This week YURU is guest blogging on Blogging Innovation, a leading innovation and marketing blog from Braden Kelley of Business Strategy Innovation. We are honored to be a guest blogger as this is one of the best places on the web to find latest discussions on business innovation. Click here to read Realistic Impossibilities
Friday, December 18th, 2009
The short answer is EVERYTHING. The long answer is what this post is all about. These are three of today’s most pressing issues that are all too often discussed in a vacuum. The best progress will be made at the margins where each of these pressing issues overlap. When we begin to see them each…read more
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Investment comfort in the world of high finance all too often comes from fast profits in known and proven markets. The never-ending game of offering higher profits at lower [apparent] risk to attract capital was certainly alive and well before the global economic crisis. The question is, why does it appear to be coming back? …read more
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
It depends really on the US’ ability to recognize that the type of world leader required in the last century is quite different than the world leader that is needed in the 21st century. Just as in business, what qualifies as effective leadership changes over time as the constituents being led change not only demographically,…read more
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Some years ago, after recently taking a new job, I experienced the creepiness, anger, and all together bad feeling of being Boss Stalked. As I sat outside with my kids watching them swim one Sunday afternoon, my cell phone rang, my blackberry buzzed with a new message, and my home phone rang, all within 3…read more
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
If your company is following suit in a growing trend and starting an Innovation campaign, beware of the pitfalls. Many companies assume they can create a few goals, advertise the idea, provide a bit of training, and expect that greatness will appear. If it is unbridled success you are after, and you are trying to…read more
Monday, October 26th, 2009
A Business Lesson from the Dutch The Dutch town of Drachten removed most of their traffic lights and traffic signs with remarkable results. Intersections previously adorn with traffic lights and directional signs have been replaced with round-abouts (traffic circles) and all signage removed. Deaths related to traffic accidents zero since the program started seven years…read more
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
One of the most important lessons from this year’s World Business Forum in NY, is the need to update our business models for the 21st century. Believe it or not, most of today’s business models are based on how the military and large industrial companies were managed over 100 years ago. Gary Hamel’s presentation, in…read more
Monday, October 12th, 2009
QUESTIONS FROM THE WORLD BUSINESS FORUM 2009 Questions are so much more intriguing than answers! We can’t create a new business model that will be effective in the 21st century, accounting for its unique set of challenges, by “thinking outside of the box”. It’s high time to obliterate the box! As long as the box…read more
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Do you find yourself wondering why your team is only partially engaged, and why you have to follow-up on every little thing to ensure the work get done on time? Shouldn’t they be doing back flips for you given that they still have a job in this economy? There is really only one primary secret…read more
