Some english podcasts of note, collected in the last few weeks, for all of you that got a little time on their hands … For a start, Alex Osterwalder has published two more Arvetica podcasts of note (mp3), here he’s talking with Scott Anthony of Innosight, and here he’s talking with John Hagel. How cool [...]
So now the demand and need are clear, what about approaches, concepts and ideas. Some are compiled by Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge who have put together some classic articles on innovation (“Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation“), among them articles on user innovation, and how to harness disruptive change: Sharpening Your Skills dives into the [...]
Jeffrey Phillips really hits the nail on the head: “Innovation on the Cheap”, and yes this stands in stark contrast to the normal take of innovation as the corporate fountain of youth [...] It’s clear that many senior executive teams are very interested in becoming more innovative. It’s also clear that few of them understand [...]
As I am checking my backlog of posts I wanted to write in relation to the Davos forum (“World Economic Forum’s annual meeting“) I found this post of mine on a Technology Review article, noting an interesting comment by Sheldon Buckler on the importance of permanent (business model) innovation and board level support: “Corporate Fountain [...]
Via Eicolab (“Customer participation“), this nice idea by Penguin publishers: Penguin has a series of books with blank white covers. You can design your own covers. Express yourself. Turn one into a unique gift and so forth. Reminds me of personalized books, print on demand and more – leaving the cover blank is nothing but [...]
One of my favourite blogs of late is innovation playground by Idris Mootee, always insightful and with good ideas. Here he introduces and conceptualizes “design thinking” as natural instrument to “inspire the exploratory process in the business strategy cycle”, while keeping the “balance between business discipline and creativity + imagination”. He shares this presentation: | [...]
Via Dominic Basulto, a nice piece in Wired on design thinking applied to product development processes (“Birth of a Gadget: Inside the Industrial Design Process“): Creating and then manufacturing the Next Big Thing in the world of consumer gadgets is more difficult and complex than you might at first guess. Wired Magazine has put together [...]
