Archive for January, 2006
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Innovation at Davos (via Fast Company)
When someone neatly encapsulates the cycle organisations pass through, there’s not much more you can add… From the Fast Company Now blog : First, he said, you concentrate on making something cheaper than anybody else. And when you can no longer make something cheaper than anybody else, you concentrate on making something better than anybody [...]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Science Fiction as a predictor – again
You may recall the movie ‘Inner Space’ where a submarine is shrunk down the size of a pill and then inserted in a living body. While it’s not quite the same thing, similar results will soon be availbe via the SmartPill > – a pill sized monitoring device which – once swallowed – passes through [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Emerging Technology,Fringe scanning / peripheral vision by Roger Dennis
Friday, January 20th, 2006
Thermometer that projects temperature
Designing new products that incorporate a high degree of usability is always problematic. Inevitably feature creep invades the design, and you end up with the VCR – a product that 90% of the population simply uses to record and view programmes. They never use the myriad of other features because the usability has not been [...]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Advertising with Google Maps
Via Boing Boing comes this frankly mind boggling move in the advertising world – make your adverts large enought to be caught by satellite mapping services such as Google Earth. More about this at the MIT Advertising Lab I’ve seen farmers plough fields with large messages to be seen by passing aircraft, and some roofs [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Fringe scanning / peripheral vision by Roger Dennis
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
The Conversations Network (podcasting supremo)
One of the first and most useful podcasting sites – IT Conversations – has now morphed The Conversations Network. While it started as a storehouse of IT related conference podcasts, it now carries material from a vast range of different events from pure IT geekfests through to PopTech. When you cannot get to an event, [...]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Cathode Tubes vs Printed Words
From an Always On podcast with George Gilder comes this illuminating quote about the effects of lowest common denominator television : “A TV culture could never produce a TV. A book culture could produce an entire civilization”
No Comments » - Posted in Fringe scanning / peripheral vision by Roger Dennis
Monday, January 9th, 2006
Why monitor customers at the fringes?
Over the break I have been reading a book called Blindsided by Jim Harris. It tackles the issue of how companies can miss crucial changes to their markets. One of the more interesting examples deals with how a chocolate manufacturer started losing revenue for the first time at the end of the nineties, but could [...]
