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The Partnership Paradox: On GE’s 2012 Innovation Monitor
When surveyed 80% of top executives agree their organisations need to innovate differently and 86% say that partnerships and collaboration is the key to innovation. Yet – only 21% say they are...
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The CollaborativeEdge – Part One: The Paradox
Cap Gemini recently reported that over 80% of CEO’s they surveyed identified idea sharing as the single most important element of innovation – and yet only 16% said they had the right culture to do it....
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Simplicity Is The Ultimate Business Sophistication
A sensible maxim attributed to Leonardo da Vinci is ‘Simplicity, is the ultimate sophistication’. Its common sense wisdom is simple sophistication itself – as befits one of history’s greatest geniuses....
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Honesty And Cooperation In Business Relationships
The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” - Mark Twain. The simple logic of this famous line is the wise advice that good...
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Why Collaboration Is Not The Same
Good Things Happen When Ideas Connect. In April I wrote a piece identifying what I call the Collaboration Paradox: whilst senior marketers and CEO’s agree greater internal and external collaborative...
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Video: Stefan Lindegaard – Innovation Needs Networking & Connecting..
This is an excellent video of a recent presentation from Stefan Lindegaard in which he discusses how Open Innovation requires purposefully connecting and building the right networks. He points to the...
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Collaboration And Gamificaiton White Papers – PDF’s Available For Free Download
I was delighted to be a co-developer and contributor to the Challenge Series of white papers and discussions. The first two papers are now available to download as PDF’s from the main Benchstone...
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Can Innovators Put Their Faith In Social Media?
Are you a believer? Can social media help energise your innovation efforts? Or are you sceptical? Are you yet to be convinced? Can unified collaboration (UC) and other modern media tools become more...
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A Year of Blogging And Tweeting
My 2012 Tag Clouds from my blog and my Twitter feed show what has been colouring my conversations this year. From Collaboration to Partnerships from Innovation – by way of social media, super teams and...
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What Happened To The Office Of The Future? Ben Hammersley Speaking At The RSA
Does The Latest Technology And Modern Office Design Really Promote Better Collaboration? The founding editor of WIRED Magazine, Kevin Kelly, once said; ‘the problem of the future will not be that we...
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To Sell Is Human –So Does Collaboration Make Us Superhuman? Dan Pink, At The RSA
“Always be closing! A-I-D-A. Attention, Interest, Decision, Action. Attention — do I have your attention? Interest — are you interested? I know you are. You close! Or you hit the bricks!” - Blake,...
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On Mixing Creativity With Innovation : An Interview With Gordon Torr
“Today, reliability is no longer a key to competitive advantage. The organisations that will become the names of this century will be renowned for sustained, large-scale, efficient innovation.” - As...
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Book Review – A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger. Part One.
‘Why Don’t Companies Train People To Ask Questions?’ – Warren Berger This is just one of the many great questions that Berger raises in this wonderful book that should be essential reading to anyone...
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