Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson

 
"Where Good Ideas Come From"
 When: Available on demand
 Where: Your Computer
 Duration: 1:07 (hours:minutes)
 

 

Have you ever wondered how to spark industry-changing innovation in your company? Do you wish you could find a way to unleash the untapped brilliance of your team – but find yourself at a loss?

Now you can learn how, from best-selling author Steven Johnson, author of six books that look at how science and technology are changing our world.

At a time when no company can afford to fall behind in innovation, you can benefit from what he has discovered about encouraging great ideas to take hold in your organization.  This is a can’t-miss program for those who want to come up with the kind of ideas that change the world.

In Where Good Ideas Come From, Johnson explores the patterns that recur in environments that have a long track record of generating innovative thinking, from the design of corporate workplaces to the virtual environments of media platforms like the World Wide Web or Facebook.

Any organization that values innovation as a core principle – and not a potential threat – can foster these patterns at different scales of the work environment.

 

This seminar covers some key topics:


  • The Slow Hunch. Johnson shows you how to encourage the gradual incubation of ideas, using the techniques that Google and 3M have pioneered.
  • The Liquid Network. You'll learn how to encourage innovation among your team, while also encouraging your employees to have open-ended conversations with those outside of the organization – so their ideas will evolve into something even more enduring.
  • Diversity. You'll get advice on connecting your team top people with diverse talents and fields of expertise, to help them think outside of the confines of narrow professional disciplines.
  • Learning from open platforms. You'll learn how companies such as Google,Twitter and Facebook have driven profit and innovation using such open-source platforms that don't depend on one central authority to make the rules.

Johnson's books include the best-seller The Ghost-Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Outbreak – and How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World


Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson is the best-selling author of seven books on the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. His writings have influenced everything from the way political campaigns use the Internet, to cutting-edge ideas in urban planning, to the battle against 21st-century terrorism. In 2010, he was chosen by Prospect magazine as one of the Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future.

His latest book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, was a finalist for the 800CEORead award for best business book of 2010, and was ranked as one of the year's best books by The Economist. His book The Ghost Map was one of the ten best nonfiction books of 2006 according to Entertainment Weekly. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Steven has also co-created three influential web sites: the pioneering online magazine FEED, the Webby-Award-winning community site, Plastic.com, and most recently the hyperlocal media site outside.in, which was acquired by AOL in 2011. He serves on the advisory boards of a number of Internet-related companies, including Meetup.com, Betaworks, and Nerve.

Steven is a contributing editor to Wired magazine and is the 2009 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at The Journalism School, Columbia University. He won the Newhouse School fourth annual Mirror Awards for his TIME magazine cover article titled "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live." Steven has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and many other periodicals. He has appeared on many high-profile television programs, including The Charlie Rose Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He lectures widely on technological, scientific, and cultural issues. He blogs at stevenberlinjohnson.com and is @stevenbjohnson on Twitter. He lives in Marin County, California with his wife and three sons.

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