Guest Thinkers

n I’ve been keeping my eye on Square, a potentially disruptive innovation in the financial services space. Imagine, for a second, if any individual or small business could accept credit […]

n Since 2003, IDEO has distributed more than 10,000 decks of its Method Cards to innovators and creative types around the world. Now, the legendary design & innovation firm is […]

n In an article about women-friendly innovation in emerging markets, The Economist unpacks the concept of “wominnovation” by examining how societies can harness the power of innovation to empower women […]

n Vodafone Group’s user experience / concept development group has put together a brief video clip that explores the future of lifestreaming. There are some unique interactive visualizations in the […]

Here’s something that Deadheads could have told you 40 years ago — there’s a lot the Grateful Dead can teach you about running a business. In the March 2010 issue […]

In the era of the social Web — when it’s possible to tweet, blog or status update every miniscule fact of one’s life — it’s fashionable to opine that every […]

n This week’s op-ed piece (Microsoft’s Creative Destruction) in the New York Times from Dick Brass, a former Microsoft VP, was a wake up call for the tech world. In […]

The 4th of July is as appropriate a time as any to reflect back on what makes America such a great nation of innovation. In many ways, it is the […]

In its June issue, Monocle surveys 20 to Watch: the most innovative brands and companies in the world that might just become “the Uniqlos and Hyatts of tomorrow.” These are […]

For the past six months, Lady Gaga has parlayed her amazing success in the music and entertainment world to become the unofficial poster child for creativity and innovation in the […]

n PSFK presents Future of Retail report View more presentations from PSFK. Ever wondered how product bar codes, new mobile applications and augmented reality will change the way we shop […]

In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Anjali Athavaley recently described why it is so hard to design an umbrella that won’t collapse or flip inside out. It’s not […]

Ever since the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, Richard Florida has been at the forefront of the national debate about the role of the creative […]

Of late, I’ve been fascinated by the “back story” behind the creative process, especially with the factors that drive innovators to succeed with any creative project. With the re-release of […]

In a format reminiscent of PechaKucha 20 x 20 (20 PowerPoint slides in 20 minutes or less) events, Saatchi & Saatchi asked 7 of the world’s leading creative thinkers in […]

n Interested in getting an early look at the breakthrough technologies of tomorrow? The Planet Green’s Dean of Invention show, featuring legendary inventor Dean Kamen, premieres Friday, October 22: “Dean […]

This Friday, GE and the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will be hosting an event in New York City to explore how design thinking can help solve some of the world’s greatest […]

Before leaving for Moscow this summer, I asked people – “What is the one place you’d visit in Moscow that best symbolizes how the city has changed over the past […]

As Steven Johnson explains in his animated book video for Where Good Ideas Come From, chance truly does favor the connected mind. We’re living in the great Age of Connectivity, […]

So much of what makes for a great innovator is not the ability to come up with a great idea — but, rather, the ability to “merchandise” that great idea […]

On the way to celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2014, the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg (formerly the Winter Palace of the Russian czars) hired legendary architect Rem Koolhaas to […]

With the caveat that “it’s usually not a great idea to look for innovation tips in the storyline of television series, even award-winning ones,” H. James Wilson of the Harvard […]

In his bestselling business book The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson explained how and why great innovations often occur at the intersection of wildly different disciplines. One of the examples he […]

n The current cover of Newsweek – The Creativity Crisis in America – admittedly had me intrigued, especially given all the press that Newsweek has generated of late about a […]

n Why aren’t more publishers embracing the iPad as a disruptive platform? Out of the Top 20 highest-circulation magazines, only 6 have iPad apps of any kind — and, of […]

Ever since the introduction of the iTunes music store, I was under the impression that $0.99 would become the default price for all digital content. One way or another, content […]

n Why do we love our digital devices? The answer might surprise you — it’s not because they look good, feel good or are somehow aspirational of where we want […]

n It’s almost a cliche these days to say that the Web is accelerating the move toward an attention-deficit disorder literary culture that celebrates the 140-character tweet but has a […]

n Since 2007, Bulbstorm has been at the forefront of smart thinking about ways that companies and brands can tap into powerful ideas online and then transform them into new products […]

n It’s always fun to watch I Drink Your Milkshake moments play out in the corporate world – those dramatic moments when one company announces that it will take over […]