Webinar Replay: Innovator’s DNA Observing Skill
Jeff Allison, former VP of Engineering at Cisco Systems joins us to discuss the Innovator’s DNA observing skill.
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Webinar Replay: Innovator’s DNA Questioning Skill
Sarah Gray, Ethan Thorman, and Mark Cook join Steve Hogan and Sean Murphy to discuss the Innovator’s DNA Questioning skill, offering lessons learned asking questions to foster innovation.
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Webinar Replay: Innovator’s DNA Associating Skill
Panel sessions Feb 22, 2012 on Innovator’s DNA Skill #1 Associating. Terry Frazier of Cognovis, Steve Hogan of Tech-Rx, and Sean Murphy of SKMurphy. Part of the Book Club For Business Impact covered lessons learned applying a number of techniques for associating from chapter 2 of the “Innovator’s DNA” by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton
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Webinar Replay: Innovator’s DNA Series Overview
Steve Hogan and Sean Murphy walk through a five part webinar series on “The Innovator’s DNA” by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen,and Clayton Christensen. Sean thinks it’s the best book on innovation and entrepreneurship for 2011 and useful for any team that is trying to innovate. Each webinar will be in a roundtable format and include
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Entrepreneurship As A Calling
The practical and spiritual aspects of entrepreneurship as a calling are well documented in “The Call of the Entrepreneur.”
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Chris Yonge on 3D Printing: Past, Present, Future
Recap of a fantastic talk by Chris Yonge: “3D Printing: Past, Present, Future.” 3D printing and animation add new dimensions for creativity.
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An Entrepreneur Is A Change Agent
I like this 2009 video by Grasshopper “Entrepreneurs Can Change The World” that portrays the entrepreneur as a change agent and celebrates the freedom and economic opportunities that America has traditionally offered immigrants.
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Janet Iwasa: Animate Your Hypothesis to Explore Its Viability and Implications
I found Janet Iwasa‘s Ted Talk on “how animations can help scientists test a hypothesis” to be extremely thought provoking. It’s worth considering how to animate your hypothesis to explore it’s viability and implications.
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Discovery Kanban Allows Firms to Balance Delivery and Discovery
I believe that Patrick Steyaert’s Discovery Kanban offers a critical perspective on how large organizations can cultivate lean innovation methods for product delivery beyond isolated spike efforts or innovation colonies.
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Happy 4th of July
Happy 4th of July from all of us at SKMurphy! Here are some quotes to reflect on as you watch the fireworks.
Kent Beck and Don Reinertsen on Value of Storytelling
What follows is an exchange on twitter between Kent Beck and Don Reinertsen on Dec 12-2013 about their experiences as speakers at the Lean Startup Conference 2013 that I thought was worth preserving.
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Video from Lean Innovation 101 Talk at SF Bay ACM Nov-20-2013
Lean innovation models provide a scientific approach for creating and testing a product and developing a new business around it.
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BeamWise Demo For BiOS 2014
I have blogged about BeamWise™ in “BeamWise Blends Biophotonic and Model Based Design Expertise” A First look at BeamWise in Operation” If you are interested in getting a closer look, Kinetic River will be demonstrating it in booth 8639 at the BiOS Conference February 1-2, 2014. If you don’t want to wait that long contact Giacomo Vacca
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Lisa Solomon: Effective Meetings Choose One of Reaching Understanding, Generating Options, or Making Decisions
Lisa Solomon says that an effective meeting can do one–and only one–of 3 things: build a common understanding, generate option, or make decisions. In this talk on “Designing Time: Make Meaning” she elaborates on this and challenges the person calling the meeting to work backward from the end of the meeting and define: what has
Slides and Audio From “How To Bootstrap” ASLCPA Mar-27-2013
Here are the slides and audio from a “How To Bootstrap Your Startup” presentation at an Emerging Business Group Best Practices Seminar at Abbott, Stringham, and Lynch.
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Communicating Complex Concepts in Video: Luxr’s 5 Whys Video
Luxr has produced a clever encapsulation of the 5 Whys methodology, a technique for persistently probing the symptoms to find the root cause of a problem. Compared to several other “5 Whys” videos YouTube steered me to after I viewed this one I was struck by how practical and tactical Luxr’s explanation was. It communicated the
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Mark Stiving: Three Pricing Principles I Confirmed In Las Vegas
Mark Stiving is a serial entrepreneur and a pricing expert. In this video he tells the story of being mistaken for a lost lamb by a shepherdess in Las Vegas after being screwed by a cab driver. He uses her business model to illustrate three important pricing principles: Know Your Value Segment Your Market Offer
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What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Grand Rapids
What can Silicon Valley learn from Grand Rapids? The value of encouraging the heart.
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The Heart That Holds On
Entrepreneurship is sustained by what’s in your heart and a childlike curiosity toward how the world works and new undiscovered possibilities.
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Best Business Book of 2011: The Innovator’s DNA
Steve Hogan and Sean Murphy provide an overview of the Innovator’s DNA webinar series offered by the Book Club for Business Impact.
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