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• Good News for Bad Times

  Amidst all the bad financial news, you may have overlooked a column in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal by Innovation Guru Clayton Christensen. According to him, these times are actually good for innovators. Why would that be, since R & D budgets are... Posted Jan 02 2009, 03:22 PM by Lynda Lawrence with | with no comments (Click to add comments) Filed under: Innovation, Future, Ideation

• Do Innovation Prizes Work?

  In Business Week’s Innovation supplement dated November 20, Steve LeVine offers a summary of innovation prizes for everything from space travel and hydrogen-fueled vehicles to faster airport checkpoints. Citing Peter Diamandis, who sponsored the X prize... Posted Jan 02 2009, 03:10 PM by Lynda Lawrence with | with no comments (Click to add comments) Filed under: Innovation, Future, Ideation

• Design Innovation & Research Conference

  Why on earth is this fellow driving on the highway with a metal helmet blocking his view? Why is mythology important to the launch of the world’s least expensive car? What do consumers mean by “green” behavior? What do different family members want from... Posted Jan 02 2009, 02:59 PM by Lynda Lawrence with | with no comments (Click to add comments) Filed under: Innovation, Strategy/Vision, Future, Renewable Energy, Technology

• Design: Ideas vs. Implementation

  Preparing for the class I teach with Alladi Venkatesh on Design and Innovation Management, I’ve been reading the Henry Dreyfuss classic, Designing for People, published in 1955. From the thirties to the sixties, he designed everything from flyswatters... Posted Jul 28 2008, 09:46 PM by Lynda Lawrence with | with no comments (Click to add comments) Filed under: Innovation, Future, Consumer Products, Ideation

• Can Scarcity Become The New Mother of Invention?

  Sunday’s New York Times had an article by G. Pascal Zachary titled “Inside Nairobi, The Next Palo Alto” . The author points out that most technological innovation is created either in wealthy countries or in China and India. Yet, the rest of the world... Posted Jul 21 2008, 02:43 PM by Mike Mata with | with no comments (Click to add comments) Filed under: Strategy/Vision, Future, Ideation

• Exactly Where Does Creativity Come From?

  Over the last few years, functional MRI testing has given researchers the ability to see inside the brain in real time. Now, according to this month’s Scientific American Mind, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have used jazz pianists to... Posted Jun 11 2008, 11:53 AM by Lynda Lawrence with | with no comments (Click to add comments) Filed under: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Strategy/Vision, Leadership Style, Future, Methodology, Organization/Staffing, Ideation

• “The Most Innovative Small Business in America”

  “The customer is the company. Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month – with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force, and no retail distribution. And it has never produced a flop.” The above title and quote is from the current... Posted Jun 03 2008, 05:22 PM by Mike Mata with | with no comments (Click to add comments) Filed under: Strategy/Vision, Future, Methodology, Consumer Products, Organization/Staffing, Ideation

• Insights from the World Innovation Forum

  I just returned from the World Innovation Forum in New York, where hundreds of business people and academics gathered to hear the experts in the field. MacArthur Genius Award winner Amory Lovins told us how to reduce reliance on oil through eliminating... Posted Apr 30 2008, 07:49 PM by Lynda Lawrence with | with no comments (Click to add comments) Filed under: Strategy/Vision, Leadership Style, Future