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July 18 2011
Creating Really Big Things – or how I stopped worrying and learned to love co-creation.
David Ritter from Innocentive had some great ideas to share at the PDMA CoCreation conference. Here is a quick recap of the points he was making in relation to creating really big things: Many companies are demanding “breakthroughs” not incremental improvements or changes at a much faster pace. People are being measured on their ability to create “Breakthroughs”. So where do innovative breakthroughs come from? They come from people. And people need certain things to be successful. First, they need a company culture that makes room for innovation. You can have the…
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July 11 2011
Cocreating Value – do it or your customers will with someone else
From Wikipedia “Co-creation is a form of market or business strategy that emphasizes the generation and ongoing realization of mutual firm-customer value. It views markets as forums for firms and active customers to share, combine and renew each other’s resources and capabilities to create value through new forms of interaction, service and learning mechanisms. It differs from the traditional active firm – passive consumer market construct of the past. Co-created value arises in the form of personalized, unique experiences for the customer (value-in-use) and ongoing revenue, learning and enhanced market performance…
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July 8 2011
Summertime Scheduling
Fish jumping and high cotton aside, Summertime presents unique challenges to easy-livin’ project management. Everyone deserves a little R&R, especially while the sun is shining. For East Coast transplants such as myself, that usually involves migration to a far less forgiving climate and a brutal itinerary of familial obligations that have amassed in the intervening months. It’s a veritable Christmas in July when we make it back for a visit, minus the suspenders, tank top undershirt and red velvet swim trunks. But it’s much less of a holiday when you’re forecasting…
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July 1 2011
An Idea Furnace
My head is full and I’m going to dump it out here. Sometimes you get back from a conference or an event and you think, “well, I walked away with a few useful things” or “meh, wish I hadn’t spent my money on that”. And sometime you find yourself in a place where there is such a high concentration of smart, creative people with good ideas and good intentions that you are a bit overwhelmed. Photo by Joe Shiabotnik I found myself in Phoenix, AZ (average daily temp 111 degrees F, hence the…
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May 23 2011
No. 2,999
I was recently voted into the Visual Effects Society (http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/). What is this you say? I’ll tell you, straight from the VES: “The Visual Effects Society (VES) is the entertainment industry’s only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners including artists, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in all areas of entertainment from film, television and commercials to music videos and games. Comprised of a diverse group of more than 2,200 members in 20 countries, the VES strives to enrich and educate…
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