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By Richard LeeJust how much money will people spend while playing video games? Investors seem to be betting that it's quite a lot. Read more...
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Just how much money will people spend while playing video games? Investors seem to be betting that it's quite a lot. Read more...
A retailer’s primary role may be that of curator and tastemaker, but that doesn’t mean that the crowds can’t pitch in to help. Modcloth is a Pittsburgh-based online retailer that sells affordable, independent designer women’s fashion. With a recently launched initiative called Be the Buyer, ModCloth encourages its customers to help choose which items to [...] Read more...
There’s a growing dining trend in several North American cities that has been gaining a lot of momentum. Instead of trying to just bring new customers to their restaurants, innovative thinking restaurateurs are also bringing their restaurants to new customers. Catering trucks and street food don’t have the best reputations–most have been known as “roach [...] Read more...
Apples Ipod keynote, boiled down to nothing but Superlatives. Enjoy this. Think they’re trying to let us know they product is Amazingly Nice and Just That Easy? Read more...
Spent a few hours in Nanjing Lu, the main shopping street in Shanghai with lots of shopping malls, department stores and restaurants… in a nutshell: everything the Chinese and tourists want in one street. I first visited this street 25 years ago and it was very different. Today’s Shanghai is different, but China is China, [...] Read more...
The ultimate innovation challenge comes to America’s doorstep. It’s knocking, banging, kicking and screaming. Someone give that kid a lollipop and get to work. But there’s so much to do! Hmmmm… the economic crisis has destroyed banks, jobs, academic endowments, homes and more; there’s massive (and growing) federal debt; the education system is painfully failing [...] Read more...
As part of Net Change Week at MaRS, Patrick and I were offered the opportunity to work with a non-profit called Social Purchasing Portal on helping them address some of the challenges they were facing in a variety of areas. The Social Purchasing Portal is a program whose primary goal is to create social value through [...] Read more...
Designers learn the value of sketching early in their careers. Sadly, business practitioners never get the same experience. Sketching is fundamental to the problem solving process. Read more...
Innovation is not a random event or some intangible initiative. It is a practice and a process. More specifically, innovation is best defined as “the process of creating economic value devising business ideas that addresses consumers’ unmet needs”. But there is a dilemma in understanding how ready firms are in embracing and executing on innovation. [...] Read more...
Open the innovation pipeline and get into the community with a pop-up experience that gets consumer feedback on up-&-coming services, products and initiatives. There’s a lot going on at the Kraft Product Ideation Center… Read more...
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