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Will General Motors Pick Up Chrysler On The Cheap?
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 3:19pm PDT
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My forecast that the cost-cutting strategy of the private equity Cerberus guys who bought Chrysler from Daimler Benz would fail is, unfortunately, turning out to be true. By hiring ex-Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli, who's speciality is efficiency, they embarked... -
The 10 Commandments of Web Design.
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 3:05pm PDT
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Matt Vella over at the Innovation & Design site interviewed RISD's John Meada, Don Norman, NYTimes.com's Khoi Vinh and other smart folks on web usability and came up with The 10 Commandments of Web Design. See if you agree with... -
Life On And Off The Reservation--Learning From Modern Native American Indians.
Posted: June 25th, 2008, 6:18pm PDT
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Check out this great website that takes you inside the real life of modern American Indians. One of my favorite sections is In The Hoop, an inside look at Washington from an Indian's perspective. Totally amazing. You can even Twitter... -
IDEO's Tim Brown On Innovation In The Harvard Business Review.
Posted: June 25th, 2008, 4:03pm PDT
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The fact that the Harvard Business Review asked IDEO's CEO Tim Brown to write about Design Thinking in the current issue is as important as what he had to say in the piece. It marks the acceptance and legitimization of... -
Hooray for McCain. A $300 million Contest for A Better Battery Is A Great Idea.
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 11:33pm PDT
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Way to go John McCain. There is nothing more imporant to the US and the world than an incentive-driven competitive innovation process to produce a better battery. A smaller, ligher, more efficient car battery is key to getting the global... -
Best Applications For The iPhone Adn The Mobile Web.
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 5:08pm PDT
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There is a great package of stories on the latest mobile web design on the Innovation & Design channel starting with the best applications for the iPhone. The criteria were good ones: "in selecting our top Web apps, we focused... -
Ben Arent Creates a OLPG--One Laptop Per Grannie. Get Him Venture Funding.
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 5:10pm PDT
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Just got a post from Ben Arent in the UK on his "Betty," a social networking system for all our grannies. Ben uses sophisticated design thinking and methodology to come up with an idea for an easy-to-use digital system to... -
One Laptop Per Grannie--OLPG.
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 3:30pm PDT
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I just got back from trips to Florida and Oregon to visit two very old folks--one 93 and one nearing 90. Both are women, one lives in assisted living, the other at home. Both are lonely. At a time when... -
Frank Tyneski, Director of IDSA, Talks About Design.
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 3:19pm PDT
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Check out the great video pod interview with Frank Tyneski, the new head of the Industrial Designers Society of America. He talks about moving from push to pull, the promise of smell (oh yeah), education, strategy and more. Great to... -
The Economist Doesn't Understand Innovation.
Posted: June 11th, 2008, 10:54pm PDT
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I recently posted on why the Presidential candidates--and the nation--need to start a conversation about designing a National Innovation Policy. It suggested a number of things we might want to consider and asked for ideas from anyone interested in the... -
A Slide Show Of Peruvian Kids Using One Laptop Per Child Computers.
Posted: June 8th, 2008, 4:00pm PDT
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Geri Smith did a remarkable job in Peru for the Old Laptop Per Child story in the current issue of IN--Inside Innovation. Check out her narrated slide show of the children. Amazing photos.... -
The Mismanagement of One Laptop Per Child.
Posted: June 5th, 2008, 10:03pm PDT
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The next issue of Inside Innovation is out online on Thursday and in print on Friday and it features a cover story on how the One Laptop Per Child foundation was mismanaged by its founder Nicholas Negroponte. Negroponte is a... -
Why Clinton Lost To Obama. Obama Designed A Better Campaign.
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 3:49pm PDT
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There are many reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic Party nomination to Barack Obama but perhaps the most important is that the Obama campaign's use of modern principles in design thinking and web social networking was superior to Hillary's... -
Stairway to Brand Heaven--And Hell.
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 3:45pm PDT
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Check out David Armano's illo of the steps to Brand Heaven--and Brand Hell. From disloyalty to loyalty.... -
Brand Autopsy on Business Week
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 3:33pm PDT
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Check out branding guru John Moore's blog Brand Autopsy Marketing Practice on why in-depth journalism has a strong following. It's about my own magazine, which makes me reluctant to call out, but the blog item is from an independent source.... -
Top Ten Most Networked Nations In The World.
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 11:29pm PDT
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The World Economic Foundation out of Davos, Switzerland has a new report out on the most networked economies around the globe. It's called The Global Information Technology Report: 2007-2008. Here are the top ten: Denmark Sweden Switzerland US Singapore Finland... -
General Motors Goes Green.
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 10:10pm PDT
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SO GM is closing four truck and SUV plants and expanding assembly lines for smaller compact cars. No wonder. Americans are finally starting to buy hybrids and gas-sipping compacts in a huge way. Treehugger has the stats. We're waiting for... -
My Green Metrocard For The Subway.
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 10:01pm PDT
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I bought a Metrocard for the New York subway recently and it was colored green, not the usual black. Nice. Then I flipped it around and there it was. A message from the MTA : "Your carbon footprint is 1/4... -
Obama at Google on a National Innovation Policy.
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 3:04pm PDT
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Thank you Gustavo Munoz for pointing out this YouTube video of Barack Obama talking at Google a year ago about innovation. Here are the outlines of an Obama National Innovation Policy: 1- Network neutrality. Keep the internet open. 2- Broadband... -
Chicago Is The Most Innovative Big City In America.
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 6:12pm PDT
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What US city has a Department of Innovation and Technology? Chicago. And none other, as far as I know (maybe Portland, OR?) I met Hardik Bhatt, Chief Information Officer of Chicago's Department of Innovation and Technology at the recent IIT...