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CES 2023 Subtle Innovation: Early Impressions of Subtle Innovation

CES 2023 Subtle Innovation: Early Impressions of Subtle Innovation

on 4 January, 2023

CES 2023 Subtle Innovation: Early Impressions of Subtle Innovation Fresh off the CES Unveiled event which highlights innovations from start-ups and major brands, I would characterize what I saw as sub…

A Serious Insights How To: Creating A Maturity Model Assessment

A Serious Insights How To: Creating A Maturity Model Assessment

on 28 July, 2022

A Serious Insights How To: Creating A Maturity Model Assessment For several years I worked with GlobalEnglish, a data-driven English learning company (now part of Learnship) that assessed people’s E…

An Interview with OWC CEO Larry O’Connor on Innovation and Customer Centricity

An Interview with OWC CEO Larry O’Connor on Innovation and Customer Centricity

on 18 April, 2022

An Interview with OWC CEO Larry O’Connor on Innovation and Customer Centricity I recently had the pleasure of hopping on a video conference with OWC CEO and Founder, Larry O’Connor. The following …

The New Vulcan Inc. Holodome at Seattle’s MoPOP Offers Trippy View Into Future of VR

The New Vulcan Inc. Holodome at Seattle’s MoPOP Offers Trippy View Into Future of VR

on 8 April, 2019

The New Vulcan Inc. Holodome at Seattle’s MoPOP Offers Trippy View Into Future of VR Most virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (VR) experiences remain cumbersome. Although headsets have become…

Knowledge and Innovation: 21 Critical Innovation Principles that Benefit from Knowledge Management

Knowledge and Innovation: 21 Critical Innovation Principles that Benefit from Knowledge Management

on 10 September, 2018

Knowledge and Innovation: 21 Innovation Principles That Benefit from a KM Perspective Knowledge management often sounds like a controlling function, but it can also be a liberating one. Seeking knowle…

Innovation: More Poetry than Science

Innovation: More Poetry than Science

on 12 July, 2018

An earlier version of this post originally appeared at Fast Company Innovation: More Poetry than Science Practical lessons from 35 years of writing poetry to help individuals and teams deliver more in…

Challenging IBM’s Innovation Findings in ‘Insatiable Innovation’

Challenging IBM’s Innovation Findings in ‘Insatiable Innovation’

on 23 July, 2015

Insatiable Innovation? I was intrigued by the IBM Institute for Business Value report titled Insatiable Innovation. I like the title. America has lead the world to desire, expect and consume innovati…

New Report: Ten Innovations That Should Drive Collaboration Technology

New Report: Ten Innovations That Should Drive Collaboration Technology

on 23 June, 2015

Ten Innovations That Should Drive Collaboration Technology Download Ten Innovations That Should Drive Collaboration Technology here:  This report outlines ten areas of technology innovation led by a …

Rasmus Quote at “One CIO’s Musings”: Innovating Around the Candle

Rasmus Quote at “One CIO’s Musings”: Innovating Around the Candle

on 7 June, 2015

Spending all day innovating around the candle does not get us to the light bulb. Daniel W. Rasmus Thank you to Kyle Johnson for the shout-out on a Gilbane Conference keynote quote, and his riff on inn…

Why Tech’s Biggest Players Favor The Illusion Of Progress Over Real Innovation

Why Tech’s Biggest Players Favor The Illusion Of Progress Over Real Innovation

on 22 March, 2013

Science fiction promised a future of intelligent devices designed to serve their owners. But today’s technology serves its manufacturers more than its end user. Read the entire post at Fast Comp…

Eliminating Your Company’s Fear of Change

Eliminating Your Company’s Fear of Change

on 30 August, 2012

This post has been updated to include COVID pandemic perspectives. Eliminating Your Company’s Fear of Change It’s time to argue with bloggers over at Harvard Business Review again. In Cur…

How Innovation Is More Poetry Than Science now up at Fast Company

How Innovation Is More Poetry Than Science now up at Fast Company

on 18 July, 2012

In a recent conversation with Phil McKinney, former HP Chief Innovation Officer and author of Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing Innovation, we discussed innovation and theo…

New Fast Company Blog Post: Redefining Diversity For The New Global Workforce

New Fast Company Blog Post: Redefining Diversity For The New Global Workforce

on 22 June, 2012

Our views of diversity in America are changing, but they aren’t keeping up with the global reality that now faces American companies. Traditionally, diversity-focused on the integration of people fr…

Innovation in Education Requires Smart use of Resources, Including People’s Time

Innovation in Education Requires Smart use of Resources, Including People’s Time

on 17 April, 2012

Education Innovation In Kevin Pashuk’s post Why Your School Needs a Sandbox, the CIO argues that creating a sandbox reinforced education innovation and creates a mechanism for executing experime…

