Category Archives: bif-2

Jane Fulton Suri from Ideo spoke about “redefining research for innovation.” She gave her story in three parts: personal journey, how it played out, and what the future holds. Grew up in an artistic family, sought structure (in data, in … Continue reading →

Clay Rockefeller of the Steelyard had to get one formality out of the way first: “Yes, I am a Rockefeller Rockefeller”. It has opened doors but also created some big shoes to fill. The label of being an Innovater makes … Continue reading →

Jim Lavoie of RITE Solutions is up now. Some prop comedy that I can’t do justice to here. Innovation intervention. Management intervention… In-turd-vention. “Tell us about your latest innovation.” But… Your invention needs… Investment… Further investigation… Sales guarantees. Keep it … Continue reading →

Larry Keeley of Doblin, Inc. was up next. Sometimes things change… When Edison sunk his teeth into the lightbulb problem, the current designs of bulbs were getting 7 minutes. Edison would obsessively and compulsively try different filaments (he even tried … Continue reading →

Mark Hellendrung of Narragansett Beer opened a ‘Gansett on stage at 11am. Will he drink it? It’s foaming up. He loves beer. His story with beer starts a few years ago, when he was unemployed. He was having a beer, … Continue reading →

Diane Hessan of Communispace has always been interested in marketing and customers. Her parents don’t have footage of her playing sports, ballet, etc., but instead acting out an Ivory Soap commercial. Thinking about the movie Big, in which Tom Hanks’ … Continue reading →

Tim is the founder of Pandora.com, and a musician. He started out wondering how a listener finds musicians, and realized that we all have a “genome” in our head for the music we love. Tim wondered how he could put … Continue reading →

How do you turn your thoughts into action? John Donoghue a Brown Professor who is working with Cyberkinetics; he’s telling the story of how they took it from the laboratory into a company. BrainGate is a product for turning thought … Continue reading →

Next up is Ivy Ross, who has run design departments in Fortune 500 companies for 25 years now. How do you accelerate the process of getting a team into the “zone”? How do you put a team in the right … Continue reading →

Alexander Tsiaras is into high-end visualization of the human body. The software his company (InVisionGuide.com) works on basically lets you drill down into their massive store of data on the structure of the human body. Their web site has a … Continue reading →