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Clients and colleagues often ask me how I keep up with emerging ideas and trends. This list contains some of the sites I often review. I will add new sites continuously and would like to hear about other sites from you.
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Springwise and its network of 8,000 spotters scan the globe for smart new business ideas, delivering instant inspiration to entrepreneurial minds from San Francisco to Singapore. http://www.springwise.com. (Thanks to Sheree Kozel-La Ha for the suggestion.)
The South Jersey Regional Library Council has developed " Trading Spaces: Reinventing the Library Environment." It grew from the seed of a very simple idea: Space matters. Environment matters.
In merchandising the collection, library staff at all points on the change-oriented and traditional scale can thrive in a library where the collection and services star. Customers can see the difference when they walk in the door and they love it! http://www.sjrlc.org/tradingspaces
This organization, based in the Netherlands, is an independent and opinionated trend firm based in the Netherlands, scanning the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. Their findings are aggregated in a free, monthly Trend Briefing.
http://www.trendwatching.com
Harvard Business School has a long tradition of practice-oriented research and teaching that has a profound and far-reaching impact on business and management education world wide. HBS Working Knowledge is a forum for innovation in business practice, offering readers a first look at cutting-edge thinking and the opportunity to both influence and use these concepts before they enter mainstream management practice.
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/index.html
The InnovatinNetwork focuses on helping organizations develop a core competency of innovation
http://www.thinksmart.com/
The mission of the Benton Foundation is to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems.
http://www.benton.org/