Retro Thinking During A Difficult Kodak Moment

Retro Thinking During A Difficult Kodak Moment

on 13 January, 2012

Way back in 2005, Bloomberg Businessweek ran a piece called “A Tense Kodak Moment.” “Low-margin digital sales aren’t picking up the slack of disappearing film profits, and debt is …

3 Reasons CIOs Need Scenario Planning

3 Reasons CIOs Need Scenario Planning

on 23 December, 2011

3 Reasons CIOs Need Scenario Planning Scenario planning is the art and practice of imagining multiple futures to create a strategic context for planning and decision-making. Pioneered by Royal Dutch S…

Must Listen: Reinventing Discovery: The New Era Of Networked Science

Must Listen: Reinventing Discovery: The New Era Of Networked Science

on 17 November, 2011

A must-listen interview from Seattle’s KUOW THE CONVERSATION. Reinventing Discovery delivers a highly recommended new way to see science. It hints about how the Serendipity Economy is becoming r…

Shakespeare in Theory – and Why Computer’s Aren’t As Interesting As They Used to Be

Shakespeare in Theory – and Why Computer’s Aren’t As Interesting As They Used to Be

on 11 November, 2011

or Shakespeare isn’t Anonymous In light of the fun, interesting, and I think, utterly fictional Anonymous, I thought I would repost this item from my now defunct Future of Information Work blog.…

Confronting the Pace of Change

Confronting the Pace of Change

on 20 September, 2011

Thinking out loud about the pace of change. For more serious insights on innovation click here.…

Lady Gaga, Angry Birds and the Separation of Social Media States

Lady Gaga, Angry Birds and the Separation of Social Media States

on 24 August, 2011

Yesterday I experienced the equivalent of a one-day best seller for my blog post about innovation lessons derived from studying Lady Gaga (“The Tens-Ten Lessons You Can Learn About Innovation by…

Lady Gaga Innovation: Ten Lessons You Can Learn About Innovation by Studying Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga Innovation: Ten Lessons You Can Learn About Innovation by Studying Lady Gaga

on 15 August, 2011

Lady Gaga Innovation: Ten Lessons Experiment Innovation requires the ability to experiment, and along with that, the ability to let go of things that don’t work. Failure should be a lesson, not a ma…

Balancing the Education Equation with Execution, Transformation and Innovation

Balancing the Education Equation with Execution, Transformation and Innovation

on 11 August, 2011

Education Innovation In a society driven by industrial age economics and measurements, it isn’t surprising that we have slowly transformed the first knowledge economy work, education, into a fac…

What Can Twitter do for Facilities Management?

What Can Twitter do for Facilities Management?

on 2 August, 2011

The European Facilities Management Conference in Vienna featured a student poster contest. I was taken by Tilburg University’s Dorian Teensma’s and his Twitter idea. Unfortunately, I wasn&…

Six Cautions for IT in the Cloud Planners, or Why Bernard Golden is Wrong

Six Cautions for IT in the Cloud Planners, or Why Bernard Golden is Wrong

on 2 August, 2011

CIO Magazine ran a story this week (July 29, 2010) on six predictions on how cloud computing will change IT, taking it from the hodgepodge of today’s options into the smooth waters of a post-clo…

A Simple Change: Outsource Lectures, not Homework

A Simple Change: Outsource Lectures, not Homework

on 20 July, 2011

In July 2011 Wired printed an article titled: The New Way to Be a Fifth Grader, which outlines how the Kahn Academy is changing education for schools and for individuals. I think the simple idea of ou…

Being a skeptical conference presentation consumer

Being a skeptical conference presentation consumer

on 23 June, 2011

Conference presentations are difficult work: take a big, messy concept or idea and distill it down to fit into some arbitrary time constraint pre-determined by the conference leaders. Credibility wane…

5 Strategies for Entering Emerging Technology Markets

5 Strategies for Entering Emerging Technology Markets

on 14 April, 2011

Entering Emerging Technology Markets: After reading RIM PlayBook reviews (good summary by InformationWeek) when it was announced, and I think there are lessons to be learned that go well beyond the ta…

The Tens—Why Google Shouldn’t Focus on Facebook

on 21 March, 2011

It seems nearly every article about Google these days focuses on the competition between Google and Facebook. If Google believes the trade hype, they will be in more trouble than if they stay focused …

Why Devices will Rule the Future

Why Devices will Rule the Future

on 14 March, 2011

I have watched a number of vision videos, and almost all of them have one thing in common: major infrastructure assumptions. Glass walls with controls, rooms with special speakers and microphones, sen…

The other side of the jobless recovery?

on 13 March, 2011

Reposted from The Future of Information Work: 11/2/2009 5:28:51 PM It has been speculated recently that technology has significantly contributed to the restructuring of labor markets. Today’s Comput…

The Microsoft Tablet Strategy: Time to Redefine

The Microsoft Tablet Strategy: Time to Redefine

on 1 March, 2011

The Microsoft Tablet Strategy: Time to Re-examine My first review of a Tablet PC was posted this morning at Tablet PC Magazine. I looked at the Dell Inspiron Duo. The hardware was solid but was missin…

