Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Start with the problem, not with a solution
From the latest McKinsey quarterly (subscription only sorry) comes a great quote during an interview with Intuit’s Bill Campbell. He’s an innovation evangelist, and this quote sums up why : We hired some product managers with bank experience. One day, one of them comes to a meeting that included me and banking engineers and says [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Fringe scanning / peripheral vision,Innovation CULTURE by Roger Dennis
Friday, March 16th, 2007
New computer interfaces
Occasionally a new paradigm comes along which totally challenges the way your view your interactions with a computer. Jeff Han achieved this at the TED conference last year, and now, along comes a new development from Microsoft Research. Someone has given it the name ‘surface computing’ but that doesn’t really do it justice. You have [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Emerging Technology by Roger Dennis
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
This is NOT innovation
The overuse of the word ‘innovation’ is still annoying me. So much so that I’m going to start the thread – “This is NOT innovation.” Contestant one – step right up. I’m happy to be informed why the ‘i’ word has been added to this product (if you cannot see it, it’s just above the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Innovations by Roger Dennis
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
India is going to kick the world’s arse
Three days into running a Technology Futures workshop in Bangalore, and there’s a sliver of a gap to blog an off-topic observation. It’s a very succinct one too. In a few short years India is going to kick the world’s arse. Two stories : 1. On the plane I got talking to a senior exec [...]
