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innovation playground Idris Mootee
One big crazy week. We have clients visiting from San Diego, Seoul, London and Boston for big work shops, a local station TV crew (second TV stations this month) filming us at work plus 3 very cool project kick-offs that we need to prepare for (and also pitches). The workshops...
Here's how to turn your IPad as a flirtation device and find the dream nerd that you've always wanted. It works particular well with nerds but can also work with other segments I think. Flirting and dating with nerds is a challenge unless you also work in one of those...
The digital camera market has enjoyed some growth the last few years but I think it is reaching a point where sales will be flat or in a slow decline with the exception of DSLR. Digital camera has almost completely replaced earlier film models, and already camera makers have begun...
The Global Ignite Week Toronto was such a stellar night last night and it was a pleasure to share the stage with so many cool people. Funny so many people asked me if I have practiced presenting given the format limitations, there was no practice for me. I think I've...
I was watching Eagle Eyes last weekend, I was thinking what happened there is actually not unlikely, we’re being watched every second. Forget about your PC spyware, they’re nothing compare with mobile phone spyware that enabled call- and text-monitoring and most of all allow anyone to tap into the phone...
What is design research? It is generally refer to the upfront contextual inquiry work that designers perform before they start ideation. Sometimes it involves some light ethnographic work and some interviews, but it is primarily not structured as comprehensive or rigor. Design research emerged only in the late 60’s with...
Creative Think
This is about right. What do you think?...
"Vanishing Point" from Bonsajo
I really like this short video (1:40) entitled "Vanishing Point" from Bonsajo, a visual performance unit in Japan. It makes me think of some stuff I saw in the late 1960s and early 70s. It's fun just to watch it and let it flow over you. Vanishing Point from Bonsajo...
Personal Highlights of the '00s
The '00s are at an end. On a personal level, I can say the '00s were a good decade. I spent most of my fifties there (I aged from 51 to 61). I had some wonderful experiences, met some interesting people, and created a few things along the way. Here...
Click HERE to follow me on Twitter! For the past month, I've been Twittering — and having a lot of fun doing it. I was an early adopter of Twitter — March, 2007 or member #1,810,431 — but didn't much do with it until recently. One thing that has helped...
New Version of Creative Whack Pack App!
Today, Apple approved a new version (3.1) of my Creative Whack Pack iPhone app. [Here is the link to iTunes.] Since it was introduced last March, this product has become the iPhone's premier creativity/innovation tool. It has also been #1 in its category (Business). Great price too: $1.99. The three...
It's time again for some inspiration from Heraclitus, the world's first creativity teacher (he lived around 500 BC). Today's insight is: “I searched into myself.” Heraclitus felt that consulting our own knowledge and intuition is a wonderful way to gain insight. Unfortunately, some of us never learned this lesson. Much...
VizThink
VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for March 12th
A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink. These are the links for March 12th: Personalized Meanings: The Cognitive...
VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for March 11th
A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink. These are the links for March 11th: Health Summit Failed? Blame...
“Abstract City: My Way” in the New York Times
Christoph Niemann is an award winning illustrator who’s work has appeared in, and on the cover of, a variety of publications including The New Yorker, Newsweek, Wired, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration. He’s also behind a semi-regular column on the New York Times’ site entitled “Abstract City”...
VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for March 10th
A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink. These are the links for March 10th: Signs: The most useful...
VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for March 9th
A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink. These are the links for March 9th: What If Everybody in...
Google Launches Public Data Explorer
Yesterday Google flipped the switch on their newest Google labs product “Google Public Data Explorer“, a tool that allows anyone to browse, compare and visualize information from a dozen or so public data sets (World Bank data, US Census Information, Eurostat etc.). While a limited in what you can do...
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Venture Capital Goes Super-Size to Outsize Competition
Is super-sizing your funds a way to create venture runway to steer past or through the downturn and stay competitive in the global market? Many startups - like Mahalo, Ning and LinkedIn - pride themselves on raising enough funding to survive the nuclear winter of late 2008 and basically all...
They called it the “Battle Royale” of media and entertainment. This year’s CES pitted Internet video upstarts like Hulu, Roku, and Boxee in a cage match against industry stalwarts such as Comcast and Time Warner. At stake: the hearts and minds of millions. It was spun as a victor-versus-vanquished battle. It...
