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March 2010 Brightidea Sponsors Blogging Innovation for March 2010

Thank you to Brightidea for sponsoring Blogging Innovation for the month of March.

Brightidea is the market leader in On-Demand Innovation Management. Over 300 businesses around the world use its Software-as-a-Service suite to transform their employee, partner and customer ideas into a reality. The Brightidea platform is a flexible, scalable, and standards-based system that provides end-to-end tracking of the innovation process from concept through to realization. The company’s software has been successfully deployed at: Adobe, Bosch, Cisco, Harley-Davidson, Experian, Emerson, British Telecom, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Honeywell, among others. Founded in 1999, Brightidea is closely held and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit www.brightidea.com.

If you would like to sponsor Blogging Innovation for April 2010 or any future month, please contact us.

Blogging Innovation to cover Economist event in Berkeley, CA - March 23-24, 2010

Blogging Innovation will be covering The Economist's "Innovation: Fresh Thinking For The Ideas Economy" event in Berkeley, CA from March 23-24, 2010. Speakers are scheduled to include: Clayton Christensen, Michael Porter, Arianna Huffington, David Kelley, Paul Saffo, Roger Martin, Judy Estrin, John Kao, and more.

Save $150 - As a value-added service to our Blogging Innovation readers, if you register with discount code "BLINN" you will save $150 on your registration. Register now.

January 2010 Blogging Innovation Growing Strong

Blogging Innovation has risen into the Top 0.5% of all web sites on the Internet - in terms of traffic to the web site. Blogging Innovation served up over 400,000 pages to 200,000+ unique visits in the month of January.

Blogging Innovation's mission is to make innovation and marketing insights accessible for the greater good. If you have ideas on how we can spread innovation and marketing effectiveness knowledge further, or would like to contribute to Blogging Innovation's mission in some way, please do not hesitate to contact us.

November 2009 New Business Strategy Innovation Partnership in Chile

Business Strategy Innovation is proud to announce its new partnership with TRIADA Innovacion to provide innovation consulting services in Chile. TRIADA Innovacion is led by Dr. Monica Herrera, PhD (Managing Partner) and Manuel Carreno (Consulting Manager). TRIADA Innovacion will be working to provide Business Strategy Innovation's unique combination of innovation best practices and proprietary methodologies to local clients.

October 2009 Braden Kelley Signs Innovation Book Deal with John Wiley & Sons

Braden Kelley has signed a book deal with leading publisher John Wiley & Sons for an innovation book project to tentatively be published in 2010.

Press Mention - Inc. - "Innovation Nation"

Braden Kelley was interviewed by the nice people at Inc. for an article titled "Innovation Nation" for Dell Partner Direct. I encourage you to click through and check out this article.

Featured Blogger - Optimizing Innovation - New York City - October 21-22, 2009

Braden Kelley has been invited to cover the Optimizing Innovation 2009 conference this October in New York City.

Braden plans to blog for Blogging Innovation and vlog during the event for Innovation Interviews (interviewing as many speakers and attendees as possible). If you will be at this conference and would like to connect, please contact me.

September 2009 Building Innovation Strategy and Capabilities

Business Strategy Innovation worked with Millicom International Cellular, also known as Tigo, to analyze their African operations' current state of innovation readiness. In addition, working with the regional leadership team, we created an innovation strategy for Tigo Africa, defined an initial portfolio of innovation projects, and outlined an innovation capabilities development plan.

Blogging Innovation Rises to the Top

Blogging Innovation has risen into the Top 1% of all web sites on the Internet - in terms of traffic to the web site.

Blogging Innovation's mission is to make innovation and marketing insights accessible for the greater good. This is why we try and bring you the best innovation and marketing insights articles from around the web that we can. After all, the more people know, the more efficient they can be in running our organizations, and the more efficient our organizations are in meeting the needs of their customers, the less waste there is in the system and in our environment.

If you have ideas on how we can spread innovation and marketing effectiveness knowledge further, or would like to contribute to Blogging Innovation's mission in some way, please do not hesitate to contact us.

August 2009 Featured Blogger - World Business Forum - New York City - October 6-7, 2009

Braden Kelley has been invited to be a featured blogger at the World Business Forum 2009 this October in New York City.

Braden plans to blog for Blogging Innovation and vlog during the event for Innovation Interviews (interviewing as many speakers and attendees as possible). If you will be at this conference and would like to connect, please contact me.

