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CEO of SRI International to 2014: think Siri, HDTV, and the mouse. Now a professor teaching "Innovation for Impact" at WPI and Northeastern.

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"Experiential Education in the Age of AI." All professionals must identify and address the needs of others. That is the discipline of value creation but few graduates master that skill today. With AI Tutors it can be taught throughout the university.
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Creating a generation of graduates who thrive by providing skills to identify and address problems that matter to others. Summary The Unmet Need: In the Age of AI, the critical professional skill is...
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Curt Carlson, PhD
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"Challenge + Skills + Hard Work Creates Meaning" Most professionals lack the value creation skills to be successful. Addressing this unmet need would profoundly improve society's innovative results and provide more meaning to employees. https://t.co/vy4SFK8AXg via @LinkedIn
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Why I teach the disciplines of value creation and innovation A Noble Craft: As a little boy, I admired my uncle, Fred Carlson. He was a carpenter with an enviable commitment to his trade.
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The most effective method for helping teams identify their unmnet customer need. Teams are good at identifying problems, but problems are seldon actual needs to be addressed. Innovation is like peeling an onion, removing one layer of Limiting Factors at a time.
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Iterate, iterate, iterate. Most give up before they learn what to do. Many lessons here. #innovation
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Value creation is as challenging as mastering a musical instrument. Engage with your team and learn what works while doing your job. All it takes is lunch every two weeks over pizza, a salad, and coke. All the background you need is free at Coursera. https://t.co/gs9GJuAjnB
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Development of a Value Creation Enterprise: The path to systematic innov... https://t.co/FgsPgJ4azH via @YouTube
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Curt Carlson, PhD
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Value creation is seldom taught, but a responsibility of all professionals. Imagine if MDs operated immediately after college. But value creation is as challenging. We can profoundly improve our performance by giving value-creation skills to our university graduates. #innovation
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Curt Carlson, PhD
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How to Be a Company Superstar: If you work in a typical company, you might feel unappreciated and often ignored. You may be unhappy, discouraged, and unmotivated but uncertain about finding another company. This is what you can do.
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Ten steps to becoming a uniquely valuable professional with endless opportunities Introduction If you work in a typical company, you might feel unappreciated and often ignored. You might think of...
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Curt Carlson, PhD
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I gave the keynote at NSF's conference for those running NSF's $50M center programs. I proposed an NSF Grand Challenge to improve performance by 10X. It would be NSF's most important initiative because improving innovative performace is an exponential amplifier of all progress.
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Curt Carlson, PhD
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Concepts we taught all professionals when I was CEO of SRI International. Why don't business schools teach value creation, the responsibility of all professionals? #innovations #GDruckerForum
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Curt Carlson, PhD
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Most people don't think like this and the waste we see is stunning. Very few professionals understand the process of value creation, which is solving problems important to others. Not just problems, but ones with meaning for others. #innovation #GDruckerForum
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Curt Carlson, PhD
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These 2 articles are important. If we must double our R&D every 13 years to grow at our current rate we have a huge problem. Growth has been slowing down and, with the increasing cost of energy, it will slow down even more. https://t.co/DDEjHFPI86 https://t.co/aS2ZhEo8Xa
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Curt Carlson, PhD
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One of the most common mistakes teams make that kills programs. For HDTV we had Norman Goldsmith, a brilliant program manager. Without Norman it is hard to believe we would have won and, with others, set the US standard for HDTV. #innovation
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Teams rush to build their ideas with Minimium Viable Products (MVPs) and they are almost always wrong. Rather, at first focus on Minimum Viable Experiments (MVEs) to rapidly remove risk and build value. #innovation #GDruckerForum https://t.co/dC9Fc5szAG
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Low-cost methods to accelerate value creation and increase your probability of success Need Risk destroys value. If you have reason to believe a house you are buying has termites, you will likely...
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