Video as Publishing: This Is How We Do It
A fan of Old Jews Telling Jokes once sent us an email saying he loved the videos but he couldn’t figure out how to print them out and needed our help. How adorably incorrect! Laughter, long sigh. But deep down, this fan’s sentiment is not entirely ridiculous.* A lot of what...
Google Checkmate on Apple and iPad Hype: Buy Adobe
With the new Apple iPad receiving an iHype or iYawn from the tech and media communities, a former colleague and Applephile, Patrick Kearney, suggested that Apple was crazy not to just acquire Adobe and own/integrate Flash. I counterpointed via the socialnet, that Adobe would be more integral to Google’s apps...
If the social or virtual goods market is exploding, expect it to also affect content online. Find a way to commoditize virtual content. So forget the Zygna virtual goodsvilles for a second, and start seeing 2010 as the year of ubiquitous “content farming” - where all of the serious digital...
FitBit: A Pocket Wii for New Year’s Health Resolutions
A new take on the Nike Plus (Nike +) physical tracking device has finally gone into fulfillment on its pre-orders. I am playing with confirming my pre-order within the week - right in time for CES, but had to wait a very long while for the pre-order to commit. As a...
The Future is Bright
Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness [Alternate Version] VIDEO
The previously released version was good but I love the imagery on this one. I’m going to end up re-watching this vid 10 or so times tonight just to catch some of the symbolism that may have ‘went over my head’. Credits Artist: Kid Cudi feat MGMT & Ratatat Song: Pursuit of Happiness Director:...
The Hello Wall (A Twitter controlled OOH wall)
The Hello Wall from wasted spaces on Vimeo. This wall reminds me of something that came up during a brainstorm session at one of my past agencies. The Hello Wall is an interactive experience that allows the consumer (person) to control their experience. This could be modified in so many different...
Autumn on the Hudson Valley with Branches #mixedmediaart
Autumn on the Hudson Valley with Branches #mixedmediaart, originally uploaded by KenjiSummers. Spotted at High Line park on 20th street. Art done by Valerie Hegarty. The focus of Hegarty’s work is the collision of nature and culture, past and present. Hegarty notes, "It appears as if nature has become the artist, altering the...
Skins (UK TV Series) is Youth/Gen Y TV done right
The below is a trailer for the fourth series (season) of the epic UK teen drama, Skins. It is teenage angst at its finest. Forget Gossip Girl if you are looking for a realistic view of the middle children of Generation Y. These Millennials in the UK are an example...
Book Smarts, Street Credit – #StreetArt
Book Smarts, Street Credit – #StreetArt, originally uploaded by KenjiSummers. Spotted on a Brooklyn Bridge trash can. Book smarts can not always teach you how to generate income. The streets of NYC are the ultimate litmus test. Sent via my mobile office by AT&T Visit www.kenjisummers.com ...
@WallyVega – Lemonade REMIX #vegaseason
Wally Vega is an enigmatic character out of Ohio. He represents an irreverent style of Hip-Hop that has FINALLY been embraced by the mainstream. However, he goes DUMB on this track. As I look out of my Brooklyn apartment’s window, the sun is shining. Indeed this son of Ohio is...
15inno
Small Companies are from Venus, Large Companies from Mars
I always appreciate comments from innovation leaders from smaller or larger companies as they get their hands dirty and do real work on innovation. Once again, Russ Conser from Shell’s GameChanger program had some interesting comments. This time as a response to my…...
Lego Goes Vertical towards Open Innovation
I have previously written about vertical integration, which is becoming increasingly popular. Check this post: If You Can’t Innovate Across Silos, Don’t Expect To Succeed With Open Innovation. At Lego, vertical integration with a strong focus on customers now gets credit…...
10 Good Reads on Innovation #13
Here comes a list of 10 reads on innovation that I have enjoyed this week. I hope you will enjoy this as well. You can follow me on Twitter: @lindegaard New Insights Into Open Innovation http://bit.ly/a9ZLmT – nice rundown of current…...
Open Innovation Perspectives from Small Company CEO
Finn Houengaard is CEO of Kavli, a 100 person strong company that provides wholesaling distribution of food products. He wants Kavli to become more innovative and in a company with scarcer resources than the big multinationals, it is obvious to…...
