How to be a social provocateur

As per Josh Bernoff, “Companies are like organisms with immune systems. If you’re a change agent, you’re the antigen. Your company wants to reject you, and it’s got lots of systems to block that – accounting systems, legal systems, management hierarchies, policies and procedures. Social applications and their champions run afoul of this all the [...]

Business, Social

A Master Inventor at Work

Some people might take the view that innovations happen by accident. I would argue against that. I would say that, in fact, most innovation happens in response to a particular problem that you need to solve. My name is Andy Stanford-Clark; I’m one of IBM’s Master Inventors. Centers of innovation like IBM at Hursley put [...]

Business, Innovation