Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2022

GUEST POST from Greg Satell It’s hard to find anyone who wouldn’t agree that Microsoft’s 2001 antitrust case was a disaster for the company. Not only did it lose the case, but it wasted time, money and—perhaps most importantly—focus on … Continue reading →

Innovation 84

Innovation Company Open Innovation Collaboration 84

Sopheon

JANUARY 12, 2023

And in my career, I have witnessed and been professionally involved in five: ● The Iran/Energy Crisis Recession (July 1981 - November 1982) ● The Gulf War Recession (July 1990 - March 1991) ● The 9/11 Recession (March 2001 - November 2001) ● The Great Recession (December 2007- June 2009) ● The Pandemic Recession (March-April 2020) Having spent 40 years (..)

Management 52

Management 52

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A 2001 study also showed that people who have already made a decision (so have a set view or opinion on a subject) will seek out information which confirms this view. Some people have likened confirmation bias to a sort of “Yes-Man” of the brain, which wants to agree with the prevailing opinion in the brain.

Data 238

Data Course Disruption Study 238

Destination Innovation

AUGUST 2, 2020

In 2001 two musicians, Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tambrello, wanted to collaborate on some new compositions. Gibbard and Tamborello. The problem was that they lived hundreds of miles apart at opposite ends of America’s west coast. So Tamborello composed some rhythms (or ‘beats’) and sent them to Gibbard on CD by post.

Brainstorming 346

Brainstorming Conference Innovation Groups 346

Idea to Value

JANUARY 10, 2022

In 2001, summarising years of seeing this activity across experiments, Marcus Raichle coined these active regions as the brain’s default mode network. The scientists found that even while a person is resting and not thinking of anything in particular, their brain is still highly active. There is some “default” activity.

Creativity 246

Creativity Engagement Study Examples 246

Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001 as a web-based, free encyclopaedia. In the 1990s Microsoft launched a CD-Rom product, Encarta, which was nowhere near as accurate or as comprehensive as Encyclopedia Britannica, but it was very cheap and it included a search function.

Policies 198

Policies Marketing Company Innovation 198

IdeaScale

MAY 12, 2021

And until 2001, that was it. When Apple did debut a new product in October 2001, it was completely outside those categories as well: It was the iPod, a personal music player that worked with Macs. Those four product categories were the only ones Apple sold in, with the iBook, iMac, G3 Mac, and MacBook.

Innovation 130

Innovation Industry Design Learning 130

Beyond the Obvious

AUGUST 10, 2018

I started writing the Killer Questions when I was in my short-lived “retirement” early in 2001. As I relaxed in the Virginian countryside, my mind started to flash back to various experiences I’d had during my working life. Over the course of the preceding twenty years I’d seen dozens of highly innovative products and ideas […].

Course 76

Course Innovation 76

IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

First launched in October 2001, Apple ‘s portable music device has revolutionised how we all listen to and download music. This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001. Take the iPod for example.

Underperforming Technical Team 124

Underperforming Technical Team How To Crowdsourcing Technical Review 124

Acuvate

MAY 29, 2020

Since its launch in 2001, SharePoint has undergone significant transformations and upgrades and so did the intranets based on it. Building A Modern SharePoint Intranet with The Best of Microsoft Technologies For the last two decades, SharePoint has been a common platform for most intranets used in large, medium and small enterprises.

Technology 52

Technology Strategy Strategy 52

Innovation Excellence

MAY 31, 2019

I graduated from college in 2001. David Bruel – Marketing, as we learned it, is dead. We were Kings. If you wanted to learn Marketing at that time, you had two options: join a consultancy firm or work in FMCG, ideally in the food industry. I had the privilege to be selected by one.

Marketing 63

Marketing Industry Learning 63

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

According to an analysis of hundreds of research papers in 2001 , the researchers came to the conclusion that our brain has evolved to be more attuned and focused on negative potential events than positive ones. events, objects, personal traits) than positive ones. Why is this? The title of this paper: Bad is stronger than good.

