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Bye Bye Circuit City

January 22, 2009

Quick, which of these TVs is the best one? And how are these poor consumers are supposed to figure out which TV is the right one for them? It’s darn near impossible to know, and often you only realize in hindsight that you bought the wrong one…. Operating in the depths of this quandry, Circuit [...]

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Buckminster Fuller Called for a Design Revolution

July 15, 2008

Over the last 20+ years InnovationLabs has worked with large groups to accelerate and enhance their ability to learn, collaborate, and produce results. This work increases the productivity of the group – often accomplishing weeks, months, or years worth of work in a matter of days.  When we do this work we think of ourselves [...]

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Can you avoid the social network train wreck?

January 13, 2008

John Maloney tipped me to Jay Deragon’s Are We Headed for a Train Wreck? which starts like this : “Today’s social networks are “train cars” of conversations….. The “train cars” are fueled by today’s conversations and they are building speed, momentum and the attention of business. The velocity of these train cars, running on multiple [...]

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The Purpose of a System is What it Does

October 30, 2007

The great cybernetician, Stafford Beer, coined the phrase, “the purpose of a system is what it does.” What we wish it did lies in the realm of visioning and strategy formation. What a system does is expressed in terms of the recurring and onetime outputs, as well as its key processes. So, the purpose of [...]

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The Next Big Economic Challenge?

October 25, 2007

Alan Greenspan’s book has garnered a lot of attention, naturally. The most interesting thing I’ve read about the book so far is a review by Sebastian Mallaby that appeared in the Washington Post National Weekly Edition, October 8-14, 2007. Mallaby writes, “For the past dozen years or so, Greenspan writes, central bankers have had it [...]

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Sustainability and Innovation

October 25, 2007

Sustainability is generally defined as achieving ‘triple bottom line‘ success. Triple bottom line has also been called ‘full cost accounting‘ and when successful shows economic profit, environmental profit and social profit (some people say: People, Planet, Profit as a way to refer to the triple bottom lines of sustainability). A friend of mine used to [...]

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