Several weeks ago I attended the Open Innovation Summit in Orlando, Florida. You can read a transcript of live Twitter coverage from that conference here, and two very good wrap-up posts from Braden Kelley at Blogging Innovation here and here. While at that conference I got the chance to meet and speak with Ric Merrifield, business [...]
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While Time magazine dubbed the first decade of the 21st century the “decade from hell,” it has been a great time of innovation. The continued growth of the Internet powered new models, such as Google’s contextual advertising and Facebook’s social networking platform. Old line companies like IBM, Dow Corning, and Procter & Gamble showed that [...]
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Scott D. Anthony’s The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times, has made a number of “best of” lists for 2009. So far the book has appeared on Business Week’s “Best Innovation and Design Books 2009” list and on Hudson Booksellers “Best Books of 2009.” The book was also a finalist in the Business [...]
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In 2005, Rupert Murdoch was the toast of the media world. News Corp’s septuagenarian CEO had swooped in and picked up social networking darling MySpace for a price ($580 million) that seemed steep but not outrageous. Months later, MySpace signed a massive deal with Google, justifying Murdoch’s optimism. Growth surged. Seemingly overnight, Murdoch went from [...]
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The conversation at the Copenhagen climate conference is all about policy. But regulation won’t stop global warming by itself. Nor will simply spending money on clean technologies. In the US, President Obama has earmarked a half billion dollars of initial funding for a breathtaking array of renewable technologies. This looks like bold action, but it [...]
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Last Wednesday my wife and I were picking up a drink in Starbucks before boarding our plane to Washington D.C. to visit my parents. “Your parents always have such bad coffee,” my wife said. “Why don’t you buy some Via?” For those who don’t know, Via is Starbucks’ recently launched brand of instant coffee. A [...]
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