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  • Review of Jiyo-a Wellness Wellbeing Mobile App by Deepak Chopra

    Deepak Chopra, a well known and leading figure in the meditation and alternative health movement, has launched on June 12th together with his his co-founder Poonacha Machaiah a new service called Jiyo. This wellness services is focused on a mobile App experience (iOS, Android) and also works fine in a browser. It collects a lot of…

  • Find and share your gift by working out loud #wolweek 2016

    This is the first day of this year`s Working Out Loud Week #wolweek and Simon Terry has recommended to reflect about PURPOSE. First I was contemplating about the term “purpose” and what it exactly means in German. Is it more about intention, a goal, aim, only a task or it more about a higher meaningful purposeful goal with…

  • The slide in Mary Meeker’s 2016 internet trends report that shows incumbents’ interest in startup innovation

    Here it is below. Admittedly it is somewhat narrowly focused on acquisitions of tech companies as a means to extend their digital capabilities. Still, a strong indicator from a very powerful voice. The commentary below the slide came from the article where I first read about her latest report and I cannot be sure of…

  • Making sense of sensemaking

    I see sense making as a bit of an art but also believe there is a science to it. At least to doing it well. I also believe we will have to get better at it since it will be one of the key skills of the 21st century (check out this article on a…

  • Intrapreneur’s Playbook: Why dissent is good for your organisation and 10 ways to foment disruption

    I work in an organisation and industry where a key mantra of work and of the value we offer to customers is (improved) collaboration. Central to this is effective teamwork and working like a network. I believe in this wholeheartedly with every fibre in my body since I have been working in this space for…

  • The Modern Organisation’s Hierarchy of Needs

    NOTE: See bottom of page for updated version and notes. This doodle started out as a fun means of framing the way the world of work is moving within a very established framework – Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Each element in the hierarchy kind of speaks for itself. I added a few lines of elaboration for each…

  • How to communicate and get what you need from decision makers

    I learned of a technique in a training session given to Yammer Sales and Customer Success Management (CSM) staff in 2012. The technique adopts an approach for emailing someone, typically for the first time, that you are keen to get something from – essentially you would be cold calling them. We called the technique “the Hoff mail” after…

  • What tools for the quantified self of the mind?

    @ragnarheil you’ve already published an awesome write up on your use of Neurosky and have covered some other tools. You made some really good points about what they do. I thought why not try #workingoutloud to capture a comprehensive list of considerations when evaluating tools for the benefit of others. I also think its important…

  • Meditate and measure your Brainwaves: Review of Neurosky MindWave

    My first blogpost here at Innerventures is about a review of a Brainwave measuring gadget which I use for my meditation practise: MindWave Mobile: Brainwave Starter Kit. I bought it online for around 99€, using it since over a year now and want to share a summary of the use cases I experimented with. This headset connects via…

  • Why leaders of digital initiatives inside organisations need to think like start-ups

    Or to put it another way, why they need to be more intrapreneurial. I have written about this before on LinkedIn and its also covered in my trend report although those are broader pieces covering more than just digital initiatives. What I am talking about here relates to initiatives that I am often involved in…

  • Welcome and pointers

    @ragnarheil welcome to this site :) Just want to let you know that you can mention users in this site in the standard way using the @ symbol and user name. You should receive a notification from this post. And this way we can work together and out loud #workingoutloud :) As you can see…

  • Dharma Hacker – An Overview

    What is a Dharma Hacker? A Dharma Hacker takes a balanced approach. Eastern philosophical aesthetics combine with modern technological influences. See it as the yin and yang of modern existence, the combination of right and left brain, the intersection of technology and the humanities, etc. Dharma has many different meanings. The one associated with Buddhism…

  • Working in a networked world – 10 rules to guide you

    This is an old post from past blogs I’ve run that seemed to go down well and so I’m bringing over to this site to keep a record of and tagging them: #archive Consumers work this way already, they share what they learn about the product, service and company experiences they have every day so…

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    Couple of new things happening in the world of startup driven innovation since my last post, at least new things I’ve found – some articles/announcements are from a while ago. Here they are: HP’s new Tech Ventures arm looks to invest in emerging startups 8 principles for innovation in a corporate ecosystem Naspers Plants a…