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		<title>Innovation Insights Newsletter Available Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have not registered to receive our Innovation Insights newsletter, you can check out the premier issue here: http://eepurl.com/h053 .
Don&#8217;t miss the next issue. Register using the form in the sidebar. And don&#8217;t forget to add our email address, Insights@SmartStorming.com, to your address book and/or safe senders list.
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		<title>SmartStorming Launches &#8220;Innovation Insights&#8221; Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the week of February 22, 2010, we will launch our new SmartStorming newsletter, “Innovation Insights,” where approximately every two months we&#8217;ll be sharing concepts and observations designed to inspire new thinking and fresh ideas for you and your organization.
If you&#8217;reinterested in receiving “Innovation Insights,” we invite you to register, either using the form in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartstorming-blog.com/smartstorming-launches-innovation-insights-newsletter/</link>
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		<title>The Innovation – Communication Connection: Why So Many Great Ideas Get Shot Down – And What You Can Do About It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communication is the often forgotten, essential component of innovation. True, it’s not as sexy as all those other components we love reading about, things like creative ideation, strategic implementation, enhanced value, disruptive technology, elegant design and a dozen or so other overused buzz words. But in the end, your big idea is not clearly and persuasively presented to your collaborators and decision makers, it will simply wither on the vine.]]></description>
		<link>http://smartstorming-blog.com/the-innovation-%e2%80%93-communication-connection-why-so-many-great-ideas-get-shot-down-%e2%80%93-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/</link>
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		<title>The Secret of Innovation? It All Comes Down to Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business leaders around the world are struggling to crack the code of innovation. Apparently what it all comes down to is the ability to generate great ideas.]]></description>
		<link>http://smartstorming-blog.com/the-secret-of-innovation-it-all-comes-down-to-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Today Consumers Get It All.The Question Is, Will They Get It From You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this era of instant access to information, the ability to comparison “shop” for virtually anything offered in commerce and the rather sudden and rapid expansion of the competitive marketplace, consumer call all the shots. And if you don’t say, “How high?” when they say, “Jump!” they will most certainly find someone who will – and fast.]]></description>
		<link>http://smartstorming-blog.com/today-consumers-get-it-all-the-question-is-will-they-get-it-from-you/</link>
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		<title>What Do Your Customers Really Want?Let Us Give You An Idea.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know we&#8217;re living in the Information Age &#8211; and how vital a role the Internet plays in the free dissemination of all that information.
What many may not realize, however, is that the availability of information isn&#8217;t simply a byproduct of advancing technology &#8211; it&#8217;s what people want.
A recent article at emarketer.com, &#8220;Americans Want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Innovation Inept? Why Most Organizations Just Aren&#8217;t That Innovative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently Fast Company published its 2009 list of the 50 Most Innovative Companies. Team Obama topped the list (which could, and probably will be the subject of another post). But as amazing as that news was, what struck me was that 33 of the previous year&#8217;s 50 did not make the list.
Wait&#8230; 33 of 2008&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartstorming-blog.com/are-you-innovation-inept-why-most-organizations-just-arent-that-innovative/</link>
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		<title>Announcing New York Entrepreneurs Business Network Speaker Series 1: Skills You Need to Succeed in Your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We will be speaking at the upcoming New York Entrepreneurs Business Network Speaker Series 1: Skills You Need to Succeed in Your Business, on Wednesday, November 4th.
The event will be held at the Barnes &#38; Noble at Lincoln Triangle (Lincoln Center), 1972 Broadway, New York, NY 10023 and begin promptly at 9:15am. Price: $10.00 in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartstorming-blog.com/announcing-new-york-entrepreneurs-business-network-speaker-series-1-skills-you-need-to-succeed-in-your-business/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s 80/20 Formula &#8211; It can work for you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a well-known fact that Google employees are encouraged to spend 80% of their time on core projects, and 20% of their time on “innovation” activities that peak their own personal interests. This 80/20 formula can also work for any organization that desires to ramp up its innovation spirits. Here are some helpful tips we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartstorming-blog.com/googles-8020-formula-it-can-work-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Innovation Spotlight: Art and the Vacuum Cleaner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One recognized approach for developing innovative ideas is to bring together two seemingly unrelated elements, and see what you can create from them that is new, different and value-added.
If this isn&#8217;t just such an example, I don&#8217;t know what is.
The Roomba autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner used to create powerful artistic images, both photographically, of vibrant [...]]]></description>
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