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Social enterprises exist, and strive, to become a new form of organization to effectively solve some of the most pressing challenges within our society. There is a wide, and probably growing, gap between the scale of the problems we face and the scale of the solutions on offer. Creative ways for advancing...
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In a recent global study, 78% of respondents claimed they trust peer recommendations more than they trust advertising. Common sense would suggest that 78% of the advertising budget should be spent on something else, no? The media landscape is constantly changing. Technology is constantly changing. Power...
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The man pictured above is Umair Haque, head of the Havas Media Lab in New York City, and author of a new book, The New Capitalist Manifesto, published in January of this year. Like the book its title plays on, The New Capitalist Manifesto calls for a new economic order, but not of the hammer and...
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Some years ago, in the course of researching what kinds of positive values could be associated with ‘brand Canada’, it occurred to me that we might be able to build a platform around the notion of helping to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. But to do that would require thinking...
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On its way to meme-hood, even before it has had a chance to gain purchase in the minds of the people who need it most, the term ‘design thinking’ is showing signs of mutational stress that threaten a common understanding of its value and validity. The concept is being misappropriated, misrepresented...
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The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan believed every unsuccessful act to be successful as discourse. Mistakes are reference points. They re-calibrate our assumptions and reorient our course of action. The culture that doesn’t identify and contemplate its mistakes is condemned to repeat them. Applied...
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The phenomenon of cheaper, faster, better (better in terms of having more options) is more a result of global economics than it is a corporate mandate. If you think about Bauhaus (the origins of Industrial Design) and how it was intended to provide a social service of making houses and household product...
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When you work at an innovation consultancy, you take the word innovation seriously. For three years, I’ve worked at Idea Couture helping dozens of organizations design disruptive future scenarios based on real consumer insights, social and societal needs, economic imperatives, and technological...
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So, Facebook is evolving. With emphasis on at least 3 core web services – search, chat and the upcoming email – Facebook is getting more serious about functions that Google, among others, are doing well at providing. It makes sense. So here are some quick thoughts on what 400 million users...
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Media companies seem to be falling over themselves trying to prop up revenues in an ever-changing environment. Yet, there seems to be very little innovation in how they’re going about it. For the last several weeks, much has been written about Rupert Murdoch’s plans to de-index from Google and...
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