We have all seen companies that are constantly pushing to re-invent themselves based on what the competition is doing, or who spend too much time benchmarking their own efforts. Over at Harvard Business Online, Erich Joachimsthaler suggests that if the companies expended their resources studying the…
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Performance Chart: Your Company, Product, Life
I love tools that are simple to use, easy to learn, but offer profound impact. The performance chart is one of those tools. They consists of a group of continua (left-to-right axis) where you plot “where you are” versus “where you want to be.”
This can be helpful to create a visual report card for…
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‘iBoard of Directors’ Solves Your Business Challenges
When faced with a challenge you need help to resolve, consult your board of directors. No, not your corporate governance… your Imaginary Board of Directors – your iBoard of Directors.
Your iBoard is your collection of business leaders, role models, and personal heroes who inspire and challenge y…
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Remove Idea-Blocking Obstacles with Conducivity
As marketers and business people, our time is spent coming up with creative ideas, problem solving, and decision making. With focus, concentration and inspiration, we are better and faster at these applied thinking skills.
Your boss just let you know – due in 48 hours – is the “big idea” that will…
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Liddle Explores a New Market for Plastic Waste
Briton Richard Liddle is taking on the huge problem of plastic waste in his country, and the impact of his efforts is creating a ripple effect –not only in Britain, but around the world. In a terrific Business Week article entitled Richard Liddle’s War on Plastic, the sustainable designer explains…
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You May Be Wrecking Your Own Innovation
Innovative ideas – the kind that can transform your company – are inadvertently being demolished. When first presented, many ideas meet wrecking-ball comments such as…
“How’s that going to work?”
“Good luck getting that done!”
“We don’t have time for something like that.” And the classic,
“Doesn’t…
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The New Design Culture at P&G
A noteworthy article appeared in the June issue of Shelf Impact, an influential online e-zine. The article, P&G Exec: Design’s strategic value is vital to innovation, features excerpts from a keynote speech given by Claudia Kotchka, Procter & Gamble’s Vice President of Design Innovation & Strategy…
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It Starts with a Question
Wouldn’t it be cool if…? With that question leading the way, 18-year-old Ben Kaufman founded Mophie, named for his two dogs, in 2005. The goal: To create a “funky product development firm based around good people and great ideas.” Today, Mophie products are in 28 countries worldwide, at Apple…
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Pursuit Of The Authentic
A Jackson Pollock painting is auctioned and sold in November 2006 for $140m. Michael Graves’ teakettle 9093 sells briskly for $145, while its limited edition predecessor sells for $25,000. Al Yeganeh’s seafood soup sells for $30 a quart. What gives and what do all these examples have in common…?
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