NO CHARGE: Open Innovation Session for Company, Consulting Firm and Event Organizer
As an effort to build further on my understanding of open innovation, I am offering a company planning to implement open innovation, a consulting firm helping clients on innovation and an event organizer in the innovation community a FREE session…...
Differences, Similarities in Open Innovation for Small and Large Companies
This is another post in my focus on smaller companies and open innovation. The first post, Why Smaller Companies Should Embrace Open Innovation, generated many comments so check it out if you missed it. In this post, I argue that small…...
Blue Ocean Strategy | Gabor George Burt on Creating Blue Ocean Strategy
Departing from conventional wisdom: The barbecue hovercraft
Companies today, facing an environment of great uncertainty, need to embrace the idea of challenging traditional industry assumptions. This perspective of defying conventional wisdom goes hand-in-hand with the process of Blue Ocean Strategy, which is a systematic approach to turning unconventional ideas into winning strategies. This week, to provide some...
Driven: How enlightenment happens
This week, we move to the fourth sneak peek installment from Razi Imam’s forthcoming book entitled Driven. In his book, Razi shares personal insights to motivation and achievement. We are delighted to have received an advance copy from which we will share brief excerpts that focus on the...
Blue Ocean Strategy: Tipping Point Leadership in action
Continuing with our Blue Ocean Strategy Basics series, over the course of the next four weeks we will continue to highlight examples of Tipping Point Leadership and the Four Organizational Hurdles to Strategy Execution. Once an overview of each example or ‘hurdle’ is published, it is made accessible through the...
The Perfect Calm Series: HOW TO Donate to Chile Earthquake Relief Online
One of the most exciting spheres of application for Blue Ocean Strategy is the realm of Social Capitalism. This explosive market space is at the intersection of successful business and lasting social impact. Traditionally these two spheres were considered separate, but the two can be pursued simultaneously via Blue Ocean...
Simplicity is at the core of Blue Ocean Strategy. First, in an increasingly complex and turbulent business environment Blue Ocean Strategy distills the strategic challenge into a handful of essential questions, followed by a simple, logical framework and a visual platform for expressing strategic intent. Such simplicity of focus is...
Driven: The stuff of great discoveries
This week, we move to the third sneak peek installment from Razi Imam’s forthcoming book entitled Driven. In his book, Razi shares personal insights to motivation and achievement. We are delighted to have received an advance copy from which we will share brief excerpts that focus on the...
Inventors Must Improvise to be Successful
Turning Vision into Value If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series… SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting March 3rd, 2010 6:00 – 9:30 p.m. Program: Improvising Inventors: A...
The Art of Raising Venture Capital in 2010: Don’t Forget to Do Your Homework!
Turning Vision into Value If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2009 Series… SVII "First Wednesday" Innovation Society Meeting February 3rd, 20106:00 - 9:30 p.m. Featured Program:...
Puzzles, Mysteries, and Muddles: Problem Solving and Innovation
Turning Vision into Value If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2009 Series… SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting January 6th, 2010 6:00 - 9:30 p.m. Program: Puzzles, Mysteries, and Muddles:...
Masdar City, UAE: World’s First Carbon-Neutral, Zero-Waste Community
Turning Vision into Value Invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2009 Series… Next Meeting: Wednesday, December 2nd, 20096:00 - 9:30 p.m. Masdar City, UAE: World’s First Carbon-Neutral, Zero-Waste Community Guest Presenter: Karin Larsen, Masdar City Project Masdar City is the expression of a vision. It represents...
Invest in Innovation by Growing Creativity: How to Love and not Fear the “C” Word Behind Innovation
Creativity, a presentation by Jakob Denk View more presentations from Jakob Denk. (tags: gradient paper) In a recent Silicon Valley Watcher post, Founder/Publisher Tom Foremski blogged about “10 Reasons Why This is a Great Time to Invest in Innovation.” At the end of his post, which listed many excellent reasons why...
Innovation Weblog
2010 Innovation Climate Survey shows innovators expect a bright future, but not soon
During February 2010, InnovationTools.com conducted a brief survey of innovation practitioners to measure the current climate for innovation. It asked respondents to quantify the changes in their organization's innovation climate and funding since the global recession hit, and about the specific strategies they're utilizing to help to keep innovation alive...
