Wow, that's a mouthful, huh? (It's for SEO). It's one more way to electronically engage with me (and presumably, the most Google-friendly one).I've called this a "Collaboratory" after William Wulf's idea of a "center without walls, in which the nation's researchers can perform their research" to help my students, colleagues, and you better explore the impact of communication and innovation in the workplace.The page links (below) in CAPITALS are areas for you to explore: communication and innovation tips (C+I TIPS, get it?), links to wikis, and so on. The other stuff is information about me, my courses, my research, and my resources. I add stuff constantly but if you think the site is too static for too long, send me an email (clabash@cmu.edu) and tell me to get off my butt. More important, please review and comment. The idea of a laboratory is to explore ideas, gain insights, and test hypotheses. So check back often and contribute even more often. Thanks! | I teach communications, innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship in the School of Information Systems and Management in Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. One of the distinctive things about Carnegie Mellon in general and the Heinz College specifically is a unique and robust interdisciplinary approach to, well, everything. In the School of Information Systems and Management, that means a rich merger of information systems concepts and practice with solid business sense. Graduates walk away with a keener understanding not only of business concepts and analytics, but of their underlying technologies as well. I've been teaching here since 2003, but most of my background is "real-world." For many years I was Executive Creative Director of the Headquarters Office of Ketchum Advertising, then the 15th largest ad agency in the world. I've been Vice President of Global Marketing at Development Dimensions International, one of the world's largest training and assessment companies. And I've been a management consultant, a serial entrepreneur, a radio dj, a lumberjack, a skydiver, and most important, a dad. All of which inform, for better or worse, my teaching. |
Welcome to the Chris Labash Communication + Innovation Collaboratory |