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A Lateral Music Album

Destination Innovation

It was founded in 2011 by Jack Stratton. They called the idea a ‘clever stunt’ and paid the royalties due but they pulled the album after seven weeks and then changed their terms of service. Vulfpeck is an American funk band based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The problem was that they had no money to fund the costs of the tour.

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A Lateral Way to Expose War Crimes and Fight Disinformation

Destination Innovation

The English journalist and blogger, Eliot Higgins, became interested in open source methods in 2011 when he wanted to authenticate video clips from war zones and crime sites. Bellingcat has received many awards and honours and it has changed how news and intelligence agencies gather and verify stories using OSINT methods.

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Overcome the Customer’s Concern – Transfer the Risk

Destination Innovation

If you find that you cannot make your payment because of a covered life changing event, we’ll allow you to return your vehicle and walk away from your loan obligation”. Source Automotive News May 2011 ). The promotion was a success. Only 350 customers returned their vehicles. percent to 4.6 percent over that time.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

He created a sense of urgency to undertake the changes ahead. As recently as 2011 90% of Lego’s users were boys. The father of four told his colleagues, “We are on a burning platform. We’re running out of cash… and likely won’t survive.” Lego focused on its core business first. Study the user in action.

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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

The incredible cynicism and incompetence of Yanukovych’s rule stoked a desire to change direction. We have wars raging, authoritarian regimes on the rise, deep challenges posed by climate change, and the need to regulate our technology, especially, but not only, artificial intelligence. Yet that wasn’t the end of the story. We can too.

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

A 2010 study showed that children see more value in creatively changing an object than other changes, and this effect is much more powerful than in adults. However, another 2016 study shows it is not clear if simply engaging in pretend play leads to higher creativity as an adult.

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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them. If we can’t adapt to changing times, we simply struggle to survive, that is the growing reality operating in today’s environment. We hear far too much about the need to transform and change.

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