by zakkates | May 26, 2015 | Thought Leadership
Read original article here. The Chicago Innovation Awards celebrated both established and rising companies Thursday at the Harris Theater with spectacle and applause for stories of striving and success. Founders Tom Kuczmarski and Dan Miller dressed as Chewbacca and...
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by zakkates | Aug 14, 2014 | Thought Leadership
Read original article here. Franco Savoni walked into a business-networking program thinking small Tuesday. And he did it with no apologies. To help advance business at Elkay, an Oak Brook-based sink and faucet manufacturer, Savoni is checking out the work and...
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by zakkates | Aug 13, 2014 | Thought Leadership
Executives at China-based tech giant Lenovo face a major turnaround project with their $2.9 billion acquisition of Google’s Motorola Mobility. The Libertyville-based laggard has a great history, but it saw operating losses of $1.2 billion last year and...
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by zakkates | Aug 12, 2014 | Thought Leadership
Read entire article here Born, raised and educated on the East Coast, Tom Kuczmarski arrived in Chicago with a two-years-and-out plan. That was 36 years ago. Since then he started an innovation consultancy, Kuczmarski & Associates, is in his 32nd year teaching at...
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by zakkates | Aug 11, 2014 | Thought Leadership
Read entire article here The Life of Tom Kuczmarski and the Creation of the Chicago Innovation Awards’, ‘ Tom Kuczmarski spends every waking moment of his life making sure that tomorrow is far more interesting than today. He’s been a teacher at the Kellogg School of...
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by zakkates | Aug 10, 2014 | Thought Leadership
Read the entire article here Invention is often viewed as a source of economic growth. It isn’t. It’s innovation that generates new products, new services, new businesses, and new jobs. As a country we need to be focused on innovation more than ever...
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