According to ABCNews.com, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said today that “dealing with (the White House) the last couple months has been like dealing with Jell-O. Some days it’s firmer than others. Sometimes it’s like they’ve left it out over night.” So, with the democrats and republicans unable to negotiate, who can we turn to [...]
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Declare Your Support for Innovation in the United States
On July 4, 1776, our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. On July 4 this year, we ask that you sign the Declaration of Innovation. Sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association’s Innovation Movement (CEA), the Declaration of Innovation is an online pledge, open to Americans, in “support of policies that ensure innovation remains the [...]
Raising Money Requires Critical Thinking
Two weeks ago, St. Louis City residents voted overwhelmingly to extend an earnings tax applied to anyone who lives or works in the City for five more years. This 1 percent tax is the City’s single largest source of revenue, accounting for about one-third of its budget. Without this revenue, St. Louis City would be [...]
A Plea for Collaboration
In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. government is on the brink of a shutdown. If the White House and Congress don’t come to an agreement on this year’s budget by midnight tonight, 800,000 government jobs will be furloughed, soldiers will not be paid and vital government services will be interrupted. Blame, of course, is [...]
Tackling the World’s Biggest Challenges with Design
Wouldn’t it be great if we could change the world with design? That is exactly what IDEO plans to do with the creation of IDEO.org, a new 501c3 corporation. IDEO.org is built out of the understanding that the same thinking used to design new products, services and models for business can be used to design [...]
The Future Demands Collaboration, Ideation, Implementation and Value Creation
According to a recent Washington Post poll, “a growing number of Americans consider the accelerating trend toward globalization a bad thing for the United States. At the same time, a majority now sees being the world’s No. 1 economic power as an important national goal.” We face change that has caught us off guard. The [...]
The State of the Union’s Innovation
While watching President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the recommendations put forth by the National Academies’ Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century in its 2005 report on U.S. competitiveness. The report, called “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing [...]
A Message of Peace at New Years
As the years ends and we begin to welcome the possibilities of 2011, I thought it appropriate to highlight a portion of Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjørn Jagland’s speech awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 to Liu Xiaobo. Liu, a Chinese dissident writer and human rights activist, was absent from the December 10 ceremony [...]
Will Government Innovate Better with a Bipartisan Congress?
Forty-two percent of registered voters in the United States turned out Tuesday to express their dissatisfaction with the current government’s actions by electing a Republican majority to the House of Representatives and decreasing the gap between the parties in the Senate. For me, this wasn’t a big surprise. There’s a lot of frustration out there, [...]
What Does Tuesday’s Midterm Election Mean for Innovation in the United States?
For a couple years now, I’ve been receiving weekly e-mails from the Innovation Movement, a “coalition of Americans who believe innovation is the key to reviving the global economy and creating new American jobs,” sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Generally, the e-mails act as newsletters sharing the latest on innovation in government, business [...]