Transparent Technology and The New World of Consumerism
There was an interesting posting over on FutureLab’s Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog on the impact of technology on consumerism, particularly within the youth culture.
The gist of the posting was on how young people in particular are aggressively using technology to seamlessly move back and forth between the worlds of bytes and atoms as they [...]
The Importance of Execution: IBM’s Innovation Man Commercial
Have you seen IBM’s “Innovation Man” commercial? I think it’s a real hoot and for those of you who haven’t seen it, I’ll try to capture it’s essence…
Scene: Outside an office building, female business professional walking away from building towards an inbound middle-aged, rather paunchy guy in a superhero outfit with a large “I” across [...]
Recommended Reading: The Myths of Innovation
Recently finished a wonderful book on the subject of innovation by Scott Berkun, entitled “The Myths of Innovation.”
Scott was a member of the Microsoft team which developed the Internet Explorer browser during the mid-to-late 90s, and his book is a blend of the history of innovation (with a strong emphasis on recent technological innovations), as [...]
Quantum Innovation - Some Foundational Thoughts
The term innovation is itself subject to multiple interpretations. My own use of the term is that innovation is applied creativity (a.k.a. “invention”) which provides value to a customer.
Quantum Leaders views the modern company in a manner akin to that of the quantum physicist, who considers light as having the properties of both a particle [...]
What is Innovation?
In the old days, we would normally begin to answer this question by consulting our dictionary - nowadays, we have all the resources of the net available to us, one of the more useful ones being wikipedias, a collaborative (“open source”) approach to encyclopedias.
The wikipedia on innovation lists a number of definitions (derived from various [...]