Glimpses into the future of Search, Computing, and Technology

Posted on25. Jul, 2010 by Jeff Dance.

As we prepare for the future, we look to emergent innovation, not just continuous innovation.  To help understand what’s coming, we hypothesize on the near term, mid term, and long term timing of a few concepts worth watching a video about (below).  While emergent vs. continuous could be argued for the concepts below, all are [...]

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Social Media 201 Conference at Microsoft’s Conference Center: taking your social media efforts to the next level of engagement, profitability, and ROI

Posted on19. Mar, 2010 by Brent Dance.

REDMOND, Wash. March 18th, 2010 – On April 15, 2010 the Social Media 201 Conference will be hosted at Microsoft’s Conference Center in Redmond, Washington. Social Media 201 is designed to help organizations take their social media strategy, tactics, and implementation to the next level of customer engagement, profitability, and ROI. This one day event [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 Technology delivers more Efficiency (4 of 10)

Posted on09. Dec, 2009 by Jeff Dance.

More Efficiency (part 4 of 10-part Enterprise 2.0 series introduced here)
Our approach to efficiency is outdated
The scientific management movement developed distinct processes to decouple management and labor and break down skills into discrete automated tasks with the goal of removing inefficiencies and implementing measurement and control. It worked. The more efficient you were, [...]

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Three years of analysis later, McKinsey says YES, Web 2.0 technology brings business results

Posted on25. Sep, 2009 by Brent Dance.

Call it a culture shift, call it new technologies, call it a consumer fad, call it what you will, Web 2.0 is worth it for business.

Web 2.0 is worth it for business

McKinsey Quarterly’s “Global Survey” analyzed responses from 1,700 executives to derive the business benefits gained from using Web 2.0 tools across three areas: internal [...]

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The Fresh Consulting Logo unveils its simple yet sophisticated story

Posted on28. Aug, 2009 by Jeff Dance.

Our ideal for the Fresh Consulting logo was for it to be simple, yet sophisticated.  In fact, long before we settled on the name Fresh Consulting, we were thinking of naming our group the “Occams Razor Group.” In summary, “Occams Razor” means “simple yet sophisticated.” A beautiful principle and a lofty goal [...]

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We spend our whole life trying to ensure security, but Entrepreneurial Innovation is all about risk!

Posted on26. Oct, 2008 by Jeff Dance.

Our Safety Net of Insurance

We spend our whole life trying to buy security from the unknown, to ensure KNOWN outcomes so that we are protected from everything that might be UNKNOWN…such as a death, a car accident, a fire.
We got life insurance, healthcare insurance, car insurance, disability insurance, homeowners insurance, personal property insurance, casualty insurance, [...]

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5 Reasons why collaboration contributes to innovation

Posted on27. Sep, 2008 by Jeff Dance.

Almost all of the recent books, blogs, and papers supporting innovation highlight the importance of collaboration.  Why?  For many years, the sole inventor was told that people working together can lead to groupthink–too much consensus and convergent thinking.  While these ideas have reason, they can easily be overcome.  Collaboration is a central theme to innovation [...]

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Creativity is the highest form of intelligence

Posted on13. Sep, 2008 by Jeff Dance.

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence because it goes beyond knowledge recall and extends into knowledge creation.   Someone intelligent can be very knowledgeable and have excellent information recall (lets say for a standardized test), but creativity and innovation require some novel form of intelligence that is of a higher order.
Studies have shown that highly [...]

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So your leader asks everyone to be more “innovative”? What do they specifically want you to do?

Posted on23. Aug, 2008 by Jeff Dance.

Innovation is a top priority for leadership, as expressed in the recent IBM global CEO study.  It sounds great to us when we hear our leaders express the need to innovate, but what do they really mean?  The definition of innovation–something fresh or new that we value–can only take our understanding so far.   Here are [...]

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Understanding what we really mean when we use the word “Innovation”

Posted on23. Aug, 2008 by Jeff Dance.

Scott Berkun, author of the book “The Myths of Innovation”, recently suggested that we use the word innovation too often in a vague way and we have diverse intended meanings.  I can’t argue with him. Its used carelessly to suggest a number of different things and has lately been a popular buzz word for [...]

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