In this video, designer Paolo Cardini encourages us to focus on one task, not many. How can you do that?
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Polaroid Instant Camera and Vision
We are still a long way from the...camera that would be, oh, like the telephone: something that you use all day long...a camera which you would use not on the occasion of parties only, or of trips only, or when your grandchildren came to see you, but a camera that you would use as often as your pencil or your eyeglasses.Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid and the inventor of the instant camera
This 1970 quote is from a Wall Street Journal article adapted from Instant: The Story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos (Princeton Architectural Press). Was Land’s vision of the future our smartphone? What do you document with pictures on your smartphone?
Are droids taking our jobs?
Andrew McAfee speeks about the impact of robot technology on jobs. Robots are getting better and the potential for major workplace disruption, including knowledge workers, in the future seems inevitable. How can technologies affect business and jobs?
Just Try a Disciplined Innovation Experiment
Vijay Govindarajan, Tuck professor and author of Reverse Innovation, outlines how to run a disciplined innovation experiment. List your unknowns Rate each unknown for uncertainty and importance List the highest rated unknowns Test unknowns with the highest scores first
Motion sensing technology is a disruptive innovation
How might motion sensing technology impact the work environment?
Reverse Innovation
In this video, Vijay Govindarajan, Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business, defines reverse innovation as “innovation that starts in poor countries and then, it is brought to people in wealthy countries.” Can we change our innovation paradigm from “value for money” to “value for many”?
Tablets Market
The tablet market -- essentially created by the iPad's introduction -- is even more explosive than the smartphone market. After less than two years, U.S. mobile subscribers were using almost 40 million tablets, according to ComScore. It took smartphones seven years to reach that level of adoption.Kunur Patel, Ad Age Digital
The diffusion of a new product is the process by which the innovation is spread through the marketplace over time. Product innovation characteristics influence the rate of adoption. The relative advantage of the product compared to existing products will affect the rate of adoption. If the product is seen as a significant improvement over current [...]
Skunkworks
a place inside of a big company where you foster innovation, and where you reward doers for that taskTracy Dolgin, president and CEO of the YES cable sports network
The Future of Management
Gary Hamel, author and co-founder of the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), believes management for the 21st century must be reinvented. In this excerpt from the University of Phoenix Distinguished Guest Video Lecture Series, Hamel discusses “what it means to build organizations that are fundamentally fit for the future—and genuinely fit for human beings.” How can [...]
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