Joyce Wycoff offers up a Good Morning Thinkers!: Defining Innovation>modified definition of innovation. Here’s her definition: Innovation Requires: PEOPLE using new knowledge and understanding to experiment with new possibilities in order to implement new concepts that create new value. We believe this definition emphasizes the importance of gathering new knowledge and understanding before trying to find solutions and the concept…
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Steps in the design process
This is from a while back, but it was just raised as part of a discussion on the AIfIA list: Peter Merholz blogged a diagram from Vijay Kumar that describes the steps in a design process. To quote: You start in the lower left-hand corner, getting to “know” the “real” – users and their contexts. Then you move up, abstracting…
IDEO: The Power of Design from BusinessWeek
Interesting article in the May 17, 2004 issue(sub. required) of BusinessWeek on IDEO’s process of designing a better consumer experience. Here’s an outline of the IDEO way: 1. Observation IDEO’s cognitive psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists team up with corporate clients to understand the consumer experience. Some of IDEO’s techniques: Shadowing Behavioral mapping Consumer journey Extreme user interviews Storytelling Unfocus groups…
Our failure in Iraq
When I first heard about and then saw the images of prisoner abuse coming from Iraq last week, I had this overwhelming sense that it was over for us in there. Two editorials capture and help to explain what I think are the primary issues. First, Phillip Kennicott writing in the Washington Post, writes that you cannot separate the acts…
Postmodernism and Christianity
My wife and I were having a conversation with a friend the other day about postmodern Christianity. I realized that I knew very little about postmodernism, but I do “know” someone who does: AKMA. I have added his book to my shopping cart at Amazon. Speaking of his books, I just ran across this post on his site. I’ll be…
From Dave Pollard: A prescription for business innovation
First in a three part series on innovation by Dave Pollard. Here’s his introduction: “My modest objective in this presentation is first, to tell you some new, interesting and useful things about innovation, and, second, to persuade you that innovation is the most important determinant of every business’ success, and perhaps even the quality of our lives. I want to…
Movable Type Tips
Erik J. Heels offers a great list of tips, tricks and resources for installing and customizing Movable Type. Original pointer from Rick Klau.
From IdeaFlow: Compendium of idea generation methods
Here’s a great list of idea generation methods originally compiled by Martin Leith and now maintained by Renee Hopkins.
A prescription for business innovation
Dave Pollard, author of the How to Save the World Weblog, is running a 3-part series on business innovation that contains a lot of good food for thought. This first segment of three introduces Dave’s purpose, which is to evangelize innovation. From: [Innovation Weblog]
Business Plan Archive goes live
A year or so ago I submitted some docs to an academic institute regarding iVendor — my last employer — a dotcom in Silicon Valley that created ecommerce capabilities for sites such as the Oscars, ABC, Fox, et al. Here… From: [JD’s New Media Musings]