As the Vice President of Technical Strategy and Innovation at IBM, Irving Wladawsky-Berger has emerged as one of the most important voices in the online innovation world. Which is why […]
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I’ve heard a lot about these Acapulco cliff divers (clavadistas), and will finally get a chance to see them in action this week during a trip to Mexico. I’m willing […]
European innovation blogger Hannes Treichl has suggested a possible mascot for the Endless Innovation blog: the chameleon. What creature – if not the chameleon – best represents the fact that […]
n nWriting in the March 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review, business school professors Satish Nambisan and Mohanbir Sawhney describe how the Innovation Capitalist can help consumer product companies with […]
There’s a tendency in certain circles to think of creativity and innovation as something that can be artificially created by introducing all kinds of cool-looking toys and doodads into the […]
I’ve been glued to CNBC for the past two nights, trying to make sense of that unexplained global sell-off in the world equity markets that started in China and ended […]
Within Scotland, economic development leaders are debating what to do about the country’s “chronically low level of innovation” — a situation made all the more distressing by the ability of […]
With much of the mainstream business media focusing on rapid, revolutionary change, it’s always a treat to discover bloggers and consultants who adopt more of an evolutionary view of business […]
Patty Seybold of the Outside Innovation blog points to an interesting collection of posts from Warren Jones, who has assembled a list of 35 different business best practices for driving […]
Every now and then, the Wall Street Journal features results from The Patent Board, which has developed more than 50 indicators that track global patent activity relating to companies’ innovation, […]
On Sunday night, CNBC aired the second part of its five-part Business of Innovation special: Revolution & Evolution. Episode Two of the series examines how some companies manage to innovate […]
n nToday is American pi day. Using the American convention of representing today’s date as 03.14.07, it’s easy to see why mathematicians are so excited about today’s date, which very […]
n nJeff De Cagna, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, is hosting the first-ever Innovation Bloggers Virtual Forum on April 26. The event will consist of two separate […]
n n In a review of the new book Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days, Guy Kawasaki highlights a few of the stories and anecdotes he found most […]
In order for the Indian IT sector to make the next step in its economic development, it must embrace the broader world of business innovation. That’s the thesis of a […]
Is this what Joseph Schumpeter had in mind when he coined the phrase “Creative Destruction”? Today, the Las Vegas Strip’s first mass-market casino-hotel, Stardust, was imploded to make way for […]
Videos and podcasts from the panel discussions at the SXSW 2007 event, which kicked off over the weekend, are now available on the SXSW 2007 site. The event takes place […]
As Dan Bobinski points out in an opinion piece for Management Issues, managers need to spend more time listening to their workers and encouraging them to be creative: “I can’t […]
Gung-ho, blustery entrepreneurs are a dime a dozen. But how many of them would be willing to take a bullet for their product — literally? The From Istanbul to Sand […]
The Chinese economy could finally be showing signs of cooling. Already, Chinese government officials have publicly warned that annual economic growth rates could soon dip below 8%, and most of […]
n nn nn The Economist has caught the innovation bug — as part of Project Red Stripe, a team of Economist staff members are assembling some of the best ideas […]
In part 4 of CNBC’s Business of Innovation TV special, co-hosts Maria Bartiromo and Roger Schank explore the role of people & technology in the innovation process. They kick off […]
n nCoors Light is planning a new online advertising campaign, scheduled for mid-April, that will promote 4:53 as the new 5:00 for office workers. That’s right — the company is […]
n nIn a recent speech that he gave at Parsons School of Design in New York, Business Week’s Bruce Nussbaum explains why there has been a backlash against design. According […]
In an opinion piece for Management Issues (“The Cosmic Egg of Change”), Max McKeown points out that organizations often approach innovation as if they were dealing with a blank slate. […]
The Wal-Mart name gets dragged through the mud so often these days that it’s nice to give props to the company when it comes up with innovative new ideas. Buried […]
On the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal, venture capitalist and tech visionary Esther Dyson weighs in on the emergence of new aviation and commercial space start-ups and explains […]
The Wired blog has put together a gallery of 17 photos documenting the evolution of the computer mouse over the past 45 years. It all started with a simple wooden […]
In Part 3 of CNBC’s Business of Innovation series, Maria Bartiromo and co-host Roger Schank focus on the role of the customer during the innovation process. In some cases, it […]
n With the April 17 tax filing deadline just around the corner, H&R Block has launched the first-ever “virtual tax experience” in Second Life: nn “The company that first brought […]