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Best of the BIF Summit: Vids and Stories that Will Wow You
As we get ready for BIF-6 in September, we invite you to take a look back at some of our favorite stories from the last five years. I promise: You will be wowed.
Food for Thought: Kaplan on Embracing Social Media in New Mass High Tech Column
Drip, drip, drip. One comment on a blog post. One retweet of a point of view. One new Facebook friend. You might not even realize while it is happening but over time an audience is developing that is genuinely interested in what you have to say and gives you permission to share it.
BIF Bookgroup's February Selection Is In!
Why does design thinking matter? This month the BIF Bookgroup will tackle the question and read Roger Martin's latest book The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage. Roger is a BIF research advisor and visionary Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Continue reading | Design | Crossing Disciplines | Business Model Innovation
Think It, Test It, Build It: A Real World, Student/Teacher Lab to Accelerate Technology Utilization
BIF seeks to expand its Student Experience Lab to create an environment where students and teachers co-create, test and share strategies for leveraging technology/digital media. The lab will improve understanding of how students use technology and demonstrate digital platforms that enhance student/teacher engagement and support personalized learning.
Register Today for BIF-6: Sept. 15-16!
Join us for the 6th annual BIF Summit and participate in one of the country’s best conversations about innovation. Hear more than two dozen personal stories from today's most compelling innovators, business model renegades and true transformers and directly connect with pioneers who created environments and opportunities where transformative innovation emerged.
2010 Special Events: Meet-Ups with Len Schlesinger, Dan Pink & Cat Laine
A conversation with Babson College President Len Schlesinger about the future of entrepreneurship education. Breakfast with bestselling author Dan Pink. Lessons from the frontline of social innovation with Cat Lainé. What's the common denominator? All are part of BIF's 2010 lineup of events...events that you should register for today!
BIF Executive Director Melissa Withers Honored as 'One to Watch' in 2010
BIF Executive Director Melissa Withers has been named one of ten people who can change the city of Providence in 2010 by Providence Monthly magazine. Withers shared this honor with BIF community friends Andy Cutler and Matt Grigsby.
Things to Think About And Do This Year
Perfect for ringing in the new year, thought instilling author and blogger Seth Godin has compiled an inspirational eBook called What Matters Now, a compendium of short essays, drawings and encouraging words of wisdom from some of today’s popular authors, businessfolk, social do-gooders and bloggers. Featuring several members of the BIF community, each person reflects on a single word, offering their personal hints of what to think about and do in 2010.
10 Ways to Recognize the Innovators In Your Organization
Can you recognize an innovator when you meet one? In his latest Mass High Tech column, BIF founder Saul Kaplan offers the 10 behavioral characteristics he uses to recognize an innovator. "If the game is to identify and connect the innovators, how do you identify them and ensure that they have the resources and freedom to innovate?" After years of honing his targeting and selection process, here are Saul's first five traits:
- Innovators think there is a better way.
- Innovators know that without passion there can be no innovation.
- Innovators embrace change to a fault.
- Innovators have a strong point of view but know that they are missing something.
- Innovators know innovation is a team sport.
Kaplan in New BizWeek Column: The Innovator's Vulnerability
In his latest BusinessWeek column, BIF's Chief Catalyst Saul Kaplan asserts that the most distinguishing characteristic of an innovator is their vulnerability:
"If you hang around innovators long enough, it’s pretty clear they all have a deep-seated confidence in both their ideas and their ability to turn ideas into reality. The best innovators are able to do this on a regular basis, delivering value along the way. To some, they may seem invincible, impervious to the naysayers, roadblocks, and intransigent systems in their way. But I believe that this confidence, however valuable, is not what distinguishes a great innovator. Instead, innovation requires a level of vulnerability with which most are uncomfortable."
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