Innovation Insights
From the desk of Braden Kelley
February 2010 - Vol 4, Issue 1
In This Issue
Apple's Hidden Disruptive Innovation
Top Tweets from Twitter
Balancing Intuition with Analysis
Innovation Perspectives - Educating Tomorrow's Workforce
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Apple's Hidden Disruptive Innovation
 
Apple's iPad Data Plans
People often think that disruptive innovation happens overnight, but often it happens one step at a time. Before the iPod was an innovation, Apple had to not only launch the device, but also the iTunes Store for music, and the Microsft Windows version of iTunes. Apple also expanded the iTunes Store to include audiobooks, movies, and television, but by then...
 
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Top Tweets from @innovate on Twitter
 
Top Tweets from @Innovate on TwitterTweet #1 - Top 10 Innovation Articles of 2009 - http://ow.ly/12lpy 
Tweet #2 - Innovation Perspectives - January Wrapup - http://ow.ly/12lnj
Tweet #3
- Three Enterprise 2.0 Themes to Watch in 2010 - http://ow.ly/12lqI
Tweet #4 - Who Should Be Driving Social Media? - http://ow.ly/12ltH
 
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Balancing Intuition with Analysis
 
Roger Martin I had the opportunity to interview Roger Martin, the author of "The Design of Business" about the challenges companies face when they fail to balance analytical thinking with intuitive thinking. We also discuss a variety of other innovation topics including: barriers to innovation, education, and risk taking.
 
 
Innovation Perspectives - Educating Tomorrow's Workforce
 
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"We need our children to be Masters of Mystery and Einsteins of Insight."
 
Instead of pursuing the current education mantra of more, better, faster, we need to instead rethink how we educate our children because we need to prepare them for a different world. A world in which flexibility, adaptibility, creativity, and problem solving will be prized ahead of the deep technical knowledge that is fast becoming a commodity and easily available.
 
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