Author Archives: Stuart Miniman
Above is a Wordle of my notes from the 2-day BIF-6 summit. I’m not surprised to see that “people” is the largest word; because more than innovation or technology, it’s what people do that matters the most. Find Your Place The second day of the conference started with Richard Leider, Founder and Chairman of The Inventure Group, who has studied the power of purpose for 40 years. He looks at what makes people get out of bed in the morning. When the elderly are asked what they would do differently in their lives, it came down to three themes: 1) be more reflective, 2) take more risks (authenticity and voice), 3) understand own bottom line/what matters to me. Leider says that the two most important days in your life are the day that you are born and the day that you discover why you were born. “I arise in the … Continue reading
What happens when you pull together 200 people who are passionate about innovation, put a broad spectrum of storytellers in front of them and give them an intimate setting to interact? This is the idea of the 6th annual Collaborative Innovation Summit of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF-6 for short) at the intimate setting of the Trinity Rep Theatre in Providence, RI. Saul Kaplan started out the conference with a warning that “innovation” must not become a buzzword, or no one will be innovative. There were no silver bullets in the stories, but rather compelling unique perspectives on innovation, passion and ideas to help change the world. Dig Deeper Access to information is not a problem. As Fast Company founder Alan Webber stated, “Content isn’t King, Context is King”. Webber talked about the media industry and how news is in full retreat since information is becoming a …
Social Networking was well represented at the World Innovation Forum including discussion of Web 2.0 from former Amazon Chief Scientist Andreas Weigend, technology venture capitalist Brian Shawn Cohen and Twitter co-founder @Biz Stone. At events, I use Twitter for taking notes (I’ll quote a few in this post). RT @stephenshapiro: Biz stone from twitter on the stage. Surreal tweeting about twitter. #wif10 < surreal? no, flashback to 2008/9 5:36 PM Jun 8th via TweetDeck [I also wrote a few blog posts about Twitter in 2008/9, and here I am again writing about it] How do we innovate? There are many ways that companies can innovate including internal development, crowdsourcing, and through acquisition. Twitter has done all of these. Twitter started as a very simple tool – broadcasting 140-character messages sent via SMS (text) or web for the world to see. One of the most innovative things that Twitter did …
