Today is my birthday, and as someone of a certain age (let’s just say I’m smack in the middle of the baby boom era), I began wondering: Do I have more chance for innovative thinking and accomplishments in the future than in the past? A lot of people might say your best hope for innovation [...]
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The “Age” of Innovation
Challenging Orthodoxies to Create Innovation
I’ve been writing for awhile about several key distinctions when it comes to innovation including: Invention versus Innovation Instinctual Innovation versus Intellectual Innovation The importance of Insights versus Ideas Digging a little deeper into the importance of insights versus ideas, I just have to say that far too often people put too much attention on [...]
Creativity in a Can: IdeaPaint Extends Innovative Thinking Beyond the Whiteboard
As undergraduate students at Babson College in Massachusetts, John Goscha, Jeff Avallon and Morgen Newman were mid-brainstorm when they began to feel their ideas were constrained by the borders of their small whiteboard. Frustrated by the lack of affordable, large whiteboard options, they looked into painting their walls with dry-erase paint. When they learned that [...]
If at First You Don’t Succeed … Try Recording a Funeral
The fam and I recently took our annual trip to Memphis … this year the main attraction was watching the St. Louis Cardinals take on the AAA Memphis Redbirds. While in town, we finally got around to taking a tour of Sun Studio (I’ve been meaning to do this for years), where legendary record producer [...]
The Web of Innovation
Three years ago this month, The Economist magazine produced a special report examining the impact of new media that concluded, “Society is in the early phases of what appears to be a media revolution on the scale launched by Gutenberg in 1448 … The era of mass media is giving way to one of personal [...]
Know Your Innovator
I’ve known Ideo for many years and visited them on occasion in their Palo Alto headquarters where I had a chance to meet with David Kelley, the founder of Ideo. That day he was developing a curriculum for the d.school, better known as the Institute of Design at Stanford. Since their early days as product [...]
Keep Coming Back … We’ve Got Something New for You!
I am fortunate to live in a culturally opportunistic area of the country. The Washington, D.C., metro area is home to hundreds of museums, theatres, historical sites and universities which enrich the landscape of my brain. For several years, I have had season tickets to Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre. I like having season tickets, as I [...]
Twitter: An Artesian Well for New Ideas
Did you ever think of Twitter as an artesian well for new ideas? I do. I am continually surprised with the volume of creative nuggets that the Twitter network digs up and spreads. And since Twitter is still a little ahead of the rest of the world in revealing trends and “cool stuff,” it’s a [...]
The DTV Communication Confusion
As America begins the transition to digital television (DTV), I find myself thinking about the communications process of innovation more and more. DTV brings with it a chance for more channels, better picture and sound quality, and unfortunately for some, plenty of headaches for those with old school televisions. The transition to DTV has been [...]
Social Innovation
A lot of people may think innovation means advances in technology. In fact, digital technology itself is one of the greatest innovation of our lifetime. It allows ideas to be generated and shared at a remarkable pace. It enables people to collaborate and act on ideas as never before. This democratization enables people to implement [...]