As a reward to our loyal readers, if you register now for this conference, you can save $100 with our discount code INNOVATE (or $200 if you also sign up for the October 8, 2009 Gary Hamel seminar). Book by September 25, 2009 and you will also get a substantial early bird discount.

Braden Kelley Signs Literary Agent for New Innovation Book Project

Braden Kelley has signed John Willig of Literary Services, Inc. to represent his new innovation book project. John represented Matthew E. May on "In Pursuit of Elegance" and Thomas Koulopoulos on "The Innovation Zone" (among others).

July 2009 Blogging Innovation Now Open to Outside Authors

Braden Kelley has opened up Blogging Innovation to outside authors. Several authors have already signed on, including: Rowan Gibson, Stephen Shapiro, Matthew E. May, Hutch Carpenter, Kevin Roberts, Fahrenheit 212, Mike Brown, Drew Boyd, Mike Myatt, Paul Sloane, and Matt Heinz.

Please contact us if you would like to be published on Blogging Innovation (Alexa Rank - Top 2%).

August 13-14, 2009 - Braden Kelley at Spigit Innovation Summit

Braden Kelley has been invited to contribute to the Spigit Innovation Summit on August 13-14, 2009 at the Four Seasons Resort Aviara in Carlsbad, CA. Gary Hamel will be the keynote speaker at this event.

Braden plans to tweet and blog for Blogging Innovation during the event. If you will be at this event and would like to connect, please contact me.

July 28, 2009 - Braden Kelley at Brightidea Birds of a Feather 3.0

Braden Kelley has been invited to contribute to the Brightidea Birds of a Feather 3.0 event at Chevron headquarters in San Ramon, CA on July 28, 2009.

Braden plans to tweet and blog for Blogging Innovation during the event. If you will be at this event and would like to connect, please contact me.

June 2009 Some of Blogging Innovation Now Available in Portuguese

Your can now find some of the Blogging Innovation articles by Braden Kelley translated into Portuguese and available on Portal Gestão - A Business Portal headquartered in Portugal.

Featured Blogger - incentive2innovate - United Nations - June 8-9, 2009

Braden Kelley has been invited to be a featured blogger at the incentive2innovate conference at the United Nations this June in New York City.

Braden plans to blog for Blogging Innovation and vlog during the event for the forthcoming Innovation Interviews site (interviewing as many speakers and attendees as possible). If you will be at this conference and would like to connect, please contact me.

Business Strategy Innovation - A Marketing Audit

Business Strategy Innovation performed a marketing audit for Madison Properties to provide insights and recommendations on how they can take their business to the next level.

May 2009 "Blogging Innovation" - Now Available for Amazon Kindle

Subscribe to Braden Kelley's "Blogging Innovation" feed for the Amazon Kindle here.

Braden Kelley Speaks on Seattle Pacific University Panel

Braden Kelley will be speaking May 15, 2009 on a panel at a Seattle Pacific University seminar - "Change management: Transforming organizations to higher levels of performance" - taught by Don Summers.

April 2009 Business Strategy Innovation Planning the Future

Business Strategy Innovation wins contract to work with the world's largest software company to help with FY10 planning for the Consumer and Online business.

March 2009 Featured Blogger - World Innovation Forum - New York City - May 5-6, 2009

Braden Kelley has been invited to be a featured blogger at the World Innovation Forum 2009 this May in New York City.

Braden plans to blog for Blogging Innovation and vlog during the event for the forthcoming Innovation Interviews site (interviewing as many speakers and attendees as possible). If you will be at this conference and would like to connect, please contact me.

As a reward to our loyal readers, if you register now for this conference, you can save $200 with our discount code INNOVATE. Book by March 13, 2009 and you will get an additional early bird discount.

February 2009 Featured Blogger - Washington Innovation Summit - Seattle - April 9, 2009

Braden Kelley has been invited to be a featured blogger at the Washington Innovation Summit 2009 this April in Seattle.

Braden plans to blog for Blogging Innovation and vlog during the event for the forthcoming Innovation Interviews site (interviewing as many speakers and attendees as possible). If you will be at this conference and would like to connect, please contact me.

To find out more about the Washington Innovation Summit, and to register, please go here.

