I love my iPhone. It’s becoming an extension that I count on constantly through the day, from firing up email and Twitter as I roll out of bed to checking amusement park hours or showing my kids flying lemur video as we’re reading the encyclopedia article on Mammals. It’s both a conduit to a wider [...]

I’ve been thinking about writing, conference presentations, etc. and realized that the articles, books, and talks that I enjoy the most have a rhythm that blends Concept, Story, and Method (Dave Gray might suggest Visual as a fourth tinker toy; I’m on the fence there). So with those building blocks, then you can start to [...]

Interviewed by Bloomberg TV, P&G CEO A.G. Lafley discusses how Procter & Gamble is accelerating their innovation investment during the current downturn in order to increase their growth and improve their market position.

So Adam Richardson and I had a chance to chat for about 45 minutes last month. Instead of waiting until I can edit it down or transcribe the conversation, here’s a link to the complete mp3 file. (39mb until I figure out better compression utility). It was a fascinating conversation, and we covered a range [...]

So, I.D. magazine published this trolling article, and I can’t resist linking to Down with Innovation, precisely because it (unintentionally) makes so many of my points about business fluency for me. I sympathize that design thinking is getting a lot of attention the business press, leaving design doing without the love it deserves. But this [...]

When Bruce Nussbaum called out the iPhone platform as a pillar to fight recession, and then defended his selection by pointing to Kleiner Perkin’s iFund, he committed a classic error in assessing innovation opportunity: he focused on the elephant, and overlooked the ant. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to visit with an elephant, they [...]

I like Bruce Nussbaum a lot. He’s a huge proponent of business and design, and I think that he’s done a lot to get corporate America to recognize the value of innovation and design (thinking and doing). Maybe because I admire his efforts so much, I have a hard time when he calls out the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]