“Design-Driven Innovation”–the powerful advantage that comes from changing...
One of the best books of the year is undoubtedly “Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean,” by Roberto Verganti. In it Verganti, a favorite...
View ArticleInnovation moving from initiatives to experiments
An interesting piece in today’s WSJ Business Insight section (”The New, Faster Face of Innovation” by Eric Brynjolffson and Michael Schrage of MIT) asserts that information technologies are reducing...
View ArticleThe delight in using an innovation you had a hand in creating
I am posting this from my laptop, about 30,000 feet in the air, somewhere over Virginia, I’m guessing. And it’s a thrill. Not only because it’s novel to have WiFi access in the air – I have a personal...
View ArticleShop Talk Podcast: Roberto Verganti on “Design-Driven Innovation”
Roberto Verganti’s book “Design-Driven Innovation” is one of the best business books of the year. It discusses the methods certain companies use to create products with radically new meanings, offering...
View ArticleA company’s online, sharable, living window to the outside world
I interned for IBM in the summer of 1983. It was the best summer job imaginable–fun work, smart people, good pay, and of course better resume fodder than my prior work experience (the hardware store)....
View ArticleDon’t worry about Lego Star Wars impairing kids’ creativity
The New York Times this weekend profiled the business revival at Lego Group (”Turning to Hollywood Tie-Ins, Lego Thinks Beyond the Brick“). The numbers speak for themselves: Amid a 5 percent drop in...
View ArticleHow radical innovation and careful customer listening go together
It may be difficult to square my current obsession with Roberto Verganti’s new book “Design-Driven Innovation” – a textbook study of how companies create way-out, game-changing innovations that users...
View ArticleWe have an innovation problem, and it is miles and miles of indistinguishable...
I learned today that Axe Body Spray for Men is running an ad in Uruguay where readers sending an SMS to their address receive on their phone the missing bits of a picture of a beautiful woman. (Those...
View ArticleHBR article recommends confronting new venture risks early
Once upon a time in innovation, there was a general rule: get to market as quickly as you can, meaning you should start on your “long-pole” development activities as soon as possible. But there’s a...
View ArticleA brief history of flash memory – and how Apple used it to change everything
Remember this? It used to be the killer app using flash memory. Here is the flash killer app, circa 2010: And Apple is the reason. When flash memory was used to move files between computers so you...
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