunders’ moving commencement speech at Syracuse University goes viral

October 10, 2013

George Saunders (Class of ’88), professor of English and author of The New York Times best-seller Tenth of December (Random House, 2013), delivered the commencement speech at The College of Arts and Sciences’ undergraduate convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 11,…

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