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Curt Carlson, PhD @curtPoI

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

Joined October 2016
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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. linkedin.com/pulse/experient…

Experiential Education in the Age of AI

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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ChatGPT and the transformation of Value Creation & Innovation linkedin.com/pulse/chatgpt-t…

ChatGPT Will Transform Value Creation & Innovation

A Framework to Accelerate Value Creation & Innovation Using ChatGPT Our Opportunity In the past five years, society has experienced two significant advances in value creation and innovation. The...

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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. linkedin.com/pulse/challenge… via @LinkedIn

Challenge Skills Hard Work = Meaning

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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The Missing Business School Discipline: Value Creation linkedin.com/pulse/missing-b… via @LinkedIn

The Missing Business School Discipline: Value Creation

“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two — and only two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. All the rest are costs.

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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. lnkd.in/gBVdtGs
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Development of a Value Creation Enterprise: The path to systematic innov... youtu.be/NyAGlA96bBA via @YouTube
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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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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. lnkd.in/ebbAeF6p

How to Advance Your Career: Be a Value Creator

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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Check out my latest article: Initial Innovation Investment Plans linkedin.com/pulse/initial-i… via @LinkedIn

Initial Innovation Investment Plans

Example investment plans required by a variety of organizations INTRODUCTION Value creation starts by developing a compelling, quantitative NABC Value Proposition and then, step by step, addressing...

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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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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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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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How the perception and delivery of customer value is changing. linkedin.com/pulse/emerging-…

The Emerging Customer Value Hierarchy

How the perception of customer value is changing Executive Summary Whatever your business, striving to be the best at what you do by distinguishing your products and services is essential for...

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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. lnkd.in/gChGmMay lnkd.in/gdrFCYRF

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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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Do you hate your review meetings? Try this. #GDruckerForum #innovation lnkd.in/dM82Bj_N

Value Creation Forums and NABC Action Plans

"A meeting without an action is a social event." Len Polizzotto Need Do you like going to review meetings? No? I don't, either.

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VFA is a method that will help you better identify your customer needs and evaluate your offerings. linkedin.com/pulse/value-fac… #GDruckerForum #innovation

Determine Your Competitive Advange: Value Factor Analysis (VFA)

VFA helps to rapidly determine if your innovation addresses end-user needs better than all other alternatives Need Innovators are all in love with their new ideas, and they want everyone else to love...

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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 linkedin.com/pulse/maximizin…

Maximizing Value by Mitigating Risk

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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