Posts by Saul Kaplan
Converting Emerging Tech into Next Practices
Why do companies fail at turning emerging technologies into real value? Co-authors Saul Kaplan and Mia Dand look at the reasons why and share 8 key steps to explore, test, and commercialize next practices and new business models.
Read MoreInnovation Lessons from Michelangelo
Learning curve matters above all else. Michelangelo is my new innovation hero and Ancora Imparo is my new innovation mantra.
Read MoreBusiness Innovation Factory: Design Methodology, Next Practices, New Business Models
A successful business model is like a shark that must keep moving to stay alive. How do you make sure you’re not stuck in a crowded lane with declining margins, swimming upstream against disruptive currents, or even worse, find your organization dead in the water?
Read MoreSaul Kaplan’s Burning Platform
Famous last words: this time it’s different. No really, this time it is. We have arrived at that Malcolm Gladwell tipping point. Well, at least I have, and I don’t think I’m alone. Let me make it personal.
Read MoreAlan Webber on What's Wrong with the Way We Aspire to Success
This post is part of a series of conversations published on the Time website, authored by myself and Nicha Ratana, with transformational leaders who will be storytellers at the BIF10 Collaborative Innovation Summit in Providence, RI, on Sept. 17-18.
Read MoreIs Your CEO Serious About Innovation? 10 Questions to Ask.
It took me 25 years as a road warrior consultant, author, and accidental government bureaucrat to realize that proselytizing doesn’t work. If leaders don’t want to change, all the consulting jargon and fancy PowerPoints in the world won’t convince them to.
Read MoreThe #BIF9 Summit Preview
“#BIF9 carries a sense of homecoming, a reunion of sorts. The kind where all the crazy aunts and uncles gather, regaling us with tales of adventure and awe. Perhaps the family reunion metaphor is accurate; I believe that innovators are cut from the same DNA. We are insatiable optimists and see opportunity in everything.
Read MoreLet's Reframe Failure as Intentional Iteration
How will we get better if the fear of failure prevents us from trying anything new? How will we make progress on the big system challenges of our time, if every time someone tries something transformational and fails, we vilify them? What if we reframed failure as intentional iteration?
Read MoreTony Hsieh #BIF6 Summit: Zappos.com success story revealed
Tony Hsieh’s #BIF6 Summit talk is by far a very favorite summit story. With a desire to spend 10% of his time studying the structured elements of what makes all of us happy, Hsieh built Zappos.com around something that, for a certain group of people, just plain works.
Read MoreLara Lee #BIF8 Summit: Digging for the Future
Lee speaks Mandarin, rides a Harley, and has three Ivy League degrees. But, that’s not the only reason for why she is one of BIF’s most memorable Summit storytellers. As SVP, customer experience design for Lowe’s, Lee refuses to rely on superficial readings of big data, focus groups or piles of market research to reposition her clients. Instead, she dives into the basic human motivations that drive behavior.
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