Double delivery
When IDEO co-founder Tom Kelley answered audience questions at his recent talk, several audience members asked “How do you get the boss, and corporate types, to listen to you
Must innovation be socially acceptable?
[blockquote cite=”—Tim Brown, president and CEO ” citeLink=”http://www.ideo.com/about/”]Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that dr
Invention or Innovation?
If you sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo is that innovation? Webster defines innvoation as — 1: the introduction of something new or 2: a new idea, method, or device
Comedic Computer Scientists?
Perhaps its an oxymoron, to think a computer scientist can be funny. Well it seems, in the database world they do have a sense of humor. Let me explain. Since its beginnings in t
Harpooning Big Data
Slaying the white whale on a stormy sea of big data, for most companies is like the fictional story of Captain Ahab’s Moby Dick. The term Big Data has suddenly become en vo
Creativity drives economic growth.
To say, I heard Ideo’s co-founder Tom Kelley recently speak on “The Art of Innovation” minimizes the gift of insight he shared, and over the next few blog posts
Insights into Collaboration
[dropcap2]C[/dropcap2]ollaboration is simultaneously man’s greatest achievement and our biggest mystery. Our ability to collaborate, to build roads, economies, smart phones,
Networks – Do you have a spiders view or a global view?
[dropcap2]M[/dropcap2]y wife recently forwarded me an article “Databases Offer Opportunity To Weed Out Retail Job Applicants Who Are Theft Risks” from her daily news.
Technology Technology everywhere and not a drop to drink
Go ahead pull out your phone – it doesn’t matter if its a smart phone or the original 2-pound Motorola brick. Explain to your friend how the cell phone works. Some of y
Social Networks: Does size matter?
Everywhere you look there’s a social network. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, garner the most attention. People hype size. Internet pundits, marketers an