Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Archive for July, 2010
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Momentum for heirloom products
Posted on July 30, 2010 | View CommentsAs is often the case with good ideas, they tend to pop up at several places at once, fed by trends and circumstance. To me this signals there is fertile ground for the idea, if pursued it can gain real momentum. So after I wrote... -
Innovation: an adventurous path worthwhile taking
Posted on July 27, 2010 | View CommentsAs designers we are constantly questioned about our impact on the financial results of a company. Business is interested in our methods but the final two (decisive) questions are always asked at the end: 1. What does it cost? 2. How much money will it... -
“Your Culture is Your Brand”
Posted on July 25, 2010 | View CommentsImage by katerha via Flickr The Harvard Business Review blog featured a post on the four lessons of culture and customer service. These four lessons were based on an interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Zappos is an innovative online shoe retailer and known for... -
HOME
Posted on July 23, 2010 | View CommentsHOME is a production of the PPRGroup (known for brands as Gucci, Yves Saint Lorrent and Alexander MCQueen). Home is a weel shot documentary about our home – planet earth. The chosen angle of the footage and script is very impressive: we humans are constantly... -
Upgrading the airline industry
Posted on July 22, 2010 | View CommentsAs a frequent flyer, I’m all too often confronted with the snafus of airport security and the silly processes airlines themselves make you go through. I still can’t believe that sometimes the time I spend at the airport is longer than the actual flight. And... -
The curse of the innovation age
Posted on July 21, 2010 | View Comments“The global economy’s problem isn’t best seen as a lack of demand. But as an oversupply of toxic, industrial age junk.” . This remark, by Umair Haque, is intriguing because usually, the uninterrupted supply of industrial junk is seen as the very motor of economic... -
Better ideas faster
Posted on July 18, 2010 | View CommentsAny entrepreneur or anyone involved in the creative side of business will benefit form good brainstorming techniques. It’s one of the best ways to apply creativity and groupthink to solve problems in a highly effective, focused way. Yet with all the techniques and methods available,... -
The art of selling dope
Posted on July 9, 2010 | View CommentsYou know how I recently posted Hugh’s idea that ‘Advertising is the cost of being boring’? Here’s something that’s sort-of the opposite of that: a guy who sells lobster rolls in the same way a drug deal happens. Yes, you read that right. Never mind... -
Advertising is…
Posted on July 4, 2010 | View CommentsI’ve been a fan of Hugh Macleod’s blog Gapingvoid for as long as I can remember, both for his marketing ideas as the cynical wit of his cartoons. This work of art, although not necessarily ‘beautiful’, rings very, very true: I’m not even going to...