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Highlights from the Bookshelf

October 7, 2012

Books, great books certainly, are deeply personal.  We spend many hours absorbing the thoughts and ideas of an author, and we get to know them in a unique and intimate way.  There’s nothing like finding a great work, as what could be better than delving into 500 pages of deeply reasoned and well written exploration [...]

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Innovation in Space

August 18, 2012

One of the fields in which innovation is paramount, and constant, is the development of humanity’s capabilities to explore, live, and work in space.  Success in the emerging space economy is now understood to be central to every nation’s terrestrial economic success, and our understanding of what is required to succeed in our space-based scientific [...]

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Learning from Netflix’ Disaster

March 30, 2012

This is a blog post about managing the customer’s experience, a critical component of business model innovation.  For the intro, Netflix will play the role of poster child for how-not-to. United airlines will then step into that role a bit farther down. In Netflix’ case, it looked the company was heading for another brilliant year [...]

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5 Million? No thanks …

December 10, 2011

At the risk of restating the obvious, it would seem that the most notable thing that happened in the world of innovation in 2011, at least as far as the business world is concerned, was the sad death of Steve Jobs. His biography sits at number one on the best seller lists, and when was [...]

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Innovation for the base of the pyramid

December 19, 2010

There are lucrative markets all over the world that companies are vying for, and innovation is playing a role in all of them. The middle class is growing rapidly in India and China now, and millions of people join the global economic engine in these countries each year. But many people who live at the base of the economic pyramid are also seeing more economic opportunities.

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Concept Cards™ – Innovation Tool for Developing Insights

August 14, 2010

In a recent newsletter I wrote about one of the tools we use in innovation consulting engagements to help client teams develop insights. The following short video will introduce you to Concept Cards™ – single frame documents that make complex concepts accessible and usable in the planning process. Imagine having a hundred or several hundred [...]

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