Examples 273

Examples Analysis Learning Design 273

Stephen Shapiro

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Although I have published books as far back as 2001 (with an even earlier one from 1996 when I was at Accenture), I am always learning something new. Given my last post about my next book generated so much interest, I’ve decided to document my journey here in the hopes that it benefits others. This is book number 7.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software System Strategy 52

Beyond the Obvious

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In 2001 Apple’s sales figures were in decline. So, how do you determine where you, as an individual or a business, will be in five years? You can’t say where exactly you’re going because you can’t predict what’s going to happen in the world. However, you can challenge yourself to change. The company had yet […].

Change 57

Change Company 57

Carla Johnson

MAY 15, 2020

May 14, 2020 It was early 2001. The dot-com-boom had taken people on a Thelma-and-Louise ride and sailed them off a cliff. Enron’s crazy accounting debacle ended up in the largest corporate bankruptcy (until WorldCom out did it a year later).

Marketing 51

Marketing 51

Xplaner

JUNE 2, 2015

In 2001 XPLANE created an infographic visualizing the e-Business ecosystem which was one of the most downloaded things on their site. I’m still proud of this diagram and it is still valid today. Download the e-Business Ecosystem (PDF).

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Beyond the Obvious

JUNE 29, 2018

I started collecting the Killer Questions when I was in my short-lived “retirement” early in 2001. As I relaxed in the Virginian countryside, my mind started to flash back to various experiences I’d had during my working life.

Course 51

Course Innovation 51

IdeaScale

JULY 27, 2017

How did Napster, which enjoyed a brief moment of popularity in 2001, back when broadband was limited mostly to colleges, kill a $14 billion industry? If you listen to music industry executives, piracy killed the music industry. But if you think about it, does that really explain what happened? The real answer is that piracy didn’t.

Technical Review 186

Technical Review Case Study Video Innovation 186

Innocentive

AUGUST 24, 2016

InnoCentive became an official entity in 2001 and during the intervening fifteen years has posted over 2,000 Challenges and awarded nearly $20million. Starting as a brainwave in 1998, InnoCentive spent three years being scoped, explored and tested whilst within the walls of pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly.

Company 74

Company Innovation 74

Innovation Excellence

MARCH 17, 2018

From about the mid-nineties through 2001, the landscape was littered with crazy speculation, business plans scratched out on cocktail napkins, and venture capital being pushed to where it never should have been. The dotcom boom never really went away. The bursting of the dotcom bubble didn’t put an end to dotcoms. It put an end.

Culture 48

Culture Innovation 48

Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Kodak entered the digital camera market late but by 2001 they were number 2 in the USA behind Sony. Between 1982 and 2001 Kodak spent more than $20 billion on R&D averaging about 6% of revenues. They could see the digital trend from well off and they tried a number of different and initially appealing ways to tackle the problem.

Disruption 100

Disruption Marketing Examples Trends 100

Destination Innovation

JULY 12, 2018

McLean died in New York in 2001. Nowadays people across the globe enjoy the benefits of cheap products made far away – cars, toys, electronic goods, clothes and appliances. They are all shipped in containers and using the systems that Malcom McLean developed. Forbes Magazine called him, “one of the few men who changed the world.”

System 205

System Design Company Change 205

Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2017

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp joined in 2001 and was promoted to CEO three years later at the age of 36. There are many books and studies describing the company’s approach. Here we try to compress all the myriad comments and analyses into a few transferable lessons. They appointed a new CEO.

Innovation 184

Innovation Video Study Culture 184

CMOE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The current generations in the workplace include: Silent Generation Born between 1925 and 1945 Baby Boomers Born between 1946 and 1964 Generation X (Gen X) Born between 1965 and 1980 Millennials Born between 1981 and 2000 Generation Z (Gen Z) Born between 2001 and 2020 Each of these generations have stereotypes and assumptions about their priorities (..)

