- Why Great Innovators Spend Less Than Good Ones
Source: Harvard Business
Date: Nov 04, 2009
Be frugal with financial resources but generous with human resources. What holds disruptive innovation back in most organizations isn't a lack of money. It is a lack of committed people, a surplus of inappropriate mindsets, and a whole series of standard operating procedures that run counter to the fast-cycle decision making, in-market learning, and iterative approach to strategy required for disruption.
- Innovation should be intentional
Source: Startup2Startup
Date: Apr 21, 2009
Video of Jeffrey Veen at February's Startup2Startup's event talking about how good design for web apps, and in particular for startups is about designing with intention.
- Software Innovation Strategies
Source: SandHill
Date: Apr 10, 2009
The same engineers who were at the cutting edge when building the product start to fall behind because their very success keeps them busy enhancing the existing product, but no longer innovating.
- How to Think Outside the Box
Source: BusinessWeek
Date: Mar 30, 2009
Our lack of attention to place, time, function, and human considerations means these fancy new technologies fail to deliver their real potential to real people.
- Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech
Source: TED
Date: Mar 11, 2009
This demo from MIT, was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.
- Design is in the details
Source: TED
Date: Feb 10, 2009
British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems.
- Radical Service Innovation
Source: BusinessWeek
Date: Oct 20, 2008
To compete in the marketplace and maintain relevancy, service companies need to innovate constantly. But while there is a desire to innovate, actually getting new services to market is rare, and what we call radical innovation—new services that dramatically change the marketplace—is even rarer.
- David Kelley: The future of design is human-centered
Source: TED
Date: Sep 09, 2008
IDEO’s David Kelley says that product design has become much less about the hardware and more about the user experience.