Tag Archives: Business Models
In our digital world, social relations have become mediated by data. Without even realizing it, we’re barricading ourselves against strangeness — people and ideas that don’t fit the patterns of who we already know, what we already like and where we’ve already been. A call for technology to deliver us to what and who we need, even if it’s unfamiliar. Continue reading
Keith Yamashita is considered one of the most influential consultants in the world and one of our very favorite BIF Summit storytellers. He took the #BIF6 Summit stage with several questions: Is it really worth daring to be great? Watch his story and follow the inspiration at the #BIF9 Summit. Continue reading
If innovation seems like some mystifying, unfathomable task, these “Playing With Your Brain” exercises can take much of the mystery out of the process. Continue reading
Charles Darwin was on to something. Business innovation has a lot in common with his theory of evolution, about the origin of species. Continue reading
Who gets rewarded for innovating in your organization? Is it only those teams that manage to successfully carry an idea all the way through to a lucrative reality? What happens to teams that work on ideas that did not pan out? Continue reading
The startup Thumbtack hired a full-time chef a few years ago, and it transformed their business. It’s a great story of unintended business model innovation that we can learn from. Continue reading
Innovation, as a word, has become too big for its own good, and, as a word, is almost useless. Sure, it can be used to enable magical reinvention of business models and revolutionary products and technologies, but it can also be used to rationalize the rehash work we were going to do anyway. Continue reading
