February 20, 2012
- What is Design Thinking? Because of the word “design” and many automatically associate it with the craft of design or design as a profession. Actually it is less to do with “design” and more with “system”. There are many ways to define "design thinking" and this list is not exhaustive: A way to instill customer-centricity and empathy A framework for...
February 13, 2012
- Why innovative new products fail? Because marketers believe they know the industry, the product market and the customer and their needs. And after going through cycles of input gathering and any orginal innovative ideas were ultimately turned into something that a lot like their existing products with minor improvisation. Sounds familiar? Too many firms “innovate” with very few real insight...
February 5, 2012
- What is "Strategic Transformation?" For some, it is the framework and process of altering the way in which an organisation does business using with new technologies. For others, it is the effort to develop a measured, goal-orientated response to marketplace events, or to improve performance by becoming more customer-centricity. But the most stratgic reason is the design and execution of...
February 1, 2012
- The future is scary and there are reasons for that. I have been giving a lot of keynotes lately to different professional organizations and senior executive roundtables and the my keynote topic of strategic innovation and design thinking went beyond innovating to find growth and adapting to new economic, market, political and social order, I shared my thoughts around the...
January 27, 2012
- Apple's current biggest problem is not the next iPhone. It is the 100 billion dollar problem. Microsoft had been criticized for years for having too much cash and not putting them to use. They eventually started paying dividend starting 2003. It is not easy to deploy them in a way that creates the expecatation of return Apple's investors are expecting....
January 22, 2012
- People think innovation is almost just about new ideas. Funny how many think Blue Ocean Strategy is a big wake-up call when all it does is communicating the very the basic and simple idea of strategic innovation – how not to compete with your competitors in the same game and instead create a new game. A strategist has the choice...
January 2, 2012
- What is creativity? How does it happen? How do we prepare ourselves for it? Or can you at all? Do you have to be a whole-brain thinker, or do you only need the right side of your brain? Can you be rational and logical while being creative? I dedicated a whole issue of M/I/S/C/ to "Creativity" and this is now...
December 18, 2011
Over 60% of companies out there are operating on a dated buisness model and 20% operating with a mental model that had expired for more than 5 years. There are little reasons for those 20% of...
December 13, 2011
We had our Idea Couture Christmas staff part last week. Looking back there were a lot being accomplished and a lot more to do. What started as a little experiment bringing multi-disciplinary design...
November 29, 2011
I am in Egypt this week and trying to finish three big Power Point decks, writing 6 documents and finished reading 63 documents with a slow Internet connection. And trying to finalize the editorial...
