The Next Big Economic Challenge?
Alan Greenspan's book has garnered a lot of attention, naturally.The most interesting thing I've read about the book so far is a review by Sebastian Mallaby that appeared in the…
Sustainability and Innovation
Sustainability is generally defined as achieving 'triple bottom line' success. Triple bottom line has also been called 'full cost accounting' and when successful shows economic profit, environmental profit and social…
How Dell Plans to Beat Apple
At a meeting a couple weeks ago, the new Dell marketing officer Mark Jarvis is quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle as saying that he wants Dell to become as…
Made By China
In addition the scandals around lead paint and poisonous dog food there is another important trend happening in Chinese manufacturing, and this one might be more enduring. People throughout China…
Raydiance,Wikinomics principles in action
Not just because Scott, who is pictured above, is Dave Davison's son and the President of Raydiance, the story is a great multimedia read about the innovative technology of ultrashort…
The Open Sourced Car
Here's a very interesting application of opensource technology - the open sourced car.Here's a brief description from an eNewsletter I get called Innovation:OPEN SOURCE CAR Automobile enthusiast Markus Merz is…
An Interesting Microsoft Product
Microsoft just announced a new "coffee-table" PC called "Surface" - that is an actual coffee table. The table top is a screen that is touch sensitive and also responds to…
How To Save Time
Innovation consultant and TRIZ expert Jack Hipple recently sent me a great presentation called "How Are You Going to Survive as an Innovation Champion?," which he delivered in 2004 at…
Innovation in Community (Bookshelf Part 2)
Many of us imagine that innovation happens because of solitary geniuses - the mythic images of Edison, Ford, or Einstein toiling in isolation are modern icons. The truth is often…
The King Is Dead; Long Live the King
The King Is DeadA muffled sigh of grief can be heard emanating from Detroit, as after 76 years as the world's #1 carmaker, GM has lost its crown to Toyota.…