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Report from the Field: The Design of Networks for Innovation |
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 A study last year conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership found that nearly 92 percent of the executives surveyed believe the challenges their organizations face are more complex than they were just five years ago. How do you innovate within such a dynamic, unstable and unpredictable environment? “Innovate together,” says BIF research advisor and professor Andrew Hargadon who was in the house last week for a half-day workshop.
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BIF Initiative Turns Nursing Home into Laboratory for Improving Elder Care |
 The Business Innovation Factory is partnering with Tockwotton Home, Quality Partners of Rhode Island and the MIT AgeLab to create a real-world laboratory for developing and testing new solutions, products and models for improving elderly care. Leveraging the BIF Experience Lab platform, the "Nursing Home of the Future" will create a forum for innovators and industry partners to transform current approaches to elderly care, provide a roadmap for redesigning next generation solutions and help companies and care providers deliver better value to the burgeoning elderly population.
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BIF-4 Planning Heats Up with New Storyteller Additions |
 Registration is now open for the BIF-4 Collaborative Innovation Summit on October 15-16, hosted by BusinessWeek assistant managing editor Bruce Nussbaum and “Mavericks at Work” author Bill Taylor.
This year’s BIF summit will bring you another round of unexpected pairings that connect the innovation dots across industries and disciplines. Where else will designer and entrepreneur Marc Ecko and explorer, swimmer and environmentalist Lewis Gordon Pugh share the stage with stars like Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund. Other storytellers include author, writer and teacher Clay Shirky and deputy director of the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group Cat Lainé. We also are thrilled to announce that 37signals founder and CEO Jason Fried and MIT AgeLab director Joseph F. Coughlin will be back at BIF-4 to make encore presentations.
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BIF Board Member Ellen Levy Accepts Key Post at LinkedIn |
 Congratulations to BIF Board Member Ellen Levy who was just appointed Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at LinkedIn Corporation. In her new role, Ellen will play a critical role in overseeing business development, identifying and managing strategic partnerships and assessing new market opportunities.
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Kelly Space & Technology Opens East Coast Hub, Cites R.I. Innovation Lab Opportunity |
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The BIF team was excited to learn that Kelly Space & Technology, Inc., a San Bernardino-based California company focusing on aerospace, energy and homeland security technologies, is establishing an East Coast operation in Rhode Island. The high-tech company cites Rhode Island’s capability to serve as an innovation laboratory and foster innovation as a key driver in its decision to locate in the Ocean State. [ Learn More ] |
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Can modeling and simulation enable collaborative innovation? |
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 That's the question BIF Chief Catalyst Saul Kaplan asked this week during his opening remarks at the plenary session of a national conference Modeling and Simulation Innovation at the Intersections which is hosted by two national leaders in this space SISO (Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization) and BRIMS (Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation).
How can modeling and simulation help our BIF community to enable collaborative innovation? And how can it help us in our Nursing Home of the Future project to explore and test better ways to deliver care to our growing elder population?
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Listen Now: Clay Shirky on the ability of groups to act without leaders |
 BIF Research Advisor Clay Shirky is one of the world’s most perceptive social media thinkers. His new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, explores the ability of groups to act without leaders. It describes the profound impact of social technological tools on today’s culture and surmises that we’re in the midst of a revolution as profound as the advent of the printing press. In this podcast interview, BIF talks with Clay about how established companies can take advantage of this new world order and the role real-world experimentation plays in virtually-based environments.
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