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View the full archive of Innovation Tip of the Week The Urgent and the important Setting priorities and reduced podcast frequency. MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dragon NaturallySpeaking Lessons from a breakthrough product MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovations to Watch 2007 - Nintendo's Wii What's hot? What's not? Covering the Nintendo Wii... MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Metabolix catching a wave Will sustainable economics extend to plastics? My guest Carl Berke does not think so. Metabolix, a small public company in Cambridge, thinks different. MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Limits to growth in corporate innovation Ford has adopted innovation as its new theme, and a number of studies indicate that growth through innovation is the top priority in most large companies. Yet the same studies provide some reasons why corporate innovation performance has been so poor.MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Public Prototyping As an antidote to "crowding out" of corporate innovation efforts, consider public prototyping commitments.MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Brazil succeeds with biofuels Thanks to a series of innovations, ranging from flex fuel cars to process improvements in sugar processing, Brazil plans to be energy independent in 2006. Bio-fuels have enabled the country to keep its use of gasoline from growing, and have also revitalized its sugar industry. Can other countries follow in Brazil's path?MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: One big problem for ethanol in the U.S. While Brazil's ethanol industry has become successful over 20 years, there is one big problem with ethanol in the US - gas stations...MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Pfizer and Exubera On 27 January, 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Exubera, Pfizer’s new inhalable form of insulin. Will the product succeed? The pharmaceutical industry thinks so, but history demonstrates that its success may not be so assured.MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Innovations to Watch 2006 Judging by the products on offer, 2006 will be a vintage year for innovations, following on a very good 2005 and a mediocre 2004.This is the fifth year I've previewed innovations to watch.. and in this update, I'll talk about one of the most intriguing innovations ... E85 Ethanol.MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Wal-mart's new products Wal-Mart thinks it can do a better job in identifying successful new products than can its suppliers, sophisticated consumer products companies like Coke and Procter and Gamble.They may be right!MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Foxes and Rabbits Can big companies innovate? One corporate insider thinks not, and some research backs him up.MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: "BHAGs" for Innovators Back in 1994, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras wrote about the importance of "big hairy audacious goals," or BHAGs in their book "Built to Last." What does this look like for an innovator?MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: "IBHAG" for Companies An earlier podcast talked about Innovation BHAGs or IBHAGs. How can companies use these to improve performance?MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: American Idol and Errors of Omission The TV show "American Idol" is a huge hit in the US, but it was turned down by all the networks before Rupert Murdoch pushed Fox to buy it. This post discusses why this may be true.MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Sony, Blu-Ray, and the S curve Sony is trying to put a brand new technology into its "bet the company product," the PS3. Here's why it's going to have big problems.MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Future of law firm innovation What are future prospects for law firm innovation? My research suggests that clients need to play a bigger role.MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Line and Staff Tools Different kinds of innovation tools have very different characteristics -- line vs staff is one way to think about them.MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Internet Groceries 2.0 No more webvan but look at FreshDirect!MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Tip: Pfizer's Silver Lining What's good about cancelling the only blockbuster you have in development?MP3 File Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website