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Gwen Smith Ishmael, Sr. Vice President of Insights and Innovation at Decision Analyst in Arlington, TX, has led marketing and new product development activities in the CPG and technology industries since 1986. She also conceived and developed ground-breaking Web-based promotional vehicles, two of which are patent pending. Gwen holds an MBA in Marketing and is a featured speaker on insights and innovation around the world. Her writings have been featured in international text books, most recently in Managing 4 Ps of Marketing FMCG Sector, and Product Innovation: A Strategic Tool for Growth, by ICFAI Publications, 2006 and 2007, respectively.

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Renee Hopkins Callahan Renee Hopkins Callahan started IdeaFlow and serves as chief blog-wrangler. She is Director of Innovation Services at Decision Analyst in Arlington, Texas, is a former journalist who worked as an editor and reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the Nashville Tennessean, and was managing editor of D, the Dallas city magazine. She has a master's degree in rhetoric and has also taught college-level English and informal logic.
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October 1, 2003

Innovation Convergence Notes III: Sandbox Wisdom, Innovation Bloggers

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Posted by Renee Hopkins Callahan

The theme of Convergence may have been innovation, but that’s not to say that everyone there was up on the latest innovations. Not only had many people I spoke to not heard of IdeaFlow, most had never heard of blogging, either!


But there was at least one other blogger there besides me and JoyceTom Asacker, author of The Four Sides of Sandbox Wisdom: Building Relationships In An Age of Chaos, Complexity, and Change, who was the Monday lunch keynote speaker. Tom’s blogged Convergence impressions, including photos (none of me!), are here.

“Innovation is how well you flow around the obstacles,” Tom told us, which reminded me of something I heard folksinger Chuck Pyle (best-known as the writer of “Jaded Lover”) say in a recent concert: “Life is short, but wide.”


UPDATE: I just found out that Imaginatik, featured in my first Convergence installment, has a blog too. Anybody else who was at Convergence have one? Let me know!

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