The Top 10 Predictors of Future Innovation Success
The recently-published Innovation Tools 2010 Innovation Climate Survey contains some excellent insights and indicators that innovation is once again on the upswing, at least among a large chunk of respondents. But it also underscores a persistent misunderstanding of what innovation really is and why it's different from creativity, ideation, invention...
It's time for a resurgence in creative leadership and processes, says futurist Frank Spencer
Futurist Frank Spencer believes that the global economic recession and mechanistic organizational structures have driven creativity out of most firms. It's time for a resurgence in creative leadership and processes that will transform our thinking and actions. ...
8 recommended books on visual thinking
If you want to engage in a deeper study of the principles, applications and possibilities of visual mapping and visual thinking, here are 8 books that I have personally read and recommend. ...
Idea Stimulator: An exciting new ideation tool for the iPhone
Idea Stimulator is a terrific new brainstorming tool for the iPhone that offers over 100 different creative thinking exercises to help you to tap your creative muse. Here's a brief look at its capabilities. ...
The importance of communication in open innovation
One of the common themes of the speakers at the recent CoDev Open Innovation Conference was the importance of developing exceptional communication skills. In the age of open innovation, when partnering with firms outside of your organization in the pursuit of great ideas will become the norm, cultivating this capability...
Adaptive Path
Explaining User Experience Design to High Schoolers (and other new audiences)
How do user experience designers tell their story in a relevant, meaningful way, to audiences who have no exposure to user experience design (UX)? UX practitioners are keenly aware that everything we use in our lives was designed by someone. But, outside of our industry (and related ones), most people...
Signposts for Week Ending March 05, 2010
The Foodspotting iPhone app — inspired in part by Alexa Andrzejewski’s mobile visioning work here at AP & built with help from Dan Harrelson — is now in the app store! Launch was announced by TechCrunch. Teresa Brazen (of Adaptive Path) teaches Ben Chun’s Introduction to Programming class about User Experience...
Five New Faces at Adaptive Path
Hooboy. When it rains, it pours! The last few weeks have seen the addition of a number of new folks here at Adaptive Path. In Austin, we’re thrilled to have Kristina Barnett join the team. She contracted with us initially, and we fell in love and asked her to make...
I love museums, and am fortunate that San Francisco has a number of great ones. I especially enjoy exploring museums with a friend. Wandering through a museum sharing thoughts about what we see is a big part of how I experience art and history. I also love to learn as...
A product’s experience goes beyond User Experience
I’m dropping the word “user” from user experience. Flame on. First, I’m not suggesting anyone forget the user – the person using the thing – from our consideration. Quite the contrary. I believe that the user should always come first in any design discussion, even initially above business needs. What I am proposing...
Apple iPad and the 3 Waves and 5 C’s of Computing Use
An admitted oversimplification, I still find it helpful to think of the history of computing use to have three primary waves. In the 1st Wave, the use was straightforward: Calculation. Whether to figure out trajectories of artillery, to support Manhattan Project, or manage astronomical math, it was largely a matter of...
InnExperience - Innovation goes bananas!!
Sincere apologies to those few who followed this blog. I have decided to take a break from blogging and will not be posting on this blog any longer. Feel free to take whatever you find useful. Till we meet again … Filed under: Innovation ...
Anti-Globalization Bill 2010 passed by America
America passes first Anti-Globalization Bill on 27th January 2010. Questions and comments for Obama....
G. Kameshwar, dons many hats effortlessly — that of a software architect, philanthropist, poet, blogger, writer, wanderer… ...
The end of consumer ignorance – Marketing Predictions for 2010
“What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010?” The answers are fantastic. ...
Green The World … make it a better place.
Green the world ... make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race....
Building businesses around social technologies is like attempting to achieve the ideals of Communism using the methods of Capitalism. ...
Innovation in Practice
Innovation Sighting: The Division Template on a Cell Phone
LG Electronics is getting ready to announce their third annual Design the Future Competition. Last year, more than 800 entries were submitted by consumers with their take on the future of mobile communications. The winning entry is the focus of this month's Innovation Sighting....
nnovating is a form of competitive behavior. When we innovate, we compete with someone or something. We innovate to survive. We innovate for glory. We innovate to win. Leaders of organizations need to understand and leverage this competitive aspect of innovation to embed it into the...
