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A Creative Solution to Protecting Creative Works

A Creative Solution to Protecting Creative Works

Mar-10-11 By Aminda
The balance between openly sharing creative work and knowledge while still protecting valuable designs and brand-related concepts is still a delicate one for many organizations. This is especially true for small businesses that may lack a formal structure for protecting their work and freelance workers who struggle to protect concepts and proposals during the pitch stage to prospective client.
To address this issue, a UK design team has developed a trust based procurement system called Creative Barcode. The product is an app that produces a unique barcode encoded with the Creators details that can pasted into the header or footer of all written and visual files associated with a project proposal.
Newpapers Need the Crowd Too

Newpapers Need the Crowd Too

Mar-09-11 By Aminda
The age of the paper newspaper may be declining but a positive new door has opened in the field of journalism. News media outlooks probably wouldn’t be considered to have been quick to integrate crowdsourcing. After all, reliable, well-researched, thoughtfully writing reporting doesn’t lend itself to being bid on for the lowest price from an anonymous crowd. But news outlets around the world have found ways to integrate the crowd without compromising the reliability of their work. Here are a few examples.
How Long Will the Crowd Stay in Power?

How Long Will the Crowd Stay in Power?

Mar-08-11 By Aminda
A somewhat humorous commentary on user-generated material was posted by the U.S.’ National Public Radio. In an interview, commentator Andrei Codrescu expressed frustration with a feature on his eBook. The Kindle e-book allows readers to highlight passages and if enough people mark the same sentence, every Kindle user can see those highlights. Says Codrescu:
“I discovered that the horror doesn't stop with the unwelcomed presence of another reader who's defaced my new book. But it deepens with something called view popular highlights, which will tell you how many morons have underlined before so that not only you do not own the new book you paid for, the entire experience of reading is shattered by the presence of a mob that agitates inside your text like strangers in a train station.
Capitalizing on Complexity

Capitalizing on Complexity

Mar-07-11 By Aminda
A recent post shared insight from IBM’s, 2010 Global CEO Study, Capitalizing on Complexity. The report indicated that the most pressing concern among today’s business leaders was how to manage complexity. It then identified current leaders who were rising up to the complexity challenge and providing direction on how to capitalize on complexity. One of the areas in which these “standouts” focused their attention on was creativity, a practice that deserves more attention. Here are some more excerpts from the study.

Creativity is the most important leadership quality, according to CEOs. Standouts practice and encourage experimentation and innovation throughout their organizations. Creative leaders expect to make deeper business model changes to realize their strategies. To succeed, they take more calculated risks, find new ideas, and keep innovating in how they lead and communicate.
Inspiring Organzational Change

Inspiring Organzational Change

Mar-04-11 By Aminda
Effective internal communication is critical to businesses during challenging times. Whether finances are falling or customer complaints are rising, it takes carefully crafted messaging to galvanize and generate the action needed. Change and complexity need to be expected, organizations cannot be comfortable operating status quo. Following Microsoft and Nokia’s recent partnership, it’s worth revisiting the message Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop used to prepare his company for a shake-up. This internal memo was widely publicized when it was leaked a couple weeks before the partnership was announced. It’s a great example of a well-crafted, motivating message that can be an example to any leader looking to inspire an organization to embrace change and innovation.
The Complexity Challenge

The Complexity Challenge

Mar-03-11 By Aminda
IBM recently released the report Capitalizing on Complexity, containing insights from their 2010 Global CEO Study which consists of face-to-face conversations with more than 1,500 chief executive officers worldwide.
The report states that a shift has taken place in what is weighing on the minds of today’s leaders. No longer primarily concerned with how to cope with change, as in the past three studies, the 2010 interviews identified a new primary challenge: complexity.
Toyota’s Time

Toyota’s Time

Mar-02-11 By Aminda
There’s no doubt the past couple years have been rough for Toyota. Now, they appear to be committed to shedding the somber, apologetic stance following a string of safety recalls, and embrace 2011 as their year. The campaign includes a new tagline, “#1 for a reason” (moving away from "moving forward"), the launch of 11 new automobile models and a couple of savvy PR campaigns.
Winning Ways in the Workplace

Winning Ways in the Workplace

Mar-01-11 By Aminda
A recent post discussed the correlation of winning with the popularity of problem solving challenges and competition, which rewards work in a way that is not typically experienced on the job. While employers can’t or wouldn’t want to transform the R&D department pay structure into a reward or commission based plan so that workers feel more motivated, organizations can be using similar methods to increase productivity.
Not only can but should be according to an interesting interview with Adrian Gostick, co-author of The Carrot Principle, who explains the power of reward and recognition in motivating employees to perform. Gostick explains;
The Rx for Change?

The Rx for Change?

Feb-28-11 By Aminda
Extensive content has been written about barriers to open innovation faced by companies. It’s said that leaders just need to change their mindset, change their vision, change their organizational structure. All the good advice and direction can be more overwhelming than the thought of implementing open innovation in the first place.
An article about crowdsourcing posted by American Medical News makes an interesting observation that might apply to any business leader debating the implementation of an open innovation strategy.
Microsoft and Nokia: Extreme Open Innovation?

Microsoft and Nokia: Extreme Open Innovation?

Feb-26-11 By Aminda
Since Microsoft and Nokia announced their new partnership earlier this month, there has been plenty of speculation in both the business and technology industries over what exactly what the partnership means.
Is it open innovation? The partnership has been utilized to promote the practice of open collaboration but while both companies have embraced open practices, this partnership involves much more than just sharing technologies or even sharing development plans and building products together, which typical of a reseller deal. The firms also plan to combine assets and collaborate on joint marketing initiatives. A joint statement from the two CEOs describes their plans as a “broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of the companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem.”

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