Ezra Butler was a Senior Research Fellow at the Data Catalyst Institute (2024) with a focus on technology, media, and popular culture.
MacGyver troubleshooting principles can easily apply to any "boring" crisis. Channeling creative energy to problems like declining infrastructure has the added benefit of bringing innovative technology to market.
A new framework to classify innovation archetypes and how different kinds of organizations can maximize their innovation efforts.
Challenge competitions are an efficient funding model to incentivize innovation, speeding up the rate of problem-solving, leveraging compelling rewards, and expending finite resources.
