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"Can You Hear Them Now? VoIP, Intellectual Property, and the Verizon/Vonage Battle".

The patent infringement lawsuit between Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) pioneer Vonage and telecom giant Verizon is almost over. And although Vonage just won an important legal "stay" to allow it to keep in business and continue to market to new customers, it may not stay in business for long. This week's episode of Strategic Edge explores the implications of this fight on strategic innovation in the area of VoIP, and why the battle alone is actually for the best for the entire telecom business ecosystem.

"Collective IQ and Human Augmentation", with computer pioneer, visionary thinker Doug Engelbart, founder of the Boostrap Institute.

Our latest podcast features Doug Engelbart, a visionary who has helped shape many of the major inventions of what we now think of as the internet as well as the early stages of computing, from early concepts of microelectronics to the invention of the computer mouse. In this weeks’ podcast, learn how one man’s lifelong passion to create a meaningful legacy of work that could benefit all mankind has provided the drive and the vision to take him to perhaps his most challenging innovations yet, the means by which we can harness our Collective Intelligence and realize his complex concept of vast human Augumentation.

"Collective IQ and Human Augmentation", with computer pioneer, visionary thinker Doug Engelbart, founder of the Boostrap Institute.

Our latest podcast features Doug Engelbart, a visionary who has helped shape many of the major inventions of what we now think of as the internet as well as the early stages of computing, from early concepts of microelectronics to the invention of the computer mouse. In this weeks’ podcast, learn how one man’s lifelong passion to create a meaningful legacy of work that could benefit all mankind has provided the drive and the vision to take him to perhaps his most challenging innovations yet, the means by which we can harness our Collective Intelligence and realize his complex concept of vast human Augumentation.

Voices from 2020, Vol. 6, "Rapid Innovation in Collaborative Groups", Published February 10, 2007. In this episode of our Voices from 2020 series, hosts Bill Veltrop and Firehawk interview Stu Winby, strategist in the field of group creativity, on how to help groups innovate faster and more effectively as a collaborative field. Listen and learn how his concepts of the Decision Accelerator and related approaches have been used to change the way social and business innovation works – and what their dramatic effects for organizations of all kinds will enable– by the year 2020.

"Natural Capitalism", with Hunter Lovins, founder and President of Natural Capitalism, Inc.

As business gets involved in dealing with both the tremendous environmental challenges facing the world today, and elects to “go green” on a level we've never seen before, business also is learning that partnering and learning from nature is also a pretty good economic “bet”. In this week’s episode of Stranova, the founder and President of Natural Capitalism, Inc., explains how embracing a new partnership with nature is not only the right thing to do, it’s “good business” as well.

Voices from 2020, Vol. 5, "Identity, Society, Communications, and Sustainability", published December 19, 2006. In Part II of the Voices from 2020 interview with the 2006 Winner of Japan’s Goi Peace Prize, futurist and social scientist Duane Elgin (with hosts Firehawk and Bill Veltrop) takes us even deeper into our understanding of what it will mean for all of us to live more fully “sustainable” ways of life.

Voices from 2020, Vol. 5, "Identity, Society, Communications, and Sustainability", published December 19, 2006. In Part II of the Voices from 2020 interview with the 2006 Winner of Japan’s Goi Peace Prize, futurist and social scientist Duane Elgin (with hosts Firehawk and Bill Veltrop) takes us even deeper into our understanding of what it will mean for all of us to live more fully “sustainable” ways of life.

Stranova Strategic Edge Vol. 15, published December 10, 2006. "Peace as a Strategic Innovation". The challenge of “waging peace” in our world today is that war itself is already deeply entrenched in our society in many ways – in government, in our economies, and even in how our language is able to describe war so fully, while the concept of peace has only shallow roots and even fewer words to describe it – outside of simply as “the opposite of war”. In this episode of Stranova Strategic Edge, we explore why war is such a difficult system to supplant, and how some radical non-traditional approaches to creating new peaceful ecosystems are helping peace “break out” throughout the world, in places you might never expect.

Stranova Strategic Edge Vol. 15, published December 10, 2006. "Peace as a Strategic Innovation". The challenge of “waging peace” in our world today is that war itself is already deeply entrenched in our society in many ways – in government, in our economies, and even in how our language is able to describe war so fully, while the concept of peace has only shallow roots and even fewer words to describe it – outside of simply as “the opposite of war”. In this episode of Stranova Strategic Edge, we explore why war is such a difficult system to supplant, and how some radical non-traditional approaches to creating new peaceful ecosystems are helping peace “break out” throughout the world, in places you might never expect.

Voices from 2020, Vol. 4, "Identity, Society, Communications, and Sustainability", published November 12, 2006. In our fourth installment of the “Voices from 2020” series, our guest is Duane Elgin, a visionary social scientist and evolutionary activist. In his books Voluntary Simplicity, Promise Ahead, and Awakening Earth, he showed us all paths for how individual and collective will can be harnessed to create a more sustainable future for the universe. In this episode of “Voices”, listen and learn how individuals, societies, and businesses can develop deeper and more meaningful relationships with each other, with the earth, and with the universe as a whole, and will have created a much brighter future for all by 2020.