Dominic Basulto
Digital Thinker, Electric Artists
Dominic Basulto is a digital thinker at Electric Artists in New York and a contributor to The Washington Post's Ideas@Innovations blog. He is working on a manuscript of a new book on innovation called "Endless Innovation, Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful."
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This thought-provoking cartoon, distributed by the Universal Press Syndicate, is called Unclestiltskin. What happens to America when we deplete all of our natural resources and realize that we’ve squandered away […]
n nIn her “Practical Innovation” column for CIO.com, Elana Varon explains why IT departments often have such a hard time coming up with new innovations. On the one hand, the […]
The notion of corporate R&D is undergoing a radical transformation. Instead of viewing research and development as separate silos of an organization staffed by separate employees, companies are now working […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the Wall Street Journal, former Ogilvy & Mather CEO Kenneth Roman recently reviewed the new bestseller-to-be from Marcus Buckingham, Go Put Your Strengths To Work. If the title sounds […]
This was bound to happen, sooner or later. All the media buzz around the innovative new brand of economics known as “Freakonomics” (after the best-selling book of the same name) […]
What if Madonna had a sale at H&M to unveil her new special-edition clothing line and nobody came? Judging by the obligatory “empty store” pics in newspapers around the world, […]
The fascinating thing about emerging markets is that they sometimes skip a step when it comes to economic development. It looks like Russia has skipped the Frank Gehry phase of […]
It looks like Samsung is opening up its R&D process to outsiders. (Hat tip: Chris F. Masse of the Midas Oracle) The new Pitch Your Ideas site from Samsung encourages […]
Over at the Creativity and Innovation Driving Business blog, Sanjay Dalal has been tracking the performance of the Innovation Index, a basket of 20 stocks comprised of innovators such as […]
In an effort to revamp its curriculum to focus more on innovation and creativity, Harvard Business School announced on April 1 that Sacha Baron Cohen will be teaching a new […]
n If you think running a marathon is difficult, try running one while floating hundreds of miles through low-Earth orbit at 17,500 mph. According Yahoo! News, a U.S. astronaut will […]
The March 26 issue of U.S. News & World Report includes a cool cover story on what America can learn from the rest of the world: “We have the biggest […]