Category: Video

Charming Princeton drop out Seth Prietbatsch gives us a quick lesson in game dynamics filled with user-friendly references (Happy Hour!) that can nudge us over to this compelling view of life, including the most prosaic, everyday tasks, as…a GAME. Which means, from an Innovation Excellence/Build Capability perspective that we better be cranking on that GAME LAYER if we want to make our products, services and experiences BETTER. And, yes, as one of the technocrati I just shared this with reminded me…the video is a whole year old (Thanks Melissa!) Don’t care. It’s as relevant (aka still missing) to every business I know as it was back in July 2010.

When I finally met Clayton Christensen last year, at the Tribeca Film Festival’s first annual Disruptive Innovation Awards, I was struck by how much he loves the world, and the way his work allows him to move through it, continuously learning and disrupting. Tell the truth. Isn’t that why most of us work in innovation. In this talk, “Christensen brings clarity to a muddled and chaotic world of education” according to fellow author Jim Collins Christensen. Think of this as a crash course in the business of learning from the uber disrupter and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution. According to recent studies in neuroscience, the way we learn doesn’t always match up with the way we are taught. If we hope to stay competitive-academically, economically, and technologically-we need to rethink our understanding of intelligence, reevaluate our educational system, and reinvigorate our commitment to learning. In other words, … Continue reading

I had the opportunity to interview Alec Bernstein, Senior Director, Strategy, Research, and Strategic Partnering for DesignworksUSA, at the Front End of Innovation USA 2011 conference in Boston, MA. In this video Alec talks about the role of design in innovation, visualizing the abstract, helping people imagine features that don’t exist and more. Right in the sweet spot of some of the necessary components of value translation in my value-centered innovation model. Interview – Alec Bernstein – BMW Designworks from Braden Kelley on Vimeo.

Featuring Jose Briones. Product innovation has been described as the way out of today’s difficult business environment. However, the rate of success of development projects, in particular white space or disruptive innovation projects remains too low. We believe that a reason for the low success rate is the erroneous application of methods designed for incremental innovation like Stage Gate to projects with high levels of uncertainty. In this presentation we will discuss the different types of development projects based on degree of uncertainty, and the creation of different project tracks. Projects are managed using different tool sets based on the best fit between information available and decision making needs.












