University of Michigan - Jeff DeGraff - The Dean of Innovation

Devise with Revisionary Eyes

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” (Lao Tzu) Politicians use the term […]

Some of the most fantastical advancements in modern science and technology are designed to predict weather patterns. Seeing a hurricane

“Having just a vision’s no solution, everything depends on execution The art of making art is putting it together” (Stephen

In peak moments of flow and manic machinations of enthusiasm unbound we kid ourselves into believing that we truly know

“I don’t care if it’s a white cat or a black cat. It’s a good cat so long as it

Gestalt psychology espouses that we make sense of the chaotic and variant stimuli that barrage us at every moment of

One of the side effects of my portfolio life is that I travel more than any rational person should. I

“Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it’s just the beginning”. (Marshall McLuhan) We are bound up and packaged within

There are four basic stages to putting the first principles and structure and dynamics of growth into motion in our

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” (Yogi Berra) Innovatria Growth is a