I’ve spent the last couple of days at Creative Innovation and I’ve really enjoyed the verbal fencing between Ray Kurzweil and Dan Dennett, but they both stopped short of delving into the meatiest part of the future. For this post I’m going to take as a given that the singularity is approaching fast and that …
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Rapid prototyping within Innovation
As we grow up we are all taught to create a finished piece of work which we then hand over for marking. This continues through school, higher education and into our work places. This is not, however, the optimal way of working. The theory behind Rapid Prototyping in Innovation is to create the simplest, cheapest …
Pedantic semantics
<rant> Social media. What is it? It’s not Facebook. Nor is it Twitter. They’re channels, or at best Social Mediums. Social Media is media that is designed to be shared. It can be an image, a piece of text, a video… whatever. But the whole point of it is that it can be passed along, …
Yes we can
Three words that captured a nation and echoed around the world. What a phrase. Why? Because it’s simple, affirming and generates commitment. Why does the internal networking tool Yammer work so well within Deloitte Australia? There are a few reasons* but overall it’s because it’s simple, affirming and generates commitment. And, most of all, people …
Thoughtless innovation
Where do ideas come from? It’s a good question as they seem to appear from nowhere. And that’s because they do. Ideas are created when the spaces between thoughts and knowledge are filled up. It’ s the chemical snap of the synapse that sparks the neurons and closes a gap in human understanding. So where …
Just because you can
Doesn’t mean you should. Take the can of self heating coffee that tempts so … drink me, I’m warm and you’re not, I have caffeine … Now the problem with this innovation is not that the can is, impressively, self heating; no, that’s a great idea that has been tested, developed and succeeds. The problem is …