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Life’s little disappointments
As many of my closer friends and colleagues (and an audience at Front End of Innovation, in May) are aware, I’ve written another book (by the way, it’s not “out of print,” the printing is taking forever to get done–I’m waiting for permission to quote a famous author). It’s a book about finding invisible advantage…
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7 simple rules for being more innovative
Here’s the first of the expurgated clips from the session that I did at Front End of Innovation last week. (About 3-minutes)
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Decompressing and expressing what I saw at FEI
First things first. FEI2011 was an insightful and enjoyable event. I saw and learned from a lot of people doing a lot of very cool (and innovative, obviously) stuff. Maybe more important, I met a lot of people that are fascinating and passionate about their work, wherever it happens to be. And, most important (to…
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Connecting (Invisible) Dots at FEI
So the session went pretty well, I thought (once you look past the technical difficulties with the remote for the computer). It seemed that a few people were taking some notes and nodding at different points. Even some of the humour went pretty well. Even a bunch of folks in the room sounded like they…
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It could be worse…
On my way to Boston for the FEI conference speaking gig and Nature’s not playing fair. Logan’s slowed down due to a day of rain and Toronto’s not doing much better. So my wife (who’s eager to see the Survivor finale) and I are cooling our jets in the Porter lounge at the Billy Bishop…
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Mathematical progress
This post is about product development, innovation, and problem solving NOT of the equation and math variety. It’s about an interesting (to me) parallel I made between the progress of an unfolding new product and formulations of mathematics. Once you get past the basic mathematics of addition, substraction, multiplication, and division, you end up moving…
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Sony’s privacy/data breaches
This one is interesting to me, now that we’ve had a bit of time to digest it. No doubt there are others besides the woman in Ontario who are launching lawsuits against Sony. And, if there aren’t yet, these will probably get certified into Class Actions pretty soon. I think Sony’s going to have to…
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Mother’s Day
Kind of snuck up on me this year. Not sure why, but I was anticipating it next weekend. I wonder if anybody else got caught by surprise. No big one. Everything worked out. Thankfully, my daughter was on the ball. Still, with Easter being at a particularly unusual time of the Spring this year, it…
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Where are the signals about signals?
One of my staff just got back from O’Reilly’s Where2.0 in Santa Clara. I wish I had gone, but . . . (So much to do, so little time.) The interesting things that he brought back would fill the back of a half-ton truck easily. Exciting things like Facebook’s new coupon service that’s going to…
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Preparing for FEI
I may have mentioned that I will be on for a session at the 2011 Front End of Innovation conference next month. So, in addition to polishing final draft of the book I’m bound and determined to get out VERY soon, I’m preparing for the presentation part of the session. This is hard. (Maybe I’m…
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Wealth causes disease?
I would never make make fun of cancer and cancer patients. That said, this article in today’s Globe & Mail quoting a study that links wealth to higher incidents of breast cancer is begging for it. Read the article if you choose. The study essentially makes a two step correlation: less wealthy women produce more…
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