‘Strategic Thinking’ Archive

How to get good (transformative) ideas

I would say that good ideas come from having many ideas … but there’s more, via BoingBoing: […]  a short video promo for Steven Johnson’s upcoming Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, a lecture on the way that transformative ideas incubate for long times, come out of left field, and thrive best […]

You will always be a beginner. Get good at it.

Via BoingBoing via KevinKelly in the NYTimes: • Every new technology will bite back. The more powerful its gifts, the more powerfully it can be abused. Look for its costs. • Technologies improve so fast you should postpone getting anything you need until the last second. Get comfortable with the fact that anything you buy […]

Crowd accelerated innovation

I guess there’s a reason why linkblogging is making heavy use of embedded videos … instant propagation of ideas and inspiration, leading me to think about the role of vidco in enterprise collaboration. OK, this got also fueled by this post by Alex Howard on the O’Reilly Radar Channel, check out the part on video […]

Storytelling, holistic design and UX

Experience Themes: An Element of Story Applied to Design View more presentations from Cindy Chastain. via contagious ideas

What Technology Wants

This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not as a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover “what it wants.” Kelly […]

Business Model Innovation: Seizing the white space

Video via Erwin Fielt Seizing the white space and the importance of business model innovation, earmarked one more time after downloading (while not yet reading) a range of articles from a – freely available – special issue of Long Range Planning on business model innovation. Patrick is not exactly happy about academic practices et al.: […]

Human Factors in Design

Designing for peopleView more presentations from whatidiscover. Earmarked for inspirational methods.