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Clarity

Steve Faktor

Greater New York City Area

Founder of IdeaFaktory incubator; Author of Econovation; Writer for Forbes, Harvard Business Review, & LinkedIn Influencer; Global innovation Speaker; Ex-head of American Express Chairman's Innovation Fund; Former strategy & Innovation senior executive at MasterCard, Citi, Andersen

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Marketing

The Top 10 Triumphs of Demand Creation
- the psychology and tactics behind creating demand for new (and sometimes unnecessary) products and services.

http://www.ideafaktory.com/marketing-advertising-promotion/top-10-triumphs-of-demand-creation/

Entrepreneurship

My LinkedIn Influencer article: How to Choose The Perfect Business Idea…For You

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130125185627-4802093-how-to-choose-your-next-ad-venture-and-guarantee-it-succeeds

Future of Work

My Interview with CMS Wire on Fulfillment in the Digital Workplace

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/steve-faktor-on-finding-fulfillment-in-the-digital-workplace-019222.php

Innovation (Macro Opportunities)

On Forbes: Unbreaking American Innovation: Three Ways to Reinvent Reinvention
Macro opportunities - Econovation (Economics+Innovation)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevefaktor/2012/12/10/unbreaking-american-innovation-econovation/

Future of Work

My interview with PSFK on the Future of Work

http://www.psfk.com/2012/10/steve-faktor-fostering-innovation-new-workplace.html

Innovation - Retail

On Forbes: Three Ways to Reinvent Retail for Men

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevefaktor/2012/10/23/three-ways-to-reinvent-shopping-for-mens-clothing/

Social Media

My Forbes article on 10 Types of Twitter Users

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevefaktor/2013/01/04/the-10-types-of-twitterers-and-how-to-tame-their-tweets-twitter-users/

Entrepreneurship

Dear Entrepreneur, 5 Reasons to Think Small and Stop Innovating!

http://www.ideafaktory.com/entrepreneurship/dear-entrepreneur-think-small-and-stop-innovating/

Entrepreneurship - Strategy

The Risk that Ate the Digital Entrepreneur – Surviving Platform Risk

http://www.ideafaktory.com/entrepreneurship/platform-risk-devours-digital-entrepreneurs/

Startups - Digital Payments & Loyalty

My Forbes article: 10 New Rules for Mobile Payments and Loyalty Startups

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevefaktor/2013/03/19/10-new-rules-for-mobile-payments-and-loyalty-startups/

Culture of Innovation

My viral Forbes article on The 9 Corporate Personality Types And How to Inspire Them to Innovate

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevefaktor/2012/11/15/feature-the-9-corporate-personality-types-how-to-inspire-them-to-innovate/

Culture of Innovation

Interview with me on NPR on 9 Corporate Personality Types

http://www.ideafaktory.com/podcast/steve-faktor-interview-on-npr-radio-discussing-his-forbes-article-on-the-9-corporate-personality-types/

Strategy

My Forbes article: How HP Could Reinvent 3D Printing…and Itself

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevefaktor/2012/10/15/how-hp-could-reinvent-3d-printing-and-itself/

Innovation - Consumer Technology & Electronics

Five Ways Microsoft can Defeat iPhone and Android

http://www.ideafaktory.com/mobile/how-microsoft-can-beat-google-android-apple-iphone/

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Steve was highly knowledgable and quickly was able to provide insight into the problem we were looking to solve.

Martin Smith Source: Clarity

Steve is a great person to work with. He has very positive energy and is a great collaborator on strategic projects.

Lisa Bradley Source: LinkedIn

Steve was always a major asset to DIS Research and was our "Guru" regarding any Sales or Business issues on the Telco side of the house. He was always a take charge innovator needing no supervision to get the job done right.

Rex Knight Source: LinkedIn

Steve is one of the most outstanding people leaders. He is an insightful and lateral thinker always open to feedback with a great sense of humor. Both personally as well as professionally he has been truly inspiring.
Working directly under him has been a pleasure and a learning experience. The world needs more leaders like him.
Thank You Steve.

Abhimanyu Kashyap Source: LinkedIn

Steven is a great brainstormer, and highly fluent in all the latest internet trends, and technology changes. He is particularly good at picking up on trends and "latest thing" which should be applied to your business goals.

Jay Bhattacharya Source: LinkedIn

Steve is extremely creative in his approach to problem solving and value creation. He has the background and knowledge to ground this creativity in business value terms and returns. His influence was based on his strong opinions and ideas that were highly valued by executive management. He was capable of operating at all levels of the organization and understood the benefit of inclusive thinking and deployment. I am a huge fan of Steve's.

Elisa Romm Source: LinkedIn

Steve work style is thorough, planned and coordinated. Well like and team player. Good strategic thinker!

Peter Gordon Source: LinkedIn

It was always a pleasure working with Steven in any kind of projects. His creativity, industry expertise and excellent project and people management skills made working with him very effective and fun. He is a great leader and a sound professional.

Mercedes Eggleton-Garcia Source: LinkedIn

-- strong project management skills
-- results oriented
-- creative approach to solving problems
-- great team contribution and collaborative style

David Bronstein Source: LinkedIn

I worked with Steve on a project for Citigroup regarding there Idea Management solution. Steve was very insightfull about the components required to implement a successful Idea Management program for a large organization.

Vincent Carbone Source: LinkedIn

Steve, is extremely innovative with a clear line of sight to follow initiatives through to execution. Able to innfluence and drive positive change throughout the organization.

Joel Secundy Source: LinkedIn

Member since May 2013