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I spent a thoroughly enjoyable two days recently at the Open Innovation Forum in Baltimore. It had a packed agenda, including lots of opportunity to network and uncover the “state of the nation” of Open Innovation. My conclusion is that..

What can the rest of us hope to learn from some of the most innovative minds in our country today? It turns out quite a bit.

Lets look at Innovation, Crowdsourcing, and the United States Government for a minute... The world continues to move faster than ever and diplomatic responses from the United States are required that are both increasingly more complex and more urgent, and the required solutions must address the inherent situational challenges while also protecting the interests of the United States and its allies. To deal with this diplomatic reality, the United States State Department is...

Could defining jobs differently potentially take a big bite out of unemployment? The answer to that may actually lie in the crowd.

There is an incredible amount to be said for the small difference educators make daily in the lives of students and colleagues, but many of us don’t realize how easy it can be to expand that difference to a global scale. Countless organizations and individuals across the world are involved in an international education movement that brings communities and cultures together in the name of human progress.

Market leaders will not remain as market leaders without innovation. Communispace is an example of a firm that created a market and became the 800 lb. gorilla, and continued to look for ways to improve itself to maintain its dominant position.

The truth is that disruption has little to do with individuals, but is primarily a function of networks and, if we are to deal with disruption, it is the unseen connections we need to understand.

Reality is basically a series of assumptions we make about the world around us. Most of those assumptions are safe and sensible. Indeed, if you were to question every assumption all day long, you'd soon go mad. However, some assumptions are not reliable, either because they are based on misunderstandings or because the bases of those assumptions have changed. For instance..

If, as George Carlin said, "An artist has an obligation to be en route." Please complete this sentence: An innovator has an obligation to...

The innovation dilemma is that most organisations are not set up to innovate, to make the decisions or to promote the behaviours, which an innovation ecosystem requires.