Wendy Kopp - Teach for America
Blog:Wendy Kopp (Teach for America) spoke at World Innovation Forum about the major challenges education faces. Your education opportunities depend on where you are born. How fair is that?Teach for America's mission (from their web site)Our mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort.
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Jim Estill
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Brian Shawn Cohen - next technology
Blog:World Innovation Forum speaker was Brian Shawn Cohen.Interesting to me since he is an angel investor. Why companies fail. They confuse clear vision with short distance (just because you can see the goal - does not mean it is easy)Ego and greed
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Jim Estill
Seth Godin - Marketing Innovation
Blog:I am blogging live at day 2 of World Innovation Forum. The day started with a demo by Panasonic of an awesome (but $30,000 per site) video conferencing system. Awesome 1080 resolution, perfect audio and no choppiness. It takes 3 megabytes of bandwidth. I look forward to these becoming pervasive. It helps communication, time management, and the environment. Seems compelling.
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Jim Estill
Andreas Weigend - Marketing and Web 3.0
Blog:Andreas Weigend, previous chief scientist from Amazon spoke at World Innovation Forum. History for him:1800s - Transport energy - Industrial revolution1900s - Transport Data - Information revolution2000 - Create Data - Social Media revolutionAll the statistics are available on the web (including your competitors). But with the overwhelming amount of data, can you properly analyse it?
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Jim Estill
Chip Heath - Switch Implementing Change when Change is Hard
Blog:Chip Heath (one of my favorite authors) started by scaring us with some hard facts:Change is hard.Change is feudal.People resist change.But is that true? Many changes like the change from ketchup being the number one condiment to salsa today actually happened. Or the biggest change in life - having kids.
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Jim Estill
Jeff Kindler - Leading Change
Blog:Jeff Kindler is CEO of Pfizer. He was interviewed today at the World Innovation Forum. On "how do you reward innovation at Pfizer?"He spoke of the power of the small with the scale or the large. It is about balancing. (I have always said "The goal is to be a big company but act like a small one").
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Jim Estill
Michael Howe - Minute Clinic
Blog:The speaker now at World Innovation Forum is Michael Howe - former CEO of Minute Clinic. He took it from 19 clinics to 500. This is a clinic located in CVS drug stores that eventually sold to CVS that does no appointment health care appointments. This innovation has been touted by Forbes Magazine as the biggest (or only) healthcare innovation in America.One challenge or concern when this was implemented was that prescriptions would soar. They did not increase.
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Jim Estill
Michael Porter on Redefining Health Care
Blog:The first speaker at World Innovation Forum was Harvard professor and author Michael Porter. He spoke about health care (he wrote a book - Redefining Health Care).
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Jim Estill
World Innovation Forum - Day 1 #WIF10
Blog:I am all set up to blog at World Innovation Forum.I read a book today -Service Innovation - How to go from Customer Needs to Breakthrough Services. It is a fitting book to read at an innovation forum since it is about innovation of services. We often think of product innovations without thinking that more often, customers value services.
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Jim Estill
Bright Triumphs Fom Dark Hours: Turning Adversity Into Success
Blog:I am looking forward to World Innovation Forum (#WIF10) later this week, where I will be blogging live.
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Jim Estill