Millenial Job Madness
So you want a job? Just graduated...or maybe been out longer, much longer... Are you... Angry? Upset? Confused? Livid? Depressed? Feeling entitled? Feeling disrespected? Yes, no? To most, all, some? Well, sorry to break the news, but if you answered yes to...
Open Innovation Portals : I’d Rather Shop at a Solution Marketplace
Open Innovation. It's one thing that the word innovation has been bludgeoned to death. It's another when extra words are added as if a new wonder drug has been found to cure all of new product blues. Just do this and all is cured. Open Innovation is a...
Part 2- Persistent, High Impact Innovation
This is the second in our series of the how to of Adaptive Innovation – moving from insights and product abstractions to transformative commercial platforms and their specific products. As we've noted before, context is king. No context – and the insights...
Part 1 : Persistent, High Impact Ideation
Big ideas - where do they come from? How can we generate them? How can develop impactful ideas - the ones that translate in winning products and services? How can we do that persistently, repeatedly...even predictably... In our view, historically looking...
Powerful Stories : Key Effective Strategy
We just don’t tell great stories anymore. We don’t teach how to. We don’t understand their importance. We tell our friends great stories, or at least we like to think that we do. We regale them of our college exploits, the crazed fun of youth, those first...
Resilience Surviving Hurricanes, Hackers, and Havoc
Adam Malofsky, Calvin Trumbo & Colby Swanson of Elemence Climate change or not, today's disaster costs pale in comparison to decades past. Before the Internet, the phone, or even electricity, it was rare to see a nation or a state shut down from a...
Save the Planet, Save the Seas, Save Ourselves… Make Money
Unfortunately, so far, despite real concerns, pocketbooks globally simply cannot afford higher prices from most of today’s green and clean start-ups in a globally suffering, highly competitive, ever changing economy. Government activism via subsidies,...
Some Interview Secrets for Recent Grads…
In my 25 plus years working, managing and hiring, I’ve interviewed several hundred graduating seniors and grad students and always have I been amazed at the general lack of preparedness or understanding. While some of these may be obvious, here are some...
Tesla and Adaption : The Awesome Stark Realities
Elon Musk and Tesla are if nothing else bold on steroids. The only man and his firm in about 50 years to truly launch a new car brand with powerful loyalty, accelerating scaling and products the generally wow with their beauty, performance and quality and...
The Experience Revolution : Realism, Context and Timing
A recent Forbes article by Barry Jaruzelski noted the epic economic transition from products and services to total experiences. While interesting in observation, the real amazement is in how many generations just never get this save a select few. More...
The Green and Clean Implosion
As I watch Green & Clean's implosion coupled simultaneously with watching innovation firms charging literally 100's of thousands to generate just ideas, I'm literally shocked at just how persistent and consistent innovation mistakes are made. No...
The Innovation Lifestyle : 7 Million in 90 Seconds!
Yup, we did that once. It was a cool, satisfying feeling. We needed the cash. We got it. The key? Develop a very simple, compelling, very short slide deck and smooth presentation. Too many recent articles on this are just too complex, too long and drawn...
The Innovation Lifestyle : Culture Change Reality
Anyone can innovate! Take these classes! Take our sessions! Read my book! Buy my program! Come to our webinar! Try these five steps! Do this all and create an innovation culture and your own innovation army! Sound great. It’s not so simple. You need a few...
The Innovation Lifestyle : Driverless Cars, Humanity, Insanity and Some Big Context
The Ultimate Driving Machine – BMW Built To Move The Human Spirit - Mercedes Benz Driven by Passion – Fiat Born to Perform - Jaguar Have the folks at Google lost their minds? At Elemence, we don’t mince words. That costs our clients too much. Let’s...
The Innovation Lifestyle : Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Seeing the forest for the trees, but not missing those trees keys big innovation. Our highly interconnected world mandates that we pay attention to everything around us. We all need to make decisions not simply based upon one step up or down in a supply...
The Innovation Lifestyle : So You Have This Startup Idea? Really?
Of the almost 100 startups and about 1000 ideas actually worth listening too out of maybe 100,000 heard about in my lifetime, it’s amazing that still that over 95% of them are poor ideas ill conceived with no context for success or any coherent idea if...
The Innovation Lifestyle : Super Charged Internships
After founding and running a few significant intern and coop programs, I have to say that few people ever realize the opportunity that they have earned. Most limit their effort and exposure to their immediate work, staff and other intern colleagues. An...
The Innovation Lifestyle : Time Means Everything
What’s the one thing, above all other things, that most people want, that’s ever more scarce and that we just don’t how much we really have? Time. Life seems to come down to one thing expressed two ways. You can either get more time or have...