Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 5, 2011

If your clients are not yet asking you to design transitions, they will likely do that on your next project. Transitions are hot, and not just because they entertain the eye. In confined mobile computing interfaces, on tablet devices or in complex virtual environments, transitions are an authentic, minimalist way of enabling way-finding, displaying system state and exposing crucial functionality – in short, they are key in creating a superior user experience.

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Bill Fischer

JUNE 28, 2011

Image via Wikipedia 2011 is the 100th anniversary of a really bad idea. In 1911, the British Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s determination to learn less, rather than more -- about life, clothing and diet in extreme cold conditions -- led to his assuming that he was smarter than thousands of [.

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Bennett Cherry

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It's been a few days now since Steve Jobs passed away and his legacy continues to occupy my thoughts throughout my week. I recently watched the video of his memorial service from Apple's Cupertino campus and wanted to share a few items with you, in the hopes that you'll be encouraged by this.The service began with a moving introduction from Apple CEO, Tim Cook.

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Innovation 360

AUGUST 4, 2011

Social Innovation and sustainable thinking is emerging, business leaders shifting focus using social and sustainable thinking sharpening their competitive advantages. Interested reading more? Have a look at our new trend watch at [link]. The post Buy 10,000 green mil and get an Audi for free appeared first on Home of Innovation.

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Speaker: Jady West, VP of Hospitality & Chris Bennett, Head of Sales & Engineering

The modern hotel room is no longer just a place to stay—it’s an experience to remember. Today’s guests expect seamless connectivity, personalized comfort, and high-tech convenience. From AI-powered smart room controls to keyless entry, in-room entertainment, and app-based services, technology is redefining hospitality from the inside out. In this new session featuring industry pros Jady West and Chris Bennett, we’ll explore how high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity powers the innovations that

Innovation

Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2011

Over the last year the key topics within the world of innovations has been impacted by social responsibility and sustainability aspects, which can be seen by analyzing the last 12 months of Google searching using Google Insights for Search. The top area of interest over the last 12 month has been. business innovation. open innovation. innovation management. technology innovation. social innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I recently got back from a month's vacation — the longest I've ever taken, and a shocking indulgence for an American. (Earlier this summer, I was still fretting about how to pull off two weeks unplugged.) The distance, though, helped me hone in on what's actually important to my professional career — and which make-work activities merely provide the illusion of progress.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Did you ever get bounced around between departments when interacting with a company or service? This happened to me recently with my credit card: the card issuer and the bank backing it seemed to disagree who was responsible for my problem. Each blamed the other. I got caught in the middle. My communication with them also crossed multiple channels. For some things I used their website, for others I had to call.

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Bill Fischer

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Amundsen and his team at the South Pole; Image via Wikipedia On December 14, 1911, one hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen, and a small team of four others, accomplished what no one else had ever done before: they reached the South Pole. At the time, this was truly terra incognito: one [.

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Leadership 45

Bill Fischer

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Innovation is all about creating "the new", but if you hang around innovators long enough you begin to get the feeling that while lots of "new" things are being brought to market, innovators continue to use "old" approaches to do this! Recently, however, Arthur D. Little published a study on [.

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Bill Fischer

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Vincent Van Gogh, "The Sower," 1888. Image via Wikipedia Innovators all! That should be a natural, legitimate, goal for all organizations, but earlier this month, when I asked thirty-five senior managers from a well-known, successful, European consumer goods company "how many of them had innovation responsibilities?" the response was less than 20%. [.

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Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant

AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.

Marketing

Bill Fischer

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Star Model Choices for IDEO's Innovative Culture Everyone wants to be innovative; most fail! In fact, I can't remember when any organization last came to IMD and pronounced themselves as being innovation indifferent; yet, the sad truth is that while everyone dreams of becoming Apple, most linger in the [.

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Culture Innovation 40

Bill Fischer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Replacing the boss in any organization is more often than not a source of great anxiety for all stakeholders involved. And, in fact, the "bigger" the boss -- the more visible, more iconic (or even the more iconoclastic) -- the greater the risks envisioned. Over the past few weeks, we've [.

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Bill Fischer

AUGUST 29, 2011

Among the leadership traits which have made Steve Jobs so effective as an innovator has been the ability to create an inspiring vision for talented people to work towards and then get out of their way so that they could make full-use of their talents in pursuit of this vision. [.].

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Innovation Leadership 40

Bill Fischer

AUGUST 29, 2011

Amidst all of the well-deserved praise for what Steve Jobs accomplished in his all two brief stints as CEO of Apple, thereshouldalso bea search for lessons that might be applied elsewhere: what made Apple so extraordinarily successful? And, should we/could wedo it in our industry? If we define strategy [.].

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Bill Fischer

AUGUST 22, 2011

This year marks the 180th anniversary of the sailing of the Beagle , and the beginning of a dramatic revolution in our understanding of life's origins and the world around us. Charles Darwin, the ultimate hero in all of this, was only twenty-two years old when the Beagle set sail. [.].

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Bill Fischer

AUGUST 1, 2011

At risk of being lost in the collective sigh of relief that is accompanying Washington's apparent settlement of the debt-ceiling crisis, there are a number of significant decision-making lessons crying-out to be heard by leaders from all walks of life. Most important of these is that what we have just [.].

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Leadership 40

Bill Fischer

JULY 26, 2011

China's journey from a seriously poor, autarkic, economy to the "shop floor of the world," took a bit more than two decades. Today, less than a decade later, it appears poised to evolve into becoming a leading global innovator; but can China actually make this next great leap forward? Many observers [.].

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Innovation 40

Bill Fischer

JUNE 23, 2011

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.That sucks." So says28-year-old Cloudera founder, early Facebook veteranand one of Bloomberg BusinessWeek's "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs" in 2010, Jeff Hammerbacher, in a refreshing insight about the present state of innovation. In fact,if we're honest [.].

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Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

Generative AI

Bill Fischer

JUNE 4, 2011

Among the "Seven misconceptions" regarding innovation that PwC's 1200 worldwide CEOs identified, there are five that are particularly important : Innovation can be delegated. Not so. The drive to innovate begins at the top. If the CEO doesn't protect and reward the process, it will fail. So many CEOs either "don't [.

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Innovation 40

Bill Fischer

JUNE 3, 2011

Ready, Fire, Aim! This is the story of my life; at least when I'm lucky. Otherwise, it's more like Fire, Fire, Fire, or occasionally Ready, Ready, Ready. Week after week I am in executive education classrooms, in the company of bright, ambitious, energetic and successful corporate leaders, who want to [.].

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Bill Fischer

MAY 27, 2011

Made in China: What does it mean to you? Low costs? Fast response? Good enough quality? Would you believe me if I told you that “being the smarter competitor” was becoming the objective of a number of aspiring Chinese global players? Not so long ago, I was speaking with a European [.].

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Bennett Cherry

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Oh, yes, I now remember that Necessity is the Mother of Invention. Sorry, Plato, I had to borrow your quote here as I was reminded today by a former student that simple innovations are often the best innovations. See for yourself by watching this short video.

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Innovation

Innovation 360

JULY 7, 2011

Joseph Schumpeter , the guru of innovation, addressed the process of innovation with his theory of creative destruction and his definition of entrepreneurs as people who combined existing elements in new ways to create a new product or service. Social innovation is a new potential megatrend, however with roots back in the 60’s and related to strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that meet social needs such as working conditions, education, community development and health that exte

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Innovation 360

JUNE 5, 2011

Last Friday we could read an interesting blog post by Scott Anthony. It was about four typical innovation pitfalls. Great article , and I like to comment upon it. The first lie is that you can trust the feedback when asking customers, and instead go for what they do today or if they are ready to spend some money on a new idea (on an early stage). This is a very useful way of verifying the real need and according to my experience also to be combined with testing the market with different versions

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 25, 2011

It is a lot of buzz about green innovations and much talk about potential green washing. And we have seen it all before with pink washing and white washing. To understand whether green innovation is washing or not the question to ask is why it exists. To cover up? To gain short term winnings? To move the focus away from other issues? Or is it possible that it really might exist a long term market opportunity here?

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Innovation 360

MAY 14, 2011

That was the theme a few days back at 2010 Angel Capital Association Summit in San Francisco and the title of the speech by angel investor and blogger Basil Peters , who asserted that VCs are essentially dinosaurs saddled with too-big funds at a time when entrepreneurs can create companies cheaply and quickly, sometimes over a weekend. What these start-ups need is a limited amount of outside capital provided by angel investors who know when to exit by selling to corporations hungry for dynami

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Innovation 360

MAY 6, 2011

Innovation is a way of getting competitive advantage which is well known and documented since ancient times, ranging from machinery, war equipment to the beauty industry and all trial building the perpetuum mobile. What´s happened lately is the paradigm shift of opening up the innovation process from being secret and closed towards inviting for collective wisdom and creativity.

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Innovation 360

MAY 6, 2011

Innovation is a way of getting competitive advantage which is well known and documented since ancient times, ranging from machinery, war equipment to the beauty industry and all trial building the perpetuum mobile. What´s happened lately is the paradigm shift of opening up the innovation process from being secret and closed towards inviting for collective wisdom and creativity.

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Innovation 360

APRIL 19, 2011

In a recently report Gartner state that games will be used to drive innovations, an old phenomenon but interesting. One of the most interesting stories is about how LEGO made an amazing turnaround some years back, and in the new spirit started to invited their customers to design and customize their own LEGO via Internet. And not just that, they also released a complete new highly interactive and flexible platform Mindstorm encouraging customers to design and develop their own LEGO-robots.

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Innovation 360

MARCH 31, 2011

As we speak there is a new trend rising providing us with opportunities or threats, depending on what side of the fence you are mentally located. Let’s first back the tape a bit. Take a moment and ask yourself “why are people launching apps on Android and iTunes in numbers close to impossible to believe”? Is it to give away apps for free making the world a better place?

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