The LAB: Innovating an Aquarium Using S.I.T. (February 2010)
There are a 183 million pet fish in the United States, more than double the number of dogs. Fourteen million U.S. households have fish. During the past decade, the pet fish category grew by more than 20% making it one of the fastest growing in the industry. ...
Innovation Sighting: Subtraction on CPG Products
Here are two CPG products from this week's Best New Product Awards. I tried them at home and noticed a pattern. That pattern suggests a different way to use the Subtraction Template of the innovation method, S.I.T.. The question is whether that pattern can be replicated on...
Sustainable innovation requires structured methods. But it also requires collaboration and information sharing among colleagues. Innovation is a team sport - groups produce better results than the lone genius. So how do you create a more favorable context for collaboration and sharing in your business unit? Reputation is...
The LAB: Innovating the iPad with Attribute Dependency (January 2010)
Apple's iPad creates a new category of consumer electronic somewhere between smart phones and notebook computers. Success depends on how well it embeds into our everyday routines at work, home, and elsewhere. Success also depends on how well it creates new routines. A great innovation tool...
Creativity & Innovation
Group Consequences of Individual Strategies
I recently received this fascinating summary of an upcoming lecture* by Robert Goldstone of Indiana University: Just as ants interact to form elaborate colonies and neurons interact to create structured thought, groups of people interact to create emergent organizations that the individuals may not understand or even perceive. To study the...
3M is the innovation powerhouse that most people associate with Scotch tape and the Post-It note. They were the first company to give each engineer a specific amount of time off, every week, to invent new things: back in the 1950s, when they called it “15 percent time”–15 percent of...
The 50 Most Innovative Companies?
FastCompany magazine has just published its annual list of the 50 most innovative companies. Here are the top ten: 1. Facebook 2 (three-way tie). Amazon, Apple, Google 5. Huawei Technologies (world’s #2 telecom equipment provider) 6. First Solar (largest solar supplier in the U.S.) 7. PG&E (California-based utility) 8. Novartis (Swiss pharma giant) 9. Walmart (World’s largest...
Europe: Knowledge and Innovation Communities
This article by Mark Dodgson of the University of Queensland describes a major new initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), established by the European Parliament in 2008 “to further policies encouraging innovation in higher education and business in Europe…to compete with the U.S.” Three Knowledge and...
Most people know that computer chess programs today can beat even the world champion. Gary Kasparov was the world champion back in the 1990s, and he was the first world champion to lose to a computer. Kasparov has written very insightfully about the difference between how humans play chess, and...
I just learned of a restaurant where the kitchen improvises your meal (thanks to Leslie Marticke of SCAD): it’s called POSH and it’s in Scotsdale, Arizona. From their web site: POSH serves a seasonal coursed menu, starting with 4 courses, up to as many as desired. How it works…we offer a...
Creativity Central
Are you adding value or robbing commitment?
"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws." Douglas Adams First the bad news. There is a special law of management that says “thou...
Creativity and the Sigmoid Curve
Yes, I know. The Sigmoid curve sounds like a medical device and an unpleasant one at that. But it is a remarkably simple business tool. I discovered the Sigmoid Curve through the great business thinker and writer, Charles Handy. How can a such a simple curve be such a revelation? It...
Why every team needs a deviant.
Most of us in the creativity brainstorming world are professional deviants. We don't typically use the term deviant, preferring the less harsh term gadfly. Or in a politically correct world, idea catalyst. But deviant is good enough for J. Richard Hackman, the Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University and...
An Exercise in Changing Yourself. Goldsmith.
I admit I'm a Marshall Goldsmith groupie. I don't follow him from venue to venue, but I read his occasional dispatches on the Harvard Business Review Blog. Get his RSS feed, it's always interesting, provocative and based on a long career of working and coaching leaders. What is great about his approach...
How to become a better client (even to youself) Part 3.5
Well, the Heaths have done it again. In their recent book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard , Chip and Dan Heath tell the popcorn story. The condensed version of the story is this. One Saturday in 2000, moviegoers were invited to a preview of a upcoming film. They...
How to become a better client (even to youself) Part 3
“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. Peter Drucker There’s a persistent paradox in even the most savvy of companies. They typically spend more time solving problems than accurately identifying them. Einstein reported once...