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Getting Past the Barriers to Collaboration

Doug Williams Innovation Excellence
June 23, 2014
Collaboration is quickly becoming a contender for buzzword of the year. The term is so widely used when identifying important tools for innovation, but its importance in the business world is still difficult to deny. For successful 21st century global enterprises, collaboration among employees and with external partners and customers is critical.
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Be Bold

Beth Comstock GE
June 19, 2014
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to be bold, aspiring to be bold, fretting over not being bold enough – not just clever, smart or imaginative, but audacious.
The tough part is that the world keeps shifting and taking away the firm ground that would allow us to take action. The rise of new technologies, the flood of analytics and data and the accelerating speed of the global enterprise can complicate decision making for even the most confident executive. So, how do we stay bold?
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Why Collaboration with Startups is the Future

Evan Burfield 1776
June 17, 2014
It seems like every week another major global corporation is partnering with an accelerator or acquiring an early-stage startup. Nike, Kaplan, Pearson, Sprint, MasterCard, Lloyds of London, GE, Booz Allen, Coca-Cola, MedStar, and more have embraced collaboration with startups as a key element of their innovation strategy.
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Crowdsourcing Economies with Collaboration

Jason T Graf Crowdit
June 09, 2014
According to Venture Capital (VC) database CB Insights, the total amount of venture capital financing hit $29.2 billion across 3,354 deals in 2013. What’s interesting is the number of overall VC deals has remained relatively flat over the past three years, as have the total investments (holding Q1 of 2012 as an outlier).
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Warren Zevon’s Prescription for Innovation

Henry Doss T2 Venture Creation
February 17, 2014
“Send lawyers, guns, and money… to get me out of this.” ­­– Warren Zevon
When the mythical narrator in the above-quoted Warren Zevon tune found himself in a bit of trouble, he knew he needed three things: “lawyers, guns, and money.”

Innovation, likewise, has its own magic triumvirate solution. But in the case of innovation, it’s not “lawyers, guns and money” – it’s brokers, role models, and risk-takers.
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Healthcare Debate in US: Can We Talk?

Henry Doss T2 Venture Creation
February 07, 2014
The health care system in the U.S. is Dickensian: We find ourselves in both the best and worst of times.
Medical advances – devices, diagnostic tools, drugs, facilities, and virtually all of the basic mechanics – are improving every day. We are better at medicine, know more about medicine and have an R & D infrastructure that holds the promise of solving many, if not most, of the intractable problems associated with basic human health.  We seem to be in a near-Golden Age.

Looking Ahead By Looking Back: Evaluating 25 Years of Democratic Change

Julia Roig Partners For Democratic Change
January 27, 2014
The work of advancing democracy and peace in the world is indeed a slow slog. The one consistent contribution the international development field can point to is the lasting investment made in people and institutions, who then go on to continue making a difference in their own country.
No one program design, no one donor, and no one building block of democratic societies has been or will be enough.  Rather, a continued commitment to local capacity building and investment in institutions is what has been proven to make a difference in the long term.
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Global Learning Revolution at the Nexus

Subra Suresh Carnegie Mellon University
January 24, 2014
At the nexus of the four topics contemplated this week at the World Economic Forum at Davos—disruptive innovation, inclusive growth, society’s new expectations, and preparing for a world of nine billion—sits the idea of a Global Learning Revolution. Technology is disrupting traditional models of classroom education. But it also has the power to offer billions around the globe access to a first-class education and the hope for economic advancement.  Business plus government plus academia plus NGOs—working together—have the opportunity to bring this global learning revolution to life.

Power Meetings and Power Plugs: Challenges for World Economic Forum in Davos

Tony Fratto Hamilton Place Strategies
January 22, 2014
One thing always occurs to me when I arrive in Davos for the World Economic Forum meeting: If we were really any good at building consensus and solving problems, we’d all be sticking the same kinds of power plugs into the same kinds of wall outlets by now. Instead, we travel the world with our byzantine collections of power adapters (or we leave them at home and buy new ones abroad).
I mean, if we can’t even solve this power plug crisis, how can we possibly hope to solve the world’s challenges today and elevate standards of living for people?
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