Almost anybody interested in innovation knows about the Ideo process and the well-famed Ideo shopping cart video shot for ABC. It is indeed a staple for innovation seminars and a renowned example of faultless creativity methodology. In an ABC video,…
Bain ranks management fads and tools. Seen today on my friend Jean François David’s blog (a must-read on IT and organisation), this post on a Bain study related to the appraisal of usage and user satisfaction of today’s most hyped…
Let’s talk about natural language recognition. I am a personal productivity freak. As someone doing business I value my time very much. However, whereas posting articles on this blog for instance may appear as a waste of time to many,…
Steve Jobs isn’t only responsible for launching one of the most fashionable phones in high-tech history, he is also the man to blame for a new disease, iPhone mania. The iPhone generated record sales over the past weekend and even though…
A brand new version of the Orange Business joint innovation whitepaper for business services – which I have co-authored with Jean-François Fava Verde – has just been made available (Whitepaper download). This latest version of the whitepaper was distributed at…
Seen today on Time’s website the expected yet sad announcement of Mr Vonnegut’s death at 84 today, April 24th, 2007. I know that – apparently at least – it hasn’t much to do with innovation, but in fact it does. Vonnegut…
We knew it had been in the works for a while but here we go now, the French economic daily Les Echos, an FT’s subsidiary since 1989, is launching its electronic newspapers today. Earlier versions of such contraptions had already…
On April 23rd, I delivered a course on the marketing of technological innovations to the students of the MIB Dauphine, thanks to the recommendation of Jean François David. Innovation course material for download This MBA is carried out in partnership…
Wikinomics, this linking of people and ideas, is what is really driving innovation in the long run. Howard Rheingold’s vision of ‘the guy in the basement‘ who is the one responsible for innovation is becoming reality. I have attached a…
Here we go again, the mashable social networking news website which originates from the UK is now setting shop on the Continent with clear intentions to take over the world of printed media. This and other initiatives like Italian born Web…
