Innovation Shminnovation

What’s triggering all this innovation?  Boston, HuffPost, BusinessWeek, and your mom are talking about it.  I even have it in my blurb on the front page of my website (and for the record, have had it there for quite some time.) But really, why all the sudden buzz around “innovation”?  Did the universe have a [...]

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Designing Intuition

Let’s talk computers for a second.  What makes a good computer?  Most likely, it’s the speed, the size of the hard drive, perhaps what bells and whistles it has (a camera, built in mic, lots of USB ports).  A less likely answer though, is how easy it is to use.  While this is not necessarily [...]

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Movement and Innovation

There was an article in the New York Times a few days ago.  It profiles these kids (mostly out of LA) who came up with a new style of dance called jerking. Goofy, gentle, nimbly amateurish, jerking was little known outside certain precincts of this sprawling city until a year ago. But in the last nine [...]

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Where Innovation Happens

[[If you can follow my thoughts and get through this post, please comment.]] Not to knock social media but we must take a step back.  It’s fantastic for communications, but it sucks for innovation. Tweet, video blog, blog, and go to event after event after event and meet the same people over and over again.  No new [...]

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Novelty and Trash

Walking to work, I walk past a New York City employee cleaning the top of a trashcan with sanitizer. As a tax-paying and self-proclaimed semi-germaphobe citizen, this made me happy. Then I remembered the Volkwagen “Fun Theme” campaign – you know the one with the deepest bin ever? It occurred to me – what if every [...]

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Mass Inno 3 (#MIN3) Recap

Mass Inno is a monthly event held in Waltham, thanks to @BobbyC. The event showcases different exhibitors who are “innovators”. There’s great drinks, great things to look at and test out, and great networking! If you missed #MIN3, here’s a little recap!

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