Archive for the ‘Innovation’ Category

Four Chief Information Officer/IS Executives Sharing their Strategies and Experience

Check out the full presentations by innovation and information technology experts from Sony, Guitar Center, County of Orange, and the Center for CIO Leadership.

October 14th, 2011 - By Graziadio Business Review


PODCAST: Self-Organizing Conversation as an Invitation to Serendipity with Dr. Stephen R. Axley

 Click here to listen and subscribe in iTunes U Where do truly great ideas come from? Is it possible to purposefully discover serendipity? How do people share information in ways to expand what they know? Stephen R. Axley, PhD believes that the answer to these questions lies in something we all do naturally, on [...]

March 15th, 2011 - By Audra Quinn


Invention vs. Innovation

Miner explores the definitions of innovation and invention to improve the process by which companies prepare for, create, and develop new products.

November 24th, 2010 - By Kris Miner, MBA


Social Media Strategy Is More Than Just Signing Up

Currently at the Graziadio Business Report we are in the process of revamping our website – having reached the upper limits of the current platform.  Tackling the usual web development project activities – planning, executing, monitoring – we’re now confronted with the task of developing our social media implementation.  Though our initial impulse was to approach social media [...]

March 1st, 2010 - By Jeremy Dukesherer


New or Different?

During a recent talk to a group of small business owners on the practice of innovation, someone asked this interesting question: “Which is better: new or different?” The question gave me pause—first, because we tend to think of the two terms as almost the same thing, and second, because I had never actually considered forcing [...]

November 23rd, 2009 - By Matthew May, Supporting Faculty


What’s on Your NOT-To-Do List?

Can’t see the above video? Click here to watch or you can read the transcript. In this video interview, Matthew May, supporting faculty at the Graziadio School of Business and Management, and author of the recently released book, In Pursuit of Elegance:Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing, discusses the four principles of elegance: symmetry, [...]

July 27th, 2009 - By Matthew May, Supporting Faculty


Why Entrepreneurship Thrives During a Recession

Can’t see the above video? Click this link to watch or you can read the transcript. In this video interview, Larry Cox, PhD, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and director of the new entrepreneurship program at the Graziadio School of Business and Management, discusses how smart entrepreneurs take advantage of low opportunity and material costs during [...]

July 7th, 2009 - By Larry Cox, PhD, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship