I have for a long time believed in the integrated new product development (iNPD) model Jonathan Cagan and Craig Vogel present in “Creating Breakthrough Products.” This model shatters traditional functional silos in favour of a balanced integration between the design, engineering and marketing disciplines. This integration results in products of higher value, and […]

Its hard to really know for sure if this is true viable, it is a fascinating new approach to air travel from a purely technological perspective. While this may not the perfect solution, we need a lot more thinking like this in aviation, healthcare, government, everywhere.

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In my effort to ripoff myself, I thought I’d start by outlining what i mean by innovation and other related terms.
My working definition of innovation refers to a capitalization on new business opportunities through new products, services, processes or experiences (collectively referred to simply as product hereafter). New ideas that cannot be tied to […]

Back in grad school I was one of Richard Florida’s students as he was discovering the connections and correlations between various metrics of diversity and economic productivity. His conclusion was diversity and social tolerance has a consistent measurable and predictable positive economic effect. In other words, diversity pays.
He goes on to point out how […]

I’ve never been a fan of “what’s hot, what’s not” lists. However CNN money has a very interesting article about how the Jack Welch business dogma may be working its way over to the “not” list.
Now I will admit that Welch has probably forgotten more about running a business just this week than […]

Supply side economics, a term coined by Jude Winniski, is a macro-economic perspective that (and forgive my gross oversimplification) revives a Frankenstien version of classical economics together with Say’s law. Classical economics is the period and school of economic thought ushered in the 18th century by Adam Smith in part as a rebuttal against […]

This week’s Monday Morning Must Read catalyzed a lot of stuff I had been reading and thinking related to innovation and China. I’m going to make a little prediction (the good thing about dramatic prognostication is that if you’re right you get you say I told you so, but if you’re wrong no one […]

Recently I’ve been cleaning out my file drawers and closets, going though a lot of old material I haven’t seen or thought about in some time. Some work I had collected on TRIZ (a Russian innovation methodology) struck me with its connection to my “Remote Associations” post back in early February. Just as […]

A while back on cph127 Adam Richardson of frog raised the issue of wicked problems. I’m really glad he brought it up because I’ve always felt they are central to design as a professional practice. Curiously though there isn’t much talk in design circles about them.
In “Making Use,” John Carroll offers […]

In thier paper on pull as a new model for mobilzing resources “From Push to Pull – Emerging Models for Mobilizing Resources” John Brown and John Hagel quote William Gibson saying “the future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” Quite true. In terms of pull models the movie business has done […]