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Time For An Education System Makeover

Our educational system needs a makeover – not based on politics or standardized test scores but on what we know about how our brains work and how we learn. Continue reading →

Why the ‘most innovative companies’ aren’t

You may recognize their brands, but these admired companies have few practices in common that would distinguish them from the rest of the rabble.

How to Be a Highly Innovative Company

Innovation isn’t just one persons job. A highly innovative company makes innovation the norm throughout the organization, from top to bottom.Watch most organizations operate and you’ll find that innovation typically emerges from one of three sources:

Customer Lifecycle: Choose your customers first

It seems obvious, doesn’t it? Each cohort of customers has a particular worldview, a set of problems, a small possible set of solutions available. Each cohort has a price they’re willing to pay, a story they’re willing to hear, a

Choose your customers first

It seems obvious, doesn’t it? Each cohort of customers has a particular worldview, a set of problems, a small possible set of solutions available. Each cohort has a price they’re willing to pay, a story they’re willing to hear, a

Let the People Live-Stream?

Startup Koozoo wants us to join its streaming video network. I’m not convinced of its widespread utility, though.

Top 20 Innovation Articles – February 2013

Drum roll please At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our free Innovation Excellence Weekly magazi

Silicon Valley Is High on Innovation. And Pot – Businessweek

Being a computer coder takes a physical toll. The long hours sitting at a keyboard can cause back and wrist pain. You can run to a pharmacy and pick up some Advil, or if you’re in Silicon Valley, you can drop by the Palliative Health Center for som

Analysis: From builders to managers: educating China’s leadership

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Sun Zhengcai earned his PhD from China Agricultural University in 1997, experimenting with different fertilizers for crop rotation in northern China, according to his doctoral thesis.

Groupon Announces Leadership Change

Groupon , the global leader in local commerce, today announced a leadership change in which Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis have been appointed to the newly created Office of the Chief Executive, effective immediately,