15 days ago
Cameron Moll : Divide - The second of three must-reads: Divide. "The idea of design divorced from engineering is laudable, but the way it so often plays out makes it implausible. Yes, in theory, the design team should come up with a perfect solution and the engineering team shou
veen : Big Contrarian → Divide. - "Teams must collaborate throughout the project. Designers challenging engineers to at least try their idea. Engineers reminding designers that the supply of time and money being finite, choices have to be made. The two together defining more perfect
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Idea nodes & innovation - Ogle asks us to think spaces, not places, and to return to Kevin Kelly for answers. Breakthrough creativity comes about when the idea-spaces think for you.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Finally, a car that runs on water! - "Energy made from water," as Hirasawa says, "is not a dream story anymore We hope many people will join us in our challenge to promote the use of our WES, for the better future of the earth," he added in a statement.
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4 month ago
Linkorama : At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends - And that’s it. Lots of mobile phone predictions. Green energy. Water. And more phones.
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4 month ago
veen : Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - GigaOM - “imagination-based companies to succeed in the long run, making money can’t be the focus.”
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Bezos on innovation, customer-focus and long-term thinking - Companies get skills-focused, instead of customer-needs focused. When [companies] think about extending their business into some new area, the first question is "why should we do that—we don't have any skills in that area."
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Legitimised? - “Social interaction often precedes economic activity.”
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5 month ago
Linkorama : The only revolutionary that didn't sell out? - Why isn't there another Google?: Because every company that had the potential to be economically revolutionary over the last five years sold out long before it ever had the chance to revolutionize anything economically.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : 11 innovation lessons from creators of World of Warcraft - Blizzard Entertainment, the envy of the computer game industry, has learned 11 lessons on innovation that can help almost any business.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Wiki ROI - How do you factor in those moments of serendipity, where three people via their posts to a wiki realise there is a new way of doing things, a new product, a new channel, a new business partner which could fundamentally change the future of an organisation
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6 month ago
veen : How Fast Can This Thing Go, Anyway? - Inc. Magazine - "Zipcar was a classic founder-run company--long on passion, short on cash. Until a new CEO came aboard, gave the business a seven-step tune-up, and put the pedal to the metal."
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Shift Happens – The Future of Advertising - Advertising is a case in point. Seismic shifts are shaking up the world of advertising big time. But which shift is most relevant? And what are the implications for executives?
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Linkorama : Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - Over the past decade, however, a different sort of free has emerged. The new model is based not on cross-subsidies — the shifting of costs from one product to another — but on the fact that the cost of products themselves is falling fast.
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veen : Building the Perfect Laptop - "We encourage [the designers] to design something that's not too real. If they stick to superreality, nothing will be fun, nothing will be new."
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6 month ago
Linkorama : What to understand about new products and startups - What is the humble approach to product design? Pay attention. Notice which things are working and which aren't.
veen : Paul Buchheit: The most important thing to understand about new products and startups - Be humble. Pay attention.
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Yahoo Deal Is Big, but Is It the Next Big Thing? - Ultimately, Microsoft’s challenge in making its new acquisition work will be a cultural one. Can the giant software maker — which, incidentally, is based in Redmond, Wash., about 850 miles from Silicon Valley — use a huge acquisition to tap into wha
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7 month ago
WillPate : Canada Needs to Realize The Technology Business is a Race | StartupNorth
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike - This so-called curse of knowledge, a phrase used in a 1989 paper in The Journal of Political Economy, means that once you’ve become an expert in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do.
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8 month ago
WillPate : Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Technology in 2008 | Economist.com - Surfing slows, detaches and opens
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8 month ago
Linkorama : The accidental innovator - Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Twitter, epitomises Silicon Valley's right brain
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Will it fly? - I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that.
Andy Baio : Ev's guide to evaluating new product ideas - for me, "personally compelling" is the only one that matters, since I can't build something I won't use myself
WillPate : Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
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11 month ago
deusx : IT Conversations: Jeff Bonforte - "instead of a description of what he calls Telephone 3.0, he delivers an entertaining and typically forthright argument in favor of anger and its power to drive innovation."
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12 month ago
plasticbag : Bruce Nussbaum says, "CEOs Must Be Designers, Not Just Hire Them" and I think he's right. The problem-solving, find a user need and fill it as close to perfectly as you can is where the future is, particularly in technology... - "In today’s global marketplace, [the key skills are being] able to understand the consumer, prototype possible new products, services and experiences, quickly filter the good, the bad and the ugly and deliver them to people who want them..."
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13 month ago
Linkorama : It’s not about creativity, it’s about curiosity - I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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