From BIF-3: The Social Innovation Experience
By Adrian Chernoff (www.adrianchernoff.com)
This year’s 2007 Business Innovation Factory conference was a whirlwind of content, dialogue, and innovation experiences. The content built up from speaker to speaker and session to session where the random interconnections from people, projects, and ideas lead to the realization that opportunity is abundant. The conference demonstrates that we all have the ability to create and the fact others have done so or are in the process of innovating was an encouraging message to current and future innovators.
At the heart of the event, it was clear that innovation lives in a delicate and fragile space and the conference did an excellent job of preserving the integrity of innovation while at the same time giving others a means to connect with other innovators, thereby shattering the notion of “I’m alone on this journey” to a supportive community of like-minded innovators.
The mental download and exchange of tangential projects and ideas were inspiring and encouraging. The conversation format fueled a resonance and an awakening within attendees. Hearing the stories was a great tool to spin attendee’s mental engines in helping them potentially overcome and see solutions to their own innovation obstacles.
Here is a collection of speaker bits, or rather Innovation Mantras, which may help other innovators around the county and around the globe.
CHANCE FAVORS THE PREPARED MIND: Eric Bonabeau
SOLVE PEOPLE’S PROBLEMS: Jason Fried
CULTIVATE HUNCHES: Steven Johnson
INNOVATION IS BASED ON THE WORLD CHANGING AROUND YOU: Joseph Coughlin
FIND THE RIGHT BOX AND GET IN IT: Dan Heath
IS IT A PRODUCT OR IS IT A FEATURE OF ANOTHER PRODUCT: Mark Cuban
LOOK AT YOURSELF AS THE CONSUMER: Mark Cuban
PIRATES ARE AT THE SHARP END OF INNOVATION: Matt Mason
REINVENTION COMES FROM NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES: Berger
WHEN I’M IN THE BATHROOM, THE OFFICE IS CLOSED: Richard Saul Wurman
THE BUSINESS UNIT WAS NOT DESIGNED TO EVOLVE: Clay Christensen
ACCOUNTABILITY COMES FROM TALKING TO CUSTOMERS: Paul English
LOOK FOR PASSIONATE PEOPLE: Dave Balter
MASTER JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES: Ellen Levy
GET PEOPLE ENCOURAGED: Paul English
PUT TOGETHER LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE: William Herp
INNOVATORS ARE PIONEERS AND PIONEERS ARE THE ONES WITH AN ARROW IN THEIR BUTT: Jack Hughes
SPECIFICITY AIDS DECISION MAKING: Dan Heath
SIMPLICITY IS NOT DUMBING DOWN, BUT THE PRIORITIZATION OF IDEAS: Dan Heath
MANTRA OF SIMPLICITY: Walt Mossberg
COMMITTEES DON’T MAKE GREAT DECISIONS: Jason Fried
BE THE ENEMY OF MEDIOCRACY: Jason Fried
YOU HAVE TO WANT TO SUCCEED VERY BADLY: Irving Wladawsky-Berger
YOU MUST BELIEVE IN YOUR PRODUCT: Paul English
WE NEED MORE OPINIONATED COMPANIES: Jason Fried
DISTILL YOUR MESSAGE INTO A NUTSHELL: Robin Chase
FOCUS ON THE QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT: Robin Chase
SIMPLE AND ELEGANT DESIGN: Denise Nemchev
I KNOW WHAT I KNOW AND I KNOW WHAT I DON’T HAVE A CLUE ABOUT: Mark Cuban
Posted October 12, 2007 11:51 AM by | Permalink
