RELEVENTS

08/25/2015

"...if you try to “innovate” with the same mindset, you are surely going to get the same result."

— RELEVENTS Chief Strategy Officer Ben Smitthee

What we are trying to do is create shared experiences that truly spark learning, build relationships, and become a catalyst from which new business can really happen.

08/24/2015

Inflows and outflows of knowledge are critical to the success of innovation.

Open Innovation is a hot term today. When we in the innovation community talk about “open innovation,” we talk about collaboration and sharing in, and leading to the innovation process. Chesbrough’s model of open innovation…

08/21/2015

Get out of the lab, avoid focus groups, stop asking people what they will do, and instead, observe them in their natural habitats.

I am a big believer in taking insights from one domain, and reapplying them in another. Usually this works best if we take something we understand pretty well, and use it to explain something we…

08/20/2015

Creative director & visionary for Firmenich Perfumery Steven Van Der Kruit shares insights and photographs he's bringing to Innovate @ TBD Fest.

08/19/2015

We are seeing a convergence of traditional marketing sciences with data analytics.

— President & CEO of Gongos, Inc. Camille Nicita

08/18/2015

The essence of work is to create a "work-life".

— Business Athlete Peter Vander Auwera

This post is part-2 of a series of ten essays on the essence of work. For an introduction, check here. This video is the record of a talk by Santiago Ortiz at EYEO Festival in 2014…

08/17/2015

In the process we often forget the missing vitamin C – COLLABORATION.

From Steve Jobs to Elon Musk, we seem to want to simplify the innovation process down to a single person. In the process we forget innovation’s missing vitamin C – collaboration.

08/14/2015

Create and shape the change that is happening in the industry today.

— President & CEO of Gongos, Inc. Camille Nicita

08/13/2015

Much change needs to take place in our world.

— Educator Ayelet Baron

I had a long conversation with a former colleague last week that made me realize that I wanted to share with my community and network my life's purpose and be bold about it as I…

08/13/2015

Sorting out customers is no trivial task. Here's how.

educator — Alex Genov of Zappos.com

Prologue We are living in the Age of the Customer! What this means is that businesses now have to consider not only profit numbers and operations, but the experience of their customers or prospects as…

08/12/2015

We can learn a lot about innovation from the Chicago trading floor.

educator — Danny Schuman

Suddenly, it’s really quiet around here. Crazy guttural screaming has been replaced by constant but gentle tapping. An entire language of hand signals is going the way of Walkmans and DVD players. The Pits are…