Archive for June, 2006
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Traditional workshops/forums = traditional outcomes
After sitting in a two day corporate workshop, I took time out to read gapingvoid. The latest post has a cartoon with the caption : “Working for a corporation means having to worry about getting fired on a daily basis.” It started me thinking about why almost every workshop is the same format, almost every [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Innovation CULTURE by Roger Dennis
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
The problem with Eric von Hippel’s innovation style
The excellent Business Week design/innovation blog has a piece on Eric von Hippels thoery of user led innovation. If you don’t know the theory, it focuses on getting what von Hippel terms ‘lead users’ to generate new product/service ideas for you, based on the idea that as a ‘lead user’ they know the use – [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Innovation PROCESSES by Roger Dennis
Monday, June 19th, 2006
Podcasts of interest…
If a picture tells a thousand words, then a podcast tells…err…lots more. The beauty about them is that rather than attending various expensive conferences, you can use sites like IT Conversations to find gold nuggets without having to endure cattle class seating, endless taxi rides and bad hotels. What’s more, nobody minds if you listen [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Inspiration by Roger Dennis
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
First Real World Shop in Second Life
Fresh in via Springwise comes the news that American Apparel is the first real-world retailer to open a shop in Second Life. In an earlier posting I wondered how long it would be before a bank opened in Second Life. Not a Second Life bank, but a real bank. The question is – who? Once [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Emerging Technology,Fringe scanning / peripheral vision by Roger Dennis
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Etsy – an extraordinary online shop
It’s almost a riddle – what has the feel of a blog, the design of graphic art site and a slick interface that would make Apple proud? It’s called Etsy and it’s an extraordinary marketplace place to buy handmade items from around the world. Browse by country, by category, by almost anything. It enables individuals [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Innovations by Roger Dennis
Monday, June 12th, 2006
New wheelchair design
From the BBC comes this article about a Formula One engineer who decided to re-design the wheelchair. He notes that the basic design of a wheelchair chassis dates back to vintage car days. This product cuts across a couple of fields, arbitraging the best of racing car design (a carbon fibre monocoque) to bring about [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Fringe scanning / peripheral vision,Innovations by Roger Dennis
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Guest blogging for Zopa
I’ve just done some guest blogging for zopa. It’s a post on peer 2 peer parking payment systems. If you don’t know what zopa is, then I suggest you check them out. They are the eBay of the banking world. I used to work with one of the founders at egg in London. The post [...]