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategy Leadership Technical Review 59

Wellspring

AUGUST 30, 2017

Since 2001, 52% of the Fortune 500 has disappeared. Every organization and large company faces an existential threat from upstart competitors, changing consumer preferences, and emerging technologies. Furthermore, since 1955, the average lifespan of the Fortune 500 company has decreased from 75 to 15 years.

Innovation Programs 40

Innovation Programs Disruption Technology Innovation 40

Michael Roberto

MARCH 18, 2022

2001, Rozin and Royzman 2001). Qualitative comments accompanying the evaluators’ decisions to adjust their scores suggest that, as a result of exposures to critical information, evaluators devoted greater attention to evaluation-criteria-specific tasks, such as scrutinizing the proposal for critiques and weaknesses.

Project 26

Project Resources Disruption Management 26

Innocentive

DECEMBER 19, 2017

When InnoCentive launched in 2001, it was in a context very different from today.

Open Innovation 46

Open Innovation Innovation 46

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

2001 promised a journey by an intelligent AI and astronauts to Jupiter. Even then there will be a significant human component to understand and place the disruptive opportunity into context. Fifty years ago we were promised individual jet packs and residence on the moon by the year 2000.

Big Data 170

Big Data Data Artificial Inteligence Innovation 170

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2017

When scientists decoded the human genome in 2001, they found something astounding. While our DNA provides the blueprint for everything about us—from how we develop in the womb to eye color and personality traits—it takes only 20,000 genes to do so, less than one fifth of what had previously been thought. What was even more mindblowing.

Project 40

Project Leadership Innovation 40

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2016

WCIW started in response to a 2001 Canadian newspaper headline to open people’s minds and hearts to the notion that everyone has the capacity to make a creative difference in their lives and and others’ It begins.

Creativity 40

Creativity Innovation Tools 40

Carla Johnson

MAY 15, 2020

May 14, 2020 It was early 2001. The dot-com-boom had taken people on a Thelma-and-Louise ride and sailed them off a cliff. Enron’s crazy accounting debacle ended up in the largest corporate bankruptcy (until WorldCom out did it a year later).

Marketing 26

Marketing 26

Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

In 2001, business writer Jim Collins published his touchstone book “Good to Great” and brought the Hedgehog and the Fox concept to the business world. Because of this they are scattered in their planning and execution.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Tools Competition 100

IdeaScale

JUNE 1, 2021

Shark Tank has been around in some form or another since 2001, with the Japanese series “Money Tigers.” Yet the basic concept is simple: entrepreneurs pitch their idea to a panel of investors, who will pick their idea apart before deciding whether or not to invest.

Learning 130

Learning Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Strategy 130

Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In 2001 Dr. Pronovost borrowed a concept from the aviation industry: a checklist, the kind that pilots use to clear their planes for takeoff. Peter Pronovost, a critical care specialist at the Johns Hopkins medical center in Baltimore, thought he knew how to minimize human error.

Engagement 98

Engagement Creativity Industry Examples 98

Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Apple began its stunning transformation with the iPod in 2001, during the darkest days after the Internet bubble burst. As Apple has proven to the world, a robust innovation pipeline is the key to success, regardless of the economic environment. And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn.

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Innovation LEAN Resources 59

IdeaScale

AUGUST 18, 2021

So it seemingly made sense, in 2001, to create a second football league to offer people more football, differentiating itself from the NFL with different rules, scantier clad cheerleaders, and edgy names and logos. The Concorde turned out to be a solution in search of a problem. Football has been among the top-rated TV programs for decades.

Company 130

Company eBook Innovation Marketing 130

Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

On April 17, 2001, he made what became an infamous comment during a conference call with financial analysts. The idea was highly unpopular with employees but Gyllenhammar was deaf to complaints. When the merger failed he had to resign. Much worse was Jeffrey Skilling, CEO of Enron.

Conference 100

Conference Policies Report Strategy 100