Manuel Saez picks up on the Designer as CEO meme on the FC Blog. And positively, he doesn’t just focus on whether Jonathan Ive would be good for Apple - he looks at the bigger picture and asks if designers *in general* should sit in the C-suites. That’s an important distinction - it separates individual […]

So I just got off the phone with our Telus installer, who was able to walk me through the incantations needed to reconnect Shaw analog cable. Thanks Wade! So for now, we’ll stay with DSL and see how things work out.

The triple play means providing customers with voice, video, and data (or phone, tv, and internet if you prefer). This week, I had a hands-on experience that made me shake my head.
I switched TV providers, from my local cable company to my local phone company, based on a sweetheart deal to move to digital […]

Two days ago I suggested that Bruce Nussbaum’s Davos panel was too focused on product, and didn’t recognize service and ecosystem innovation enough, particularly financial innovations that have led to our subprime woes.
With that in mind, I thought it was excellent that Bruce shared his observation yesterday that the biggest innovations discussed at Davos are […]

Bruce Nussbaum and various innovation luminaries will be offering a panel at Davos this year discussing the best innovations of 2007. Sadly, the conversation seems to be focused on products (with a couple exceptions).
I would suggest that ecosystems and platforms point to the best innovations in 2007, or any given year…

Amazon had a big […]