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A Problem-Solver's Guide to Copycatting

Instead, look for the folks who have already solved them.READ»

Annette Lode
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Potential Customers Are Just Driving By, It’s a Doggone Shame!

If you’re like me (most people are not), you have two children – plus one on the way, three cats and two dogs. Whew! With all of that chaos under one roof, it’s incredibly important that the kids play by the rules, the cats ... ...READ»

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Nonsense At Work

Seeing differently creates dreams: Where do big dreams come from? I don’t know. But I do know that big dreams come through inspiration. Inspiration is a sudden, brilliant, original idea. And original ideas come from seeing ...READ»

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Corporate Creation Myths, and Why We Need Them

Why do Americans need to attach creation myths to everything, including the origins of our most visible business ventures? We idealize the lone inventor over the company man, the garage over the office space. We tell the story of ...READ»

CREATIVITY   |  Comment

Fast Company review of In Pursuit of Elegance: Why The Best Ideas Have Something Missing

FC Expert Blogger Seth Kahan (Leading Change) has posted this review of my new book. http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/seth-kahan/leading-change/pursuit-eleganceREAD»

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Highlights From the PSFK Conference [video]

The PSFK Conference just wrapped last month in New York, and a couple of standout talks have made their way to the web. One poses the question: Is a woman in romantic love with the Berlin Wall really so different from you and me? ...READ»

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FC Tweetstream: Has the Web Made It Too Easy to Steal Ideas, and Wait, Do Ideas Even Matter?

We often engage in conversations with our readers on Twitter. Our most recent discussion centered on the future of ideas, whether ides even matter, and when it comes to ideas vs. execution, which one is more important. Follow the ...READ»

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The 99% Conference: How to Make Ideas Happen

"The most important thing I learned in grad school is that there are no new ideas, just great executions. At Cool Hunting this is one of our underlying editorial principles. Being in the business of helping creative people get ...READ»

Leading the Way Out of this Economic -- and Ethical -- Mess

I'm looking for any sign I can find that we're in recovery -- not only that the economy is turning around, but that the mindset that led us into this mess is shifting. I found a good one. The chief learning officer of ...READ»

FedPitch 2009

Have you ever wanted a say in improving your government's workforce? READ»

Annette Lode
IDEAS   |  Comment

Ideas Are the Best Stimulus Package

With governments around the world shoveling money out of pubic treasuries in the hopes of stimulating their economies, how about summoning a modicum of creativity to build better mousetraps that consumers might actually want to buy? I mean even at 10% unemployment, that means 90% of the population still has a job and is buying stuff. If we can come up with a few good ideas, we can put people to work making things and, hopefully, sell a few more widgets at home and abroad.READ»

CREATIVITY   |  Comment

Creating Quick Prototypes: An Elicitation Tool for Obtaining Product Requirements

One of the most important goals of elicitation is to find out what concerns need to be solved through system boundary identification. A key development tool that can tremendously help in this “capturing good requirements” endeavor ...READ»

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How to Cut Costs Strategically...

"What are you doing to contain or cut costs to get through 2009?" I was a blind-copy recipient of this question in an email from a colleague the other day. It came with the promise that answers would be shared anonymously among those ...READ»

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Design for a Difference at TED

TED Fellow Tino Chow blogging about his experience at the famous TED Talks.READ»

CREATIVITY   |  Comment

System Modeling: A Design Methodology for Capturing Product Features and Functions

A critical step in Requirements Engineering is the ability to capture a new product’s features and functions. The criticality of this step is based on not creating GIGO (Garbage-In- Garbage Out) of the intended product’s ...READ»

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Cost-saving Start-up Tips From our Caveman Ancestors

Why can't all businesses benefit from MBE-bartering? A few tips and suggestions that our Cavemen ancestors might make us go, "Durrrr!"READ»

CREATIVITY   |  Comment

Goal-Oriented Requirements: Key to Developing Quality Products

The old computer adage “Garbage –In- Garbage Out (GIGO) is quite true when developing new consumer products. One of the key reasons new products fail in the marketplace is because of bad feature/function set requirements presented ...READ»

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A unique and original way to propose marriage

Tired of the typical marriage proposals? Try something different -- with a Russian twists!READ»

CREATIVITY   |  Comment

Innovation 3.0: Focus on releasing everyone's potential

I'm a innovation consultant from Buenos Aires, Argentina.   Recently, my proposal for writing a manifesto in Changethis.com has been accepted and the manifesto proposal is titled: "Innovation 3.0: Focus on releasing ...READ»

innovation = collaboration + creativity, but how build collaborative practices?

Hi, I am managing a programme called Alstom collaborative Way. I’d like to get a dialogue about it. Today, tools exist for and success stories are already starting to come through. Today the next steps is to manage ...READ»

Need to Name Fast Company Call-In Unidentified Speakers

  To all those who participated in the Fast Company, Technology Group Call-In: Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings? I’m working on the transcript with the aid and assistance of Sherri Smith of ...READ»

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Innovation and the Obama Presidency

During his presidential campaign, President-elect Obama was quoted as saying, “America risks being left behind in the global economy: Revolutionary advances in information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other fields ...READ»

Our Lives Just Changed. Forever. And For The Better.

Obama wins. America gets a new service innovation capability. It took only seconds after McCain's concession last night for e-mails to start arriving from Brazil, Malaysia, and Europe. The most significant one, in my opinion, ...READ»

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PerfSpot.com and OpenSocial: FriendVouch http://www.friendvouch.com

It is my pleasure to share with you our new development. PerfSpot is launching new development - FriendVouch..  With 25 million members on PerfSpot.com and 4 billion monthly ad impressions on our Spot200 network, PerfSpot.com is in ...READ»

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How Do We Boost Those Much Needed R&D Dollars?

I just read a blog on WashingtonPost.com that essentially says that a business is doomed to failure if it cannot be on the cutting edge of innovation. And there is no bigger source of innovation than the ideas, products, and designs ...READ»

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