Browse by Tags
All Tags » Future ( RSS)
-
|
Business Week’s Top 50 Best Performing Companies from the S&P 500, as you might expect, has some pretty sobering news. Because it’s figured on a three-year average, some of the companies that made the list are now going through layoffs, reduced earnings...
|
-
|
“Off and on” over the last couple of weeks I have been filling in my free time viewing inspiring talks from the annual TED Conference on the web. The presentations are less than 20 minutes long and cover the wide range of topics which have been delivered...
|
-
|
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...
|
-
|
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...
|
-
|
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...
|
-
|
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...
|
-
|
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...
|
-
|
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...
|
-
|
“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...
|
-
|
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...
|
More Posts « Previous page
|
|