Bill Hortz On Innovation
William Hortz is president and dean of the Institute for Innovation Development (IID), an educational and business development organization for members determined to grow their businesses in a world of constant change. Run as a social enterprise, the Institute is dedicated to making innovation best practices a vital cornerstone for members’ business growth. He also is founder of Strategic Account Management Solutions Inc. and previously worked for OppenheimerFunds, Countrywide Investments and Peregrine Asset Management.
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Advisory firms must continually address change and reinvent themselves.
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The future resides at the crossroads, the intersection points, the places where many disciplines, experiences, cultures and ideas collide.
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Proactive and inquisitive minds -- across all industries -- with a genuine desire to connect, share and learn generate incredible energy.
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In part 2 of an interview, Rowan Gibson identifies the four "lenses" through which great innovators see opportunities that others don't and how advisors can use them to lead in financial services.
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Rowan Gibson says companies big and small focus too much on efficiency and not enough on innovation, and shows how some companies broke the mold.
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Firms need to regularly challenge themselves, their assumptions and their guiding principals to keep pace in a changing world.
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In a rapidly changing world, it has become a priority for business owners to use more innovation and creativity. But how do you actually do that?
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We can learn more about human ingenuity by studying the way successful innovators think.
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To drive more innovation in your business, we need to understand how mindset can prepare and condition your mind to innovate, and how it puts you in the right frame of mind to uncover new growth...
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Writing goals and plans down on paper and defining them, precisely, help us productively confront what's in our minds and hearts.
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Imagine the increases in productivity if corporate management and small business owners would acknowledge that “genius” can come from ALL employees working and actively sharing ideas together.
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For too long the concept of innovation has been seen as a squirrelly topic for many of us.
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The Institute for Innovation Development is designed to be an educational and business innovation catalyst for the financial services industry.
