October 11, 2015 Design is on everyone’s mind – has been for a while, and it is heartening to see that it continues to be so. While we know all the big names in design, those who like IDEO made it a household term, we now see others such as IT services companies of the Read more
2014 The widespread interest in innovation is also combined with a sense of frustration. Many studies show that the success rate for innovation initiatives is not very high. Umair Hoque recently conducted an interesting experiment on Fast Company. He asked readers to complete the sentence – “Innovation Fails because…..” Many people responded and continue to Read more
2014 I was just looking at a Fast Company article on the new Ditto – a device with the form factor perhaps of a tie clip, that buzzes, kind of in synch with your phone. My first thought was – yet another! How many such devices will there be a place for on our persons? Read more
July 24, 2014 This is a very short take on what I think is the essence of digital innovation: We can now instrument ever smaller parts of the world, make trapped facets and attributes of this world fluid, autonomous, smarter and sometimes even intelligent. We can interconnect our world for meaningful communications, transactions and commerce, Read more
July 24, 2014 Over the years as I have thought about strategic foresight, I have often coupled the idea with the notion of latency. To me latency implied the time it took for an enterprise to respond to a contextual shift or event. Built into that idea was the notion that the concept of latency Read more
May 29, 2014 I work out of the Cambridge Innovation Center, one of the supposedly largest such places in the world with over 400 startups and early-stage technology companies that collectively claim a couple of billion dollars in funding. The core idea of such a place is that not only does it make the startup Read more
2014 There has been disappointing news in the entrepreneurial / new venture world in recent weeks. Recent studies by the Economist showed a decline in new ventures and entrepreneurial activity in the US and this article by James Surowiecki in The New Yorker, tries to analyze the phenomena of large scale failure among startups. Start Read more
2014 One of the mainfestations of the rapid acceleration and change we are facing these days is that business ideas and concepts become invalid more frequently than ever before. Strategic innovation is precisely focused on this issue and could also be termed “Business Concept Innovation”. As one deconstructs the existing business concept and reinvents it Read more
April 7, 2014 A recent article on cnet discusses Steve Job’s intention to lock-in customers into the Apple Ecosystem. Steve Jobs Based on Richard Normann’s work described in his book “Reframing Business“, I have been thinking about the emerging importance of innovating ecosystems of value, reconceiving offerings and value-creation as dynamic processes within living systems. Read more
February 5, 2014 There is much anticipation and excitement around a possible iWatch from Apple. iWatch and other Wearables This Fast Company article adds several interesting dimensions to the debate, such as privacy, data security, etc, and whether Apple will become a platform provider for others to build applications on. Interesting also is the huge Read more