It’s often the case that imposing constraints can actually lead to more, not less innovation. Consider the case of the Tata Nano, which launched today in Mumbai to much acclaim […]
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How innovative is your city? McKinsey Digital has released a new innovation study of the world’s leading cities, grouping them into one of four different categories — “hot springs,” “dynamic […]
For anyone interested in learning “what’s next,” Paul Saffo’s keynote address at the World Innovation Forum in New York City earlier this week presented a number of tantalizing previews. According […]
At the World Innovation Forum in New York City, Harvard’s Clayton Christensen delighted the audience with his classic story of the “milkshake” (as seen at the top right of the […]
Fred Krupp will be speaking on the topic, “How Innovators Can Win the Race for the Future: The Climate Challenge.” Fred Krupp is a pioneer in the use of market […]
To cap off Day 2 of the World Innovation Forum, Dan Ariely will be speaking on the topic, “The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.” Dan Ariely is a professor […]
To kick off Day 2 of the World Innovation Forum, Clayton Christensen will be speaking on the topic, “Disruptive Innovation as a Platform for Growth.” Clayton Christensen, world-renowned for his […]
For full, blow-by-blow coverage of Day 1 of the World Innovation Forum in NYC, click here. From the Pitney Bowes bloggers hub, I was using the nifty Cover It Live […]
To cap off Day 1 of the World Innovation Forum, Vijay Govindarajan will be speaking on the topic, “Strategic Innovators: From Ideas to Execution.” Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as […]
C.K. Prahalad will be speaking on the topic, “The Future of Innovation: On Customers, Needs, Global Resources and Value Creation.” C.K. Prahalad is one of the most influential experts in […]
World Innovation Forum keynote speaker Paul Saffo will be be speaking on the topic, “Untangling the Future: Why Innovations Never Follow a Straight Line.” Paul Saffo is a forecaster and […]
World Innovation Forum 2009 On May 5 and May 6 next week, I’ll be live-blogging the World Innovation Forum from the Nokia Theater in midtown Manhattan. Please join me as […]
Enjoyed this clever “evolution of advertising” image — the Don Drapers of the world are thinking about the next bottle of champagne, not about PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat. [image: Career […]
At the end of the day, any industry can be thought of as an ecosystem. In this compelling presentation, social media strategist Jeremiah Owyang suggests that the social web can […]
Within the Web 2.0 world, there’s been a lot of buzz about “unlocking” content so that it is free to travel across the social Web. With that in mind, I’ve […]
These are Darwinian times, in which only the fastest and strongest survive. With that in mind, Google has partnered with London Business School and the Daily Telegraph in the U.K. […]
Ever wanted to become part of a collaborative Internet community where individuals, experts and companies come together to transform ideas into true innovation? Taking advantage of the buzz surrounding crowdsourcing […]
As the economic recession continues to take a bigger and bigger toll on people’s livelihoods, a number of companies are stepping up with new promotions that seek to reduce some […]
The recent skirmish between Apple and Google — filled with legal inuendos, regulatory scuffles and high-profile departures — has, if anything, crystallized for me what I had been thinking for […]
As we roll into another summer weekend, here are some of the best innovation links for the week of July 27 – July 31: Deconstructing the Wildly-Popular YouTube Wedding Video […]
In her latest “visual column” for the New York Times, the always-inspiring Maira Kalman documents the many innovations of Benjamin Franklin. The question is not what did Franklin invent, but […]
The Silver Lining, a new strategy book from innovation guru Scott Anthony at Cambridge-based Innosight, is a valuable playbook for bringing disruptive innovation into the enterprise at a time when […]
New York Times R&D; Group: Moving the news into your living room from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo. In a push to regain favor with advertisers and Wall Street analysts, […]
Sequence the human genome. Been there, done that. Genomics pioneer Craig Venter is now moving on to a colossal new project to develop and produce new second-generation biofuels from algae. […]
The July/August “Ideas” issue of The Atlantic (still available on some newsstands) is chock-full of innovation goodness, including one of the best-written articles that I’ve read in some time about […]
Speaking of the evolution of industries, I couldn’t pass up this example of the upside-down flying goose. This is what innovation looks like in the wild. In this case, the […]
Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money is a first-rate historical study of the growth of the modern financial system — and a look ahead at what might happen now that […]
n In the current issue of strategy + business magazine, Christopher Vollmer, a partner with Booz & Company in New York City, comments on the “digital Darwinism” that is reshaping […]
Convert Design Evolution from tap tap tap on Vimeo. The product development process is, if nothing else, a highly iterative process. In this fascinating two-minute clip from tap tap tap, […]
One of my favorite trend-watching e-newsletters has always been Jeremy Gutsche’s Trend Hunter – a site chock full of innovation that always seems to have its hand on the pulse […]