Didn't realize Scott Berkun is a CMU alum.

He gave his innovation talk to CMU students in Baker Hall earlier this week.

brilliant!

Quoted: now he's showing us something even more exciting: how to use the Wii Remote as a whiteboard marker. OK, it doesn't sound that exciting, but free up a few minutes from your busy modern lifestyles to watch this clip and you'll see it actually has some serious potential.

Scott, the author, spoke about innovation at today's Seattle Lunch 2.0. I thought the talk was a little too general to be useful, but the book has solid customer reviews. I guess I will read the free copy I got for raising my hand and making a comment.

Quoted: "For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the ...

That's right...if I dress like a vending machine, someone trying to kill me will actually mistake me for a vending machine.

Quoted: Inventors say a tradition of tinkering and building has made Japan welcoming to experimental ideas, no matter how eccentric.
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“Japanese society won’t just laugh, so inventors are not afraid to try new things,” said Takumi Hirai, chairman of Japan’s largest association of individual inventors, the 10,000-member Hatsumeigakkai.

This is one of a few CNBC shows I've found myself watching quite a bit recently. It is definitely an inspirational show.

Quoted: “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch” -- Watch as Donny Deutsch interviews the most powerful people in business, entertainment and politics. "The Big Idea" celebrates the power stars who make it happen.

This is a response to Marc Andreessen's "The Only Thing that Matters" blog post (http://bluedot.us/users/mohit/dot/88893807222 ) where Marc argued that the market is the only thing that matters.

Quoted: I'd much prefer to view the dance between product and market as something far more fluid and highly reciprocal. A product can expand, and in rare cases, create a market. A market can inevitably drive the strategic direction of a product. Factors like ease-of-use, elegant design, and aesthetics that can evoke emotions and loyalty, and others can help shape wants that we never would have conceived of prior.

This book (well the soundbytes version) changed my perception of innovation in a number of ways:
1) Innovation can be taking an existing business and changing as little as one parameter.
2) The parameter(s) you change does not have to be product related.

Quoted: He elaborates a taxonomy of 15 "innovation types," from "disruptive" breakthrough technologies like Apple's iTunes to more mundane marketing innovations like hiring a sports superstar to endorse athletic shoes. Unlike many business futurists, Moore doesn't exalt innovation for its own sake, insisting it must be tied to concrete business goals.

for pierre!

redotted from youknowwho: 7 different alarm times for 7 different days of a week.

Quoted: American Innovative™, LLC is the creator of the Neverlate™ 7-Day Alarm Clock™

n, a bunch of us are going. i'll dot updates when i'm there.