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On Wednesday, September 1, opensource.com will be hosting a webcast with Stefan Lindegaard, one of the world's leading experts on open innovation. Sign up for the webcast now Stefan is author of the recently published book The Open Innovation Revolution, and blogs regularly on 15inno.com and
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If you're a designer who thinks design deserves a 'seat at the table' you have to love John Seely Brown — a design hero and sherpa for the 21st century. His book The Power of Pull, co-written with John Hagel III, works off their recurring theme that
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My friend and business partner Chris Grams wrote a great blog earlier this week on whether or not companies should have vacation policies. We decided long ago at New Kind that we would not have a vacation or sick leave policy. You need or want time off, take it. We
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Daniel Pink published an interesting piece over the weekend in The Telegraph about Netflix's innovative corporate policy of not having a vacation policy. Meaning, employees don't have a set number of days they get off each year, but instead can take vacation whenever they want. From
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We live in a world with some big problems. That’s certain enough. I suppose it has always been true and will always be true. We advance. The blessing and curse of being human. We exchange one set of problems for the next. But we do not succumb. We do
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Think about a public space. Maybe it’s a park, or a public library, but some physical space owned by government. We have different expectations about public spaces, and our freedoms in them, compared to private spaces. Think about a place where civic happenings go on, where dialogue and delivery
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My good friend and business partner, Chris Grams, writes that “formality in business is dying.” He isn’t referring to fashion or manners. Chris is referring to formal business practices such as the heavy emphasis on structure: the arranging of elements rather than content.Amen, brother. And not a moment
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This week, those smart folks over at IDEO launched a new project they are calling OpenIDEO. If you aren't familiar with IDEO yet, you should be—they are the poster children for design thinking specifically and 21st century innovation more generally. IDEO has been responsible for groundbreaking designs
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When I hear people talk about how awesome their organizational culture is, I often find myself wondering what sort of “great” culture it is.For me, great cultures fall into two categories: entitlement and mission-driven. Those “best places to work” lists don't usually make a distinction, but I
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Ah, poor marketing. It has definitely been a rough patch for marketing the last few years. From those predicting that [fashionable term X] is the "new" marketing (social media! engagement! community-building! customer experience! design! communications!) to those predicting its outright demise, there are a lot of people looking
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I've been toying around with a new hypothesis. Here it is:Formality in business is dying. Now I am not talking about Blue Jeans Friday and Bring Your Pet to Work Day all of the sudden cropping up everywhere. I've seen very formally-run businesses where people
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When it comes to positioning terminology, I sometimes get questions like "what is the difference between a brand mantra and a brand essence?" or "is a point of difference the same thing as a key differentiator?" My answer? Don't get hung up on the