HP Breaking the Redmond Dependency–A Tale of Two Strategies, Two Futures

HP Breaking the Redmond Dependency–A Tale of Two Strategies, Two Futures

on 17 February, 2011

Nokia’s Stephen Elop is getting some grief for his choice of Windows to fuel his company’s new SmartPhones. (see Grief and disbelief greet Elop’s Nokia revolution)  Over at HP, …

Where Next for Nokia and Microsoft?–Be the Best Windows Phone Partner or Be Irrelevant

Where Next for Nokia and Microsoft?–Be the Best Windows Phone Partner or Be Irrelevant

on 11 February, 2011

So Nokia has decided to partner with Microsoft. The details may have changed, but my strategic advice to them remains the same. They need to analyze their strengths against the competitors and combine…

What We Won’t Learn from IBM’s Watson Playing Jeopardy!

What We Won’t Learn from IBM’s Watson Playing Jeopardy!

on 17 January, 2011

The game show Jeopardy! will host an unusual array of contestants on Februrary 14-16, 2011. Two of the shows superstars, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, will be pitted against Watson, an artificial inte…

Management by Design: What’s in it for Your Organization? #MBDBK

on 6 January, 2011

I do a fair amount of marketing consulting, and we spend hours talking about value propositions. So I thought I would share the value proposition for Management by Design. And today is a good day to h…

Why Start-Ups Need More Strategic Planning, and Why Investors Should Help Provide It

on 22 December, 2010

Single-minded passion for the idea. That is a typical of what people think about when think about the success of a new product or service. The individual and his or her team that tirelessly drive towa…

Why I Wrote Management by Design

Why I Wrote Management by Design

on 17 December, 2010

I have never worked at a company that really thought about its workplace experience, nor one that encouraged it managers to do so. We praise design in everything else, but the places where we spend ou…

VR Education: 5 Reasons to Integrate (more) Virtual Reality into Learning Now

VR Education: 5 Reasons to Integrate (more) Virtual Reality into Learning Now

on 16 December, 2010

VR Education: Exploring Reasons to Increase Using in Learning As costs for education continue to increase: human capital costs and real estate costs (and its related costs of energy and maintenance), …

Internet Evolution: Microsoft’s Missing the Boat on Kinect for Office

on 7 December, 2010

Here’s my conclusion: Microsoft argues that its divisions are more innovative together than apart. Kinect presents an opportunity for this cross-fertilization to manifest itself. Perhaps if Micr…

Scenarios and Innovation: Where in the Process?

Scenarios and Innovation: Where in the Process?

on 14 February, 2022

In a past post I explored into scenarios and innovation in great depth (see How Does Scenario Planning Help Drive Innovation). I was reading a piece in the Financial Times called Another Way of to dev…

Being Steve Job’s Boss: Understanding Vision

on 7 November, 2010

I don’t know if the follow quote from the Bloomberg BusinessWeek article of October 25-October 31 2010 (Being Steve Job’s Boss) will get to you as much as it did me, but I talk about vision all of…

Public Institutions, Planning and Budget Cuts

on 26 October, 2010

Planning for the future can seem like a waste of time when just keeping the lights on is a struggle. Budget cuts are hitting many public institutions, including schools, colleges and universities. The…

First Pass: What’s Wrong with the Grand Challenges for Engineering

on 7 October, 2010

At the risk of committing more overthinking of the Grand Challenges for Engineering, I want to take a first pass at discussing what I think is wrong with them in a very specific way, and honing the li…

City Planning: A Prescription for Cities

City Planning: A Prescription for Cities

on 25 August, 2010

A response to the Huffington Post piece on 10 Local American Economies That Have Change Forever. City planning. Cities have traditionally been opportunistic. Some entrepreneurs select a city as a site…

The Problem with Housing Starts: Why we need new national economic metrics

The Problem with Housing Starts: Why we need new national economic metrics

on 25 July, 2010

Toward new national economic metrics: Housing starts (New residential construction) and foreclosures offer insight into the current economic malaise in the United States. They also reflect an ingraine…

My Approach to Innovative Thinking: Moving to An Innovative State of Mind

My Approach to Innovative Thinking: Moving to An Innovative State of Mind

on 11 June, 2010

An Approach to Innovative Thinking An approach to innovation…I was asked recently by one of my former Microsoft colleagues to answer five questions about how I approach analysis and solutions as…

Scenarios and Innovation: 6 Answers to How Scenario Planning Helps Drive Innovation

Scenarios and Innovation: 6 Answers to How Scenario Planning Helps Drive Innovation

on 10 June, 2010

Scenarios and Innovation: How Do the Differing Contexts of Multiple Scenarios Help Drive Innovation? When discussing scenarios and innovation, I am often asked how scenario planning helps drive innova…

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