August 2008 Seminar - Mastering Value Innovation - Dubai - TBD

Braden Kelley will be presenting a five-day seminar on Mastering Value Innovation for KAVAQ Business Intelligence in Dubai sometime in 2009. Building upon the work collected in Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, Braden will help seminar participants better understand how to put the theory into practice and radically transform the profitability of their businesses. In addition to value innovation content, Braden will be presenting proprietary content on creating continuous innovation.

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March 2008 Business Strategy Innovation Targeting the Future

Business Strategy Innovation wins contract to work with a leading marketing agency and the world's largest software company to deepen customer relationships and engagement through an evolved relationship marketing strategy that focuses on targeting and relevancy to deliver more value to customers.

June 2007 Braden Kelley at Seattle BizJam Conference on June 9, 2007

Braden Kelley, Founder of Business Strategy Innovation, spoke at the Seattle BizJam Conference on June 9, 2007.

Details of the talk on "Are You Good Enough to Succeed Against the Big Guys?" can be found on the Seattle BizJam site. Reactions included:

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May 2007 Business Strategy Innovation assists Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions

Business Strategy Innovation wins contract to work with Wunderman and Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions to deepen customer relationships and engagement with standard segment search advertisers (yielding improved retention and customer spend).

February 2007 Misys – Identifying Opportunities in Misys Healthcare Global Software R&D Process

Business Strategy Innovation was brought in by Synergetics Installations Worldwide to analyze Misys Healthcare’s global software R&D process and identify areas of opportunity for process and productivity improvements in their operations in India and the United States. Opportunities were identified that should yield annual cost reductions in excess of 10%, accelerate release cycles, and improve quality.

November 2006

Business Strategy Innovation wins another Microsoft Contract

Business Strategy Innovation wins contract to build a Balanced Scorecard for Microsoft's WWLP executives to use for business performance management of metrics and projects.

October 2006

Business Strategy Innovation works again with Wunderman and Microsoft

Business Strategy Innovation chosen to work with Wunderman and Microsoft to help build new engagement Strategy.

May 2006

Business Strategy Innovation chosen to work with Young & Rubicam Brands and Wunderman

Young & Rubicam Brands has engaged a Business Strategy Innovation consultant to lead a change management program. The program's goal will be to strengthen Young & Rubicam Brands' relationship with Microsoft and to increase their execution excellence in the delivery of relationship marketing campaigns and materials on behalf of Microsoft.

November 2005

Business Strategy Innovation wins 2nd Microsoft Contract

Microsoft Business Solutions has contracted a Business Strategy Innovation consultant to develop an end-to-end picture of all of the policies in place in Microsoft Business Solutions and present recommendations for integration of a variety of divergent policies that come from a series of acquisitions.

September 2005

Microsoft Operations selects Business Strategy Innovation

Microsoft Operations has selected Business Strategy Innovation to deliver thought leadership on organizational effectiveness. Deliverables included policies and processes for the management of executive action items, help with the rhythm of the business calendar, input into the communication plan, and guidance on meeting effectiveness.

April 2005

Fotoswap.com consults Business Strategy Innovation for New Marketing Strategy

Fotoswap was in need of guidance on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies and leadership on the creation of an overall online marketing strategy. Business Strategy Innovation delivered this to the leading peer-to-peer online photo sharing company.

July 2004

Business Strategy Innovation helps Holiday-Rentals.com to the next level

Europe's number one vacation rental by owner site wanted to understand whether their substantial online marketing spend was profitable or not. They needed an understanding of how visitors were using their site in order to attract even more visitors to the site, and looked to us for help in identifying new ways to maximize the value of the online traffic they already have.

April 2004

Business Strategy Innovation Advises e-pay on Future Direction

e-pay met with Business Strategy Innovation executives to better understand some of the possibilities for growing their business. e-pay is a leading provider of mobile phone top-up solutions in the United Kingdom. Business Strategy Innovation shared with e-pay findings from their primary and secondary research that showed where key revenue growth opportunities were to be found.

November 2003

Apple and British Airways Partner with Business Strategy Innovation on Inflight Experience Possibility

We worked with British Airways and Apple Computer to evaulate the feasability of a Business Strategy Innovation concept that arose out of the Industry Re-Think previously presented to British Airways and other major players in the airline industry. The concept was to create an experiental sales and rental opportunity in-flight for the Apple iPod and Business Strategy Innovation facilitated a relationship between the two companies to explore further retailing possibilities.

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