Posts Tagged ‘Business Innovation Factory’
Tales from the BIF
by John O. Harney
September 25, 2012
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The Business Innovation Factory (BIF) held its eighth annual collaborative innovation summit on Sept. 19 and 20 in Providence, and the key, as always, was the art of storytelling. No themes, said summit facilitator and BIF founder and “chief catalyst” Saul Kaplan. You decide which connections you ...
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The Student Experience Brought to You by … Students!
by Christine Flanagan
March 27, 2012
Why students should play a designer role in the creation of new (and better!) school experiences.
Choosing a school is only the first step in planning an academic career. After making a selection, students must match interests and passions with an academic program and make important decisions about which courses to take and when to take ...
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Tell Me Another One: More Stories from the Business Innovation Factory
by John O. Harney
October 7, 2011
What would it be like if work and play were more alike?
That was the dangerous question raised by Stanford University behavioral scientist Byron Reeves at the BIF-7 conference in downtown Providence on Sept. 20 and 21.
Reeves had met J. Leighton Read at a soccer game in Silicon Valley, and they began ...
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Tell Me a Story: Reporting from the BIF-6 Conference in Providence
by John O. Harney
September 27, 2010
A few hundred people packed the Trinity Rep theater in downtown Providence Wednesday, Sept. 15, and Thursday, Sept. 16, with ears and minds open. More than a dozen entrepreneurs and artists told stories of how they used innovation and social technologies to help solve problems from protecting mothers in childbirth to ...
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No. 9 … No. 9 … No. 9 (Rebels and Rabbis and other Stories from BIF-9)
by John O. Harney
September 24, 2013
I was at Providence’s Trinity Rep last week covering the Business Innovation Factory's (BIF's) summit of innovators—BIF’s ninth, my fourth. The lineup of speakers—“storytellers” in BIF parlance—included puppeteers, rebels at work, an innovative rabbi, educators and assorted other visionaries. The audience: about 400 self-assessed innovators, some with job titles like Chief Sorceress and Disruptor. The BIF theme: ...
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