Yes, You Can Innovate Like Google
The words “Google” and “Innovation” have been used numerous times in the last few years… and all of us undoubtedly admire “The Google Way”, their talent acquisition, management and retention strategies etc. However, we usually shy away from adoting a subset of those ideas, with the usual answer - “we’re different”. In this video, Tom Davenport describes how Google uses chaos to quickly [...]
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 [...]
Creative Intelligence
Intelligence is not all about cool gadgets and super-macho action figures. Infact, it’s a lot like the fight against mosquitoes. Jane Mayer talks with Eric Haseltine, the former chief technology officer of the U.S. intelligence community about how the right mixture of technology, mathematics and analytical skills have led to successful missions against terrorism, and what businesses can learn. About [...]
