Dominic Basulto

With the final season of HBO’s The Sopranos fast approaching, I’ve been looking for ways to work the word “whacked” into my daily conversation. I decided that maybe a Sopranos-style […]

n nThe fifth and final segment of CNBC’s “Business of Innovation” TV series is based around the theme of Loners & Teammates. During the one-hour show, Maria Bartiromo and (the […]

Recently spotted this ad from Baruch College in the New York Post. The headline and picture make a compelling argument: EVOLVE your career (or you’re a dinosaur).

n nThere was a fascinating cover story in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday (the article runs about 10 pages, so be forewarned!), in which Ann Hulbert examined the […]

If you’re interested in the future of the yellow cab, the free Taxi 07 exhibit in New York City opens this week: “Come see the future of the NYC taxi. […]

According to Greenpeace’s latest “Green Ranking” (released on Wednesday), Chinese PC maker Lenovo is the world’s most environmentally conscious electronics maker. The lowest-ranked company on Greenpeace’s list is, surprisingly enough, […]

According to a new report by Sirota Survey Intelligence, there’s a “perceptions gap” between senior-level executives and rank-and-file employees when it comes to innovation. People at the top of the […]

If Apple iTunes has made $0.99 the de facto price for a music download, what should be the price of a CEO “download”? According to Google, the price should be […]

n nIn their new bookMade to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, the Heath brothers — Chip Heath, anprofessor of organizational behavior at Stanford and Dan Heath, a […]

It looks like the notion of “open innovation” is starting to gain momentum in the mainstream media. In the March issue of Fast Company, Alan Deutschman discusses the wide-open organization: […]

Over at U.S. News & World Report, James Pethokoukis has assembled a Who’s Who of the innovation world — including Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing — to offer their opinions and […]

Saw this advertisement for tiny Trinidad & Tobago in the Wall Street Journal yesterday highlighting the country’s enormous innovation potential: “Every country has a moment before promise becomes reality. With […]

Some are calling Portfolio the most important and anticipated magazine launch of the year, and maybe even the last big magazine launch ever. Joanne Lipman, formerly of the Wall Street […]

In order to breathe more life into its stable of consumer brands, General Mills is embracing a new strategy of open innovation. The company hopes to follow in the footsteps […]

n nThe consistently excellent Innovating to Win blog points out that chess strategy holds a number of important lessons for business innovators. Here are five key principles from chess that […]

Understanding Most Significant Change [Shop Talk Marketing] Royal Dutch Shell and the end of peak oil [The Weekly Standard] The Innovation Slush Fund [Innovate on Purpose] Creativity: What can I […]

n nOver at the IdeaPort blog, Roger Dennis points to a Long Now Foundation podcast from Philip Tetlock, who explains how people making predictions about the future can be divided […]

For anyone interested in innovation within the automotive sector, I’d suggest keeping an eye on Cerberus Capital Management. (The private equity firm is named for the mythological three-headed dog that […]

n nOver at Design Sojourn, there’s a great list of 7 ways to unlock your inner creativity. Many of the ideas have been adapted from or inspired by IDEO, one […]

Google has already built an organizational culture that puts a premium on innovation. As Bloomberg News points out, it looks like the company is taking steps to ensure that it […]

The alternative energy craze is kicking into high gear. In fact, it’s starting to remind me of tales from the Middle Ages, when everyone sought to transform a substance like […]

The latest in the MIT World “Distributed Intelligence” video series of speakers talking about innovation and the future features Rich Templeton, president and CEO of Texas Instruments. According to Templeton, […]

n nA big hat tip to the Soviet military-industrial-space complex: on April 19, 1971 — exactly 36 years ago today — the Soviets launched the first-ever operational space station, known […]

Marketing guru Seth Godin has launched a new site, The Dip, to promote his new book by the same name. Earlier in the week, Seth profiled a number of “quitters” […]

Hugo Chavez of Venezuela takes home this week’s Big Brother Innovation Prize for his decision to launch a new all-seeing, all-powerful, crime-fighting blimp in Caracas: “Venezuela launched a Zeppelin on […]

n nWith the usual Booz Allen Hamilton caveat that absolute levels of R&D spending offer little or now indication of how innovative a company really is, it is instructive every […]

Michael Raynor, who co-authored The Innovator’s Solution with Clayton Christensen in 2003, recently published a new book called The Strategy Paradox that touches on key issues surrounding innovation and corporate […]

In this brief YouTube clip, legendary management guru Tom Peters says that the business of innovation is actually easier than one might suppose: “Hang out with weird, and thou shalt […]

n nWithin the travel & hospitality space, a number of hotel brands are discovering Web 2.0 as a way to build communities of like-minded individuals. For example, Westin Hotels & […]

The May 14 issue of The New Yorker is chock-full of innovation goodness, including profiles of innovators like Richard Branson, graffiti artist Banksy, and Wall Street Journal tech guru Walt […]