Last week I spent a day with Microsoft managers in Redmond,
Calif. Much of the talk was about Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine. You may
have already read a lot about Bing – the massive marketing campaign of people ...READ»
'The Dawn of the Color Photograph' is a wonderful book I recently had the pleasure of discovering. It's a treasure trove of color images from the early 1900's.READ»
The reality is it’s both but most of the time it depends on your business, how big you are and how you’ve structured it!
For those that are unclear, top down innovation is normally the domain of the small business owner or ...READ»
There is so much more I want to say about Big Think, so many more patterns to
uncover, but time and space requires that we focus on just the core strategies
at work here. And from my perspective, Big
Think’s most ...READ»
Last
week I introduced a
compelling new web site – bigthink.com. Its founders, Peter Hopkins and Victoria
Brown, didn’t have enough initial funding to take competitors head on, so
they had to find different approaches ...READ»
I’m in Colombia right now doing a
series of seminars for different groups and companies, including
Hewlett-Packard. As I travel across the globe, I see one positive sign of this
worldwide economic breakdown – people ...READ»
Many factors clashing together have made this a time in our economic history like none that we have seen before. With unemployment at a 25 year high, competition is fierce for the limited supply of available jobs. For obvious ...READ»
If a customer asks me to design an airplane will do the Black Box first. Rather than a physical device will think of a recording function for the last 30 minutes of flight readings and cockpit voice in a safe data vault tied up with ...READ»
If I were to design a garden, will start with the grass. Will be of a fixed height and desired color from an endless palette, will glow at night and will absorb more water than required in order to create a micro climate like a rain ...READ»
Over the last several
months, I’ve introduced companies that are successful while also doing good for
all stakeholders – employees, the community and shareholders. Many of the
companies that I have introduced are younger, ...READ»
When it comes to economic crisis, grizzled veterans like Intel have stared into the abyss before and lived to tell the tale. We look at how several giants are approaching today's meltdown with distinctive strategies for not only surviving but also thriving.READ»
That is the question.
With a million and one answers.
Twitter, the 140-character micro-blogging site, has generated the largest social media tsunami of the past year.
Pundit opinion runs the gamut from the ...READ»
I believe that success requires constant evolution and like all successful innovators, Global Medical Imaging (GMI) is ready to change again. Two years after successfully shifting its business model from only offering medical ...READ»
If everyone else is selling apples, you should be selling apple pie. If everyone else is selling apple pie, you should be selling apples. By aggregating or disaggregating things, you can step away from direct comparison with your ...READ»
In 2005 Ryan Dienst and his team were coming to a painful realization. The medical imaging device company they founded three years ago was in the wrong business. Global Medical Imaging (GMI) had built up a healthy revenue stream ...READ»
A few years back, I was invited by a design professor to be a guest critic for a student presentation. It's fairly common for design educators to bring in professionals from the outside. It allows for different points of view and ...READ»
My 3-year-old son kept running up to a big boulder in our back yard. He wanted me to chase him; he wanted to play. Two minutes earlier we had a completely different plan in mind – two minutes earlier he was immensely excited about ...READ»
