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  1. mechanical tasks: higher $ reward = better performance. cognitive tasks: larger reward leads to poorer performance @danielpink WIF11
  2. Getting away from cliche motivational speeches, @danielpink approaches motivation from a nerdy perspective: #socialscience #WIF11
  3. next big thing: NETWORKS: companies banding together to access hundreds of companies; leverage ecosystems in a many-to-many model #WIF11
  4. cost innovation helps drive new concepts you might not otherwise come across #LarryHuston #WIF11
  5. #LarryHuston uses China as e.g. of effective cost innovation. There, you can name your price point and design a product accordingly #WIF11
  6. “Everyone talks about cost reduction. I prefer to call it cost innovation.” #LarryHuston #WIF11
  7. P&G went across domains for new ideas: used electrostatic car spraying technology and applied to makeup industry #LarryHuston #WIF11
  8. innovation in your company is not just theory. it's about knowing who your customers are. #LarryHuston #WIF11
  9. innovating = asking the right questions, reframing the problem & connecting to the world #LarryHuston #WIF11
  10. there are 18K innovation fairs around the world, and yet there is rarely any cross-fair transfer of info #LarryHuston #WIF11
  11. Pringles growth entrepreneur put potato dough thru her ink jet printer to test out new concept of printing images on chips - Huston #WIF11
  12. GoldCorp adopted tech for mining: posted geo info online; invited virtual miners to recommend drilling sites for cash reward ($95K) #WIF11
  13. Core innovation process: identify target customers, identify their needs, create new solutions that solve their needs - Larry Huston #WIF11
  14. "As managers, we must ask: Do we have the right model for all the capabilities and tech available TODAY?" - Krishnan #WIF11
  15. N=1 (The Centrality of Personalized Experience): provide platform so consumers can create a role in their own customer experience #WIF11
  16. "You don't have to own the resources you give access to anymore. Google doesn't." #business model #WIF11 M.S. Krishnan (via @diane_berard)
  17. past 100 years, device carriers held power; last 2-3 years, the power is balancing btwn carriers and device manufacturers - Krishnan #WIF11
  18. trend: pervasive digitization of biz: emerging, embedded intel that exists in appliances, automobiles and smart phones - Krishnan #WIF11
  19. trend: ubiquitous connectivity: for the first time, we have 5B people connected via some form of tech or another - Krishnan #WIF11
  20. We should be building business models so we can defy them - M.S. Krishnan #WIF11