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Joel Barker's T.I.P.S. Tracking - A Strategic Exploration Tool

Joel Barker's T.I.P.S. Tracking - A Strategic Exploration Tool | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it

T.I.P.S. Tracking is a powerful strategic exploration tool that encourages individuals and organizations to manage key information on trands, innovations, and paradigm shifts.  It is focused on three key elements:  Focus - Organize - Interrogate

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How to Allocate Your Time, and Your Effort

How to Allocate Your Time, and Your Effort | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Aiming for universal perfection is a great way to be mediocre at everything.
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NASA - What is Knowledge Management?

NASA - What is Knowledge Management? | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Came across a Simple NASA description of Knowledge Management http://t.co/stXcYzbhlO anyone found anything better?
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Have Innovation Strategy If You Want Your Business To Survive

Nowadays, men and women turn to business as a means of earning more profit. If you are interested in starting up your own company or small...
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How to Create an Innovation Ecosystem

How to Create an Innovation Ecosystem | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
The best ideas don't spring from individuals.
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The 4 Critical Questions HR Really Needs to be Asking

The 4 Critical Questions HR Really Needs to be Asking | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Intuit’s Fast Tack blog did a great job summarizing trends and predictions for 2013 based on PwC Saratoga’s 2012/2013 US Human Capital Effectiveness Report and The Herman Group’s …...
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Imagining an Apple television

Imagining an Apple television | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Rumors of an upcoming Apple-branded TV set show no sign of abating. Here are some ways in which the company could change the way we spend our time in front of the screen.
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Multitasking's Real Victims

Multitasking's Real Victims | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
While I was at the gym last week, I was shocked to see a fellow member lifting a fully stacked bar while simultaneously arguing with someone on the other end of his hands-free headset.
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The Eisenhower Box: save your time by prioritizing your tasks

The Eisenhower Box: save your time by prioritizing your tasks | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
How do you define which task to start with and which one to put aside? The eisenhower box gives you a very easy trick to define the way to treat your various tasks.
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Are You Sleeping With Your Smartphone?

Are You Sleeping With Your Smartphone? | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Do you check your wireless device when you're not working? What causes you to do so? Does the job require it? Do you like feeling needed? Yes, the client or customer might call. Yes, there are stresses from managing across time zones.
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What Really Matters Most? Connections.

What Really Matters Most? Connections. | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it

So, what, you ask, is Ileane Smith's best-kept curation secret?



"Content is not king, because it's the connections and the collaborations that you have with people that really rule the internet."


And, to add to that, Ileane "wants to encourage everybody to try Scoop.it because, if you go in there and search for a topic that you're interested in, you can be on there all day long."


(No, we didn't even tell her to say that ;-) ).


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tinfoilstar's comment, September 18, 2012 2:33 PM
Indeed... the power is in the network... and that is why I am soooo interested in Social network analysis. The study of networks is rather difficult and technical but worth the effort.
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What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day

Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it went away after high school.


An interesting post related to the importance of "focus" for TIPS Tracking.

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Paradigm Shifts for 15 Lists of Key Events

Paradigm Shifts for 15 Lists of Key Events | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Fifteen views of evolution:   When plotted on a logarithmic graph, 15 separate lists of key events in history and prehistory show an exponential trend.
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Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work

Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Four basic principles of creative group problem-solving.
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Doing more with less? Start with focus say 40 top thought leaders

Doing more with less? Start with focus say 40 top thought leaders | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
John Stahl-Wert, best-selling author and founder of The SHIP Company believes that challenging economic times provide an opportunity for individuals, teams, and companies to get better and to under...
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Make Yourself an Expert

Make Yourself an Expert | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
“I don’t know what we’d do without him!” That’s what an executive in a Fortune 100 company recently told us about a brilliant project leader. We’ve heard the same sentiment expressed about many highly skilled specialists during the hundred-plus interviews we’ve conducted as part of our research into knowledge use and sharing. In organizations large and small,
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The T.I.P.S. Tracking process can be a powerful tool for supporting developing your expertise in your organization.

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Japan: Where the iPad is changing lives

Japan: Where the iPad is changing lives | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Apple's iPad is a revolutionary device, yes. But Japan has embraced it in unusual ways.
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Can This Taco Save America?

Can This Taco Save America? | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Taco Bell sold a million Doritos Locos Tacos a day last year—and hired 15,000 new people. Daniel Gross on how the chain’s most bizarre meal yet is upending American economics.
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15000 New Jobs -- just a very interesting story.

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How 3D printing impacts manufacturing

How 3D printing impacts manufacturing | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
With the ability to create on-demand specialist tools, any initial investment in 3D printing technology could quickly pay for itself.
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Book says 'Big Data' becoming a global nervous system

Book says 'Big Data' becoming a global nervous system | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Data are like an 'electronic tatoo,' branding individuals for life in increasingly transparent civilization.
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Stop Working All Those Hours

Stop Working All Those Hours | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
"He's one of my best employees. He always puts in ten-hour days, sometimes much more." Is this how your boss judges you and your colleagues? Probably yes, according to a 2010 study published in Human Relations.
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To Get Better Decisions, Get a Little Fuzzy

To Get Better Decisions, Get a Little Fuzzy | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it

A helpful tip on FOCUS and ORGANIZE


It's easy to equate crisp, clear, black-and-white decisions with good decisions.

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Want a Team to be Creative? Make it Diverse

Want a Team to be Creative? Make it Diverse | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view.
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Scoop.it Tips For Authors

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"One day I realized I was spending more time thinking about my blog posts than about my WIP (work in progress)." writes author Sara Rosett. But as she shut down her blogs, she still felt she "wanted something a little more interactive, but without the huge time commitment of daily blogging."


Sara goes on explaining how Scoop.it turned out to be the perfect solution for this and also highlights interesting tips on how to make the most of Scoop.it.


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Nice tips for using scoop it as an author --- kind of like a mini-blogging platform. 

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Why Knowledge Management Is Important To The Success Of Your Company

Why Knowledge Management Is Important To The Success Of Your Company | T.I.P.S. Tracking | Scoop.it
Managers are bombarded with an almost constant stream of data every day. Read this article to find out three key reasons why actively managing knowledge is important to a company’s success.


This is why TIPS Tracking and a TIPS Team in an organization are so important today! 

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