Innovation Insights
From the desk of Braden Kelley
February, 2009 - Vol 3, Issue 1
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| Greetings! |
2009 will be an exciting year with fantastic new challenges to keep things interesting.
If you find yourself in-between roles, I'm sure opportunity will show itself in the most unlikely of places. Innovation is all about seeing opportunity where others don't. If there is anything I can do to help you identify such an occasion, please let me know.
I am launching Extended Bench to assist major consulting firms be even more successful. This venture will be launching in Seattle, but looking to expand to other cities quickly. If anyone is interested in becoming involved, please reply. |
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| Gary Hamel - "Innovation in Rough Times" |
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I had the good fortune to attend Gary Hamel's webinar on "Innovation in Rough Times", and will now share some of the notes, quotes, and key insights I was able to capture.
Gary Hamel has been called the world's most influential business thinker by the Wall Street Journal, and his latest book, The Future of Management, was published by the Harvard Business School Press in October 2007 and was selected by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year. Gary Hamel was a founder of Strategos, which was acquired by UTEK in 2008.
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Building an Innovation Culture in Gaming
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I had the opportunity to attend the Brightidea Innovation Leaders "Birds of a Feather" Conference. The event was a peer-to-peer discussion on innovation management among innovation executives and managers at top global corporations. The conference provided a forum to exchange ideas and best practices on implementing innovation in large organizations, and there were presentations by WMS and Mentor Graphics. This is the first of a series of two articles highlighting the key takeaways from the two presentations, based on the notes I took at the event.
The WMS presentation was given by Shridhar Joshi, VP, Global Product Strategy, and Al Thomas, Executive Director, Advanced Game R&D.
WMS has sprung forth from the loins of Williams Bally Midway combination and its heritage of pinball machines to become the dominant player in the video slot machine business.
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My Experience with Cisco TelePresence
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I had the opportunity to experience a conference today using Cisco's TelePresence to connect four locations (New York, New Jersey, Seattle, and Silicon Valley) and Cisco's WebEx to connect scores more people on the internet. It was supposed to be five physical locations, but London got ten inches of snow overnight and so they did not join.
The conference ran for five hours and I must say that the high definition video ran flawlessly, and there were only minor glitches in getting people's computers synched up with the projector. The system seamlessly switched amongst the four locations on our three flat panels, based on who was talking, and the sound was crystal clear.
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Braden Kelley
Chief Innovation Officer
(206) 349-8931
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