One of the most interesting trends on Wall Street these days is the creation of the SPAC, or Special Purpose Acquisition Company, in order to bring IPO riches to investors […]
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Over on the On Disruption blog, software executive and guitar enthusiast Zack Urlocker has posted a great case study of disruptive change within the billion-dollar professional guitar industry. What happens […]
Today is the day that die-hard Yankee fans have been eagerly looking forward to since October – Pitchers and Catchers Day down in Tampa, Florida. As Spring Training finally kicks […]
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal ran an online survey of its readers, asking them to predict which form of alternative energy would be most prevalent by the year 2030. […]
n nWhen I listened in on the Xerox conference call a few weeks ago, they mentioned a slew of innovative new products scheduled for the first half of 2007, but […]
n nIdeas are the life-blood of the innovation community. With that in mind, over on the Principled Innovation blog, Jeff De Cagna announces the launch of a new series of […]
n nWhen it comes to innovation, is it too much of a simplification to say that there are two types of people — creationists and evolutionists? Creationists believe that most […]
Obviously spooked by the prospect that Americans might finally embrace alternative energy sources like ethanol, the oil industry is mounting a massive PR campaign based around “innovation” to get out […]
One of the most interesting examples in Malcolm Gladwell‘s landmark book The Tipping Point was the case of shoe retailer Hush Puppies, which experienced a hipster revival in the mid-1990s, […]
This case study of Disney kicks off what I hope becomes a regular series on business innovation that I’m calling “Survival of the Most Innovative.” (an obvious reference to the […]
Fortress Investment Group, the first-ever hedge fund IPO, starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. If you don’t already have your hard-earned dollars (or euros) tucked away in […]
Now is your chance to ask Donald Trump any question you want – preferably about innovation or creativity, but if you want to know something about Melanie, hey, that’s your […]
Langdon Morris, author of the book Permanent Innovation, has just posted the latest results of an online survey on innovation that was conducted by Innovation Labs during November and December. […]
n nOver at the Great Human Capital blog, Margaret Wheatley has written a beautifully moving description of innovation that ties in to many of the themes that will appear here […]
Many would claim that “innovation” remains the hottest buzzword in business today. Yet, according to this graphical chart from Google Trends (which measures the popularity of certain search requests), it […]
This weekend’s New York Times Magazine featured a great cover story on Toyota, which explained how the Japanese company has become the acknowledged leader in the global automobile industry. At […]
Let’s face it – deep down, you secretly long to create a popular YouTube video clip that you can brag about to your friends and colleagues. About two weeks ago […]
As part of its “Works & Process” series of events, the Guggenheim Museum in New York is presenting a lecture by legendary physicist, mathematician and futurist Freeman Dyson of Princeton’s […]
As the Arizona Republic explains, for the past 2 1/2 years, a team of researchers at Arizona State and the University of Pittsburgh have been using a mix of anthropology, […]
So, I was thumbing through the most recent issue of FORTUNE magazine and clipping out some advertisements from corporate sponsors that touched on the innovation theme. I came up with […]
Every week, the Wall Street Journal publishes a quick-and-dirty “Tricks of the Trade” column with an expert within a certain field. Some weeks, it might be a wine sommelier at […]
Bruce Nussbaum’s post over at Business Week about the Backlash Against Innovation has started to resonate throughout the innovation community. While Bruce points out that the real work about innovation […]
Marketing guru Seth Godin coins new terms and expressions on a regular basis, and this time, he’s decided to trade in his Purple Cow for a Purple Sheep. As Godin […]
n n If you’ve ever flown out of New York City, you know that it can be a nightmare actually getting out of Manhattan to the airport — it doesn’t […]
This has to be one of the most interesting events of the year – the first-ever New Yorker conference on innovation. The tab ($1,200), though, is a bit steep, unless […]
As seen on Reuters, Viagra plans to offer over-the-counter Viagra pills to British men for the first time ever starting today: “Men will be able to buy impotence treatment Viagra […]
Over at Business Week, Bruce Nussbaum suggests that the growing backlash against innovation in the media is really a backlash against companies that falsely attempt to portray themselves as innovators. […]
This is probably the single most disturbing thing you will read on this Valentine’s Day: an “innovative” Parisian fashion designer has decided that the waist-cinching corset should become the Next […]
n In the current issue of New York Magazine, Kurt Andersen describes the changing dynamics of the media business, with a focus on how established media outlets like the New […]
The past two weeks have been rough for JetBlue. Just before Valentine’s Day, the snow and ice that swept through the Northeast paralyzed the airline company’s operations in New York, […]