Why You Won’t Get Breakthrough Innovation by Being Nice
Simon Rucker, hbr.orgIf you want to create a really transformational innovation, you’d better be in an organization that’s designed to support, not merely tolerate, someone as challenging as Steve Jobs. Otherwise forget it.
“No Simon,” I know many of you are thinkin…
How GM Is Saving Cash Using Legos As A Data Viz Tool
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.comUsing Legos to visualize production problems, GM can better see how big the issues are and where they fit in the grand scheme.
Most data we study is presented in 2-D. And as clear as a pie or line graph can be, it’s still a once-removed…
4 Problems Google Glasses Have To Solve Before Becoming A Hit
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.comGoogle is planning to augment reality, and it’s a design problem that will require more than mere algorithms to solve.
Google has never been a design-forward company, revolutionizing our lives through interface design. Instead, they’ve…
Polly LaBarre, hbr.org
In the few years since the financial crisis of 2008 hit us where it hurts, the calls for the “end of capitalism” have rung out from the streets and halls of power alike. We’ve witnessed a lot of hand-wringing and high-level conversation, and some…
Capitalism is adaptive which is why it will continue to exist
Inside Amazon’s Idea Machine: How Bezos Decodes The Customer
George Anders, forbes.comFeisty debates over what metrics to watch are Amazon’s way of life. “There’s an incredible amount of challenging the other person,” says Manfred Bluemel, a former senior market researcher at Amazon. “You want to have absolute certainty…
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BY KIT EATON, fastcompany.comAccording to a new survey from research consultancy KAE, about 10% of U.K. and U.S. citizens questioned would actually lodge their precious money with Apple, were the firm to spend some of its $100 billion in cash to build an iBank.…
Innovation Is About Arguing, Not Brainstorming. Here’s How To Argue Productively
By Daniel Sobol, fastcodesign.comAt Continuum, innovation’s secret sauce is deliberative discourse. Here’s how you do it.
Turns out that brainstorming—that go-to approach to generating new ideas since the 1940s—isn’t the golden ticket to innovation after all. Both Jona…
What If We Put A School Atop Every Building In Manhattan?
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.comA bold concept to reinvent the way we think about schools.
It goes without saying that education is underfunded. But if we already know this—and most of us probably agree on the point—why does nothing change?
Maybe the educationa…
Neat idea if it went beyond conceptual and harnessed high human capital work environments.
I shot this short film covering the farm equipment auction of Mary Clare’s grandfather (George Byron) in 2008.
Short fashion bit can explain the problems of harnessing young and innovative talent in any industry
