Startup Success: You Got To Get Lucky
Oh You Lucky Startup Founder, You! There are plenty of motivational speakers out there who speak about being successful and purport to have the magic formula for success in their back pocket,…
June 30, 2015Need To Innovate? You Must “Go There”
Go There, To Innovate Let me know if you’ve experienced this because I have. Remember the last time you were in a brainstorming session. Maybe you all sat down to address a…
June 29, 20151 Way We Innovate: Make Serendipity Our Good Buddy
The Popsicle was invented by enterprising an 11-year-old called Frank Epperson in 1905, who left a glass of soda on his San Francisco front porch with a stirring stick still it. The next…
June 26, 2015The Future Is Here: Wearable Enviro Trackers
The Trackers Are Here How would you live differently if you knew exactly how your environment was affecting you? Back in 2007, I wrote a set of predictive stories about what life…
June 25, 2015Happy Crowds Are Happy Customers
How To Get Happy Crowds You don’t need much more evidence than the last year’s numbers from Kickstarter to understand that crowdification is in full swing: 3.3 million people from all over the…
June 24, 2015Agile Is Eating The World
Forget Software. Agile Is The Latest World Muncher A little while back, Marc Andreessen (yep, the Marc Andreessen from Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz) made a super famous statement I’m sure that you have…
June 23, 2015Experiencing Tomorrow Today Book Released
Just wanted to do a quick post announcing that my latest book, Experiencing Tomorrow Today: On Being Innovative has just been released for the Amazon Kindle store. Check it out here. It’s a…
June 22, 2015Why You Need A Corporate Futurist
An Essential Role You Need To Fill: Corporate Futurist Whose job is it in your organization to look at the far future? Whose job is it to look out 5-10 years and…
June 19, 2015Design Vs User Experience In Innovation
User Experience Beats Design By now you’ve probably seen those famous images comparing design vs user experience – a beautifully designed and straight sidewalk is forgotten, instead a path is cut by people…
June 18, 2015Be A Better Human…Through Automation
Can Our Bots Make Us Better Humans Through Automation? If you are anything like me (and I hope not cause I’m totally unique 😉 ), then you forget things. A lot. I’ve…
June 16, 2015