Designing for Green Adoption
July 22, 2009
Virtually every company on the planet, if they haven’t already, will soon have to tackle the challenge of sustainability. We may soon (or already have) hit peak oil production for the world, global warming is real, and the era of cheap resources is rapidly coming to an end. If we want to survive on this
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Jump brings iPhone photo shows to the masses
July 8, 2009
In a undisclosed location, Jump has been working for the last few months on a top-secret project. Today, we can reveal Pix Remix, an iPhone application that allows you to turn photos into amazing shows you can share with your friends. Visit Pixremix.net to get the scoop!
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How to Find Insights from Research
July 1, 2009
Doing great social research is one thing -- figuring out what to do with it is quite another. As part of BusinessWeek's excellent "How to Innovate" series, Jump Managing Associate Dev Patnaik spoke with Jessie Scanlon about the complexities of translating insights into actions.
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Why Empathy Matters at Work
June 23, 2009
Jump's Managing Associate Dev Patnaik is the featured commentator in an MSNBC piece on the critical value of empathy in the workplace. Focusing on lessons from Wired to Care, writer Eve Tahmincioglu explores how true understanding of other people can lead great companies to make creative decisions and thrive even as the market around them is in upheaval.
Read moreSustainability as a Tool for Reinvention
June 15, 2009
How to drive business growth by integrating sustainability and innovation.
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The Open-Empathy Organization
May 6, 2009
For the Spring 2009 issue of the wonderful Rotman Magazine, Jump's Dev Patnaik and Peter Mortensen define what it takes to build an Open Empathy Organization. You can download the article from Harvard Business School. Then get started!
Read moreDon’t Wait to Innovate
April 27, 2009
Oftentimes, we think about change in a business as coming from the top. But it's usually a lot more emergent -- and interesting. In a new column for BusinessWeek, Dev Patnaik and Peter Mortensen look at how empathy transformed the performance of a division within a large insurance company.
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Jump Doubling Up at Sustainable Brands 09
April 10, 2009
Jump will be doubly represented on the speaking faculty of the Sustainable Brands 09 Conference in Monterey this June 1st, with Dev Patnaik delivering an empathy keynote and Lara Lee sharing our work with the San Diego Zoo.
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The Great HBR Debate
April 9, 2009
The Harvard Business Review is currently hosting a fascinating debate on how to fix business schools. Jump's Dev Patnaik is now a featured commentator in the debate, and his first post cuts to the root of the problem: maybe we have selfish business leaders because business school rewards ruthlessness?
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The Power of Community in Marketing
April 6, 2009
Jump's Lara Lee has just begun a new regular column for Forbes.com's CMO Network. The first piece is up now, discussing how the best path for marketing in a recession isn't cutting costs from existing programs -- it's building a bottoms-up brand community.
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