Posts by Mari Anixter
Transport Challenge: Deutsche Bahn and Data Pitch ask startups to change the future of transport
German rail company, Deutsche Bahn AG, is making its data available to start-up businesses and SMEs as part of Data Pitch, a new European Commission-funded initiative which is supporting open innovation with data. Deadline for entrants is Oct. 1st.
Read More2017 Interbrand Breakthrough Brands [Report]
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40 brands, 7 trends, global insights: In this 2017 Interbrand Breakthrough Brands report, you’ll find the 40 startups and upstarts changing the world and discover the key trends they’re driving. Each brand’s growth trajectory is mapped in striking data-driven visualizations, and you’ll see where some of last year’s Breakthroughs are today. Global experts also weigh in on the unique challenges, growth opportunities, and rising brands in their regions.
Read MoreYour Phone is Trying to Control Your Life [Editor’s Choice]
Whether you’re killing time in line at Starbucks or scrolling through an endless meme stream on Twitter, your smartphone is trying to seduce you. Former Google employee Tristan Harris felt something needed to be done to combat tech designers’ relentless efforts to influence our behavior. Special correspondent Cat Wise talks to Harris as part of a collaboration with The Atlantic.
Read MoreIlluminating Collaborative Innovation: Sarah Miller Caldicott (1957-2017)
The innovation community has unexpectedly lost a dear friend, colleague, and collaborator. Sarah Miller Caldicott was a great-grandniece of Thomas Alva Edison and, in several books and insightful presentations, she illuminated Edison’s collaborative genius and further reignited his relevance today. Sarah Miller Caldicott (1957-2017) will be dearly missed.
Read MoreInnovating World Peace
A wish to our global community from Innovation Excellence!
Read MoreBooks as Tools: A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing is a compendium of best practices, advice and case studies from leading thinkers, commentators and practitioners edited by Paul Sloane. Chapters are written by an international team of eminent thinkers, writers and practitioners in the field, and covers the definition of open innovation, how to manage virtual teams and co-create with customers, how to overcome legal and IP issues and common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid.
Read MoreDigitally Disrupting the Life Insurance Industry
An In-depth interview with entrepreneur and industry disruptor, Yaron Ben-Zvi. In his words, “We’re targeting a customer who is expecting a digital experience and we ended up rethinking almost every component of the life insurance transaction.”
Read MoreDisrupTV: an innovation conversation with Deb Mills-Scofield, Paul Daugherty and Esteban Kolsky
DisruptTV hosts chat it up with Deborah Mills-Scofield (VC, Professor and Entrepreneur), Paul Daugherty (CTO of Accenture), and Esteban Kolsky, (Principal and Founder of ThinkJar). A lively and über-intelligent conversation that’s not to be missed.
Read MoreMax DePree: North America’s First CEO Design Thinker
The former CEO of Herman Miller, Max DePree said, “I’ve got so many MBAs, but what I need is a poet. Poets are the original systems thinkers.” This poetic mode is the critical perspective in a human-factor and design business—and Herman Miller is the most apt precursor in the Design Thinking revolution, so they knew the value of this holistic, poetic lens where anything can be better designed to better suit real people.
Read MoreCharting Change: A Visual Toolkit for Making Change Stick – Interview with Braden Kelley
An in-depth interview with author Braden Kelley about his newest book “Charting Change”. Braden is co-founder of Innovation Excellence and author of “Stoking your Innovation Bonfire”.
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