{"id":2583,"date":"2012-06-15T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2012-06-15T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:03:36","slug":"chicago-innovation-awards-past-winners-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=2583","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Innovation Awards: Past Winners Showcase: Creating and Leading a Culture of Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ChicagoInnovationAwards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2584\" title=\"ChicagoInnovationAwards\" src=\"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ChicagoInnovationAwards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ChicagoInnovationAwards.jpg 320w, http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ChicagoInnovationAwards-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a front row seat last night to listen to the past winners of the Chicago Innovation Awards. The room was packed at Red Frog Events. A great panel and good energy.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights:<\/p>\n<p>They talked up Chicago and 1871 and the importance of environment for innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Harper Reed (Obama for America, former Threadless CTO) said about Threadless &#8220;we weren&#8217;t trying to be innovative.&#8221; And when experts were talking about them as a poster child for crowdsourcing, his response &#8220;We wanted to be with our friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark O&#8217;Connell talked about how SAVO celebrates innovation, each small act.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Kuczmarski talked about the important of building mentoring in Chicago in order to grow an innovation environment.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone on the panel talked about the importance of having a passion for the customer. Whether that customer was themselves or someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Haper Reed also talked about the importance of diversity. Making his point about not just hiring developers that look like him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a front row seat last night to listen to the past winners of the Chicago Innovation Awards. The room was packed at Red Frog Events. A great panel and good energy. Some highlights: They talked up Chicago and 1871 and the importance of environment for innovation. Harper Reed (Obama for America, former Threadless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}