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Home / Articles / Archives for Innovation

Adaptation: largest amoeba lives at the bottom of the Mariana Trench

Jim Leis | November 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment
4 inch amoeba

A 4 inch single cell organism is not science fiction? [...]

Filed in: Innovation - Keywords: Adaptation, gradualism, Innovation, natural selection

One possible tech future

Jim Leis | October 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Productivity future vision

Peering into the near future of technologically aided productivity. [...]

Filed in: Product Development - Keywords: Innovation, Productivity, Technology

11 things every entrepreneur should know about innovation

Jim Leis | October 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Innovation at work

Innovation is not necessarily revolutionary. But it is almost impossible to plan, and requires a supportive culture. [...]

Filed in: Innovation - Keywords: creative destruction, Innovation

Contradiction between science and innovation

Jim Leis | January 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

There is something inherently contradictory in the application of scientific method to the study of innovation and complexity, which at least partly explains the adjectives of mysticism hurled at complexity research, most assuredly as an insult. But is it? [...]

Filed in: Innovation - Keywords: Complexity, Evolution, Innovation

Knowledge brokering

Jim Leis | July 21, 2010 · 3 Comments
Scale free network

Knowledge brokering is more productively viewed as a structural need than an innovation strategy, tacked onto existing functional processes. As a component of organizational structure, it can obtain the more formal attention it deserves while benefiting from the deeper understanding that other disciplines provide. [...]

Filed in: Structure - Keywords: Design, IDEO, Innovation, Knowledge brokering, Problem solving

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