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I recall once at a dinner party being asked what I did for a living. My first answer, “I make, build and fix brands” was too vague. My second answer, “I’m in marketing” struck a nerve: “Oh, you’re one of those guys who gets us to buy things we don’t need!” (Ouch!) Tempted as I...
Art and Culture, Business Models, Consumer Electronics, Economics, Experience Design, Explorations, Industrial Design, Organizational Design, Retail Design, Service Design, Social Change, Strategic Foresight, Strategic Innovation, sustainability, Technology, Transportation Desgin, Uncategorized
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...
Articles, Economics, Featured Articles, Technology
I was really excited when I saw that Canada was getting some new DSL services that would give customers access to faster speeds and start making things like real time HD streaming video a reality. If you are not in Canada and haven’t heard, Bell has a new service that offers speeds up to 25Mbps download...
Articles, Business Models, Economics, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Web
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...
Business Models, Economics, Retail Design
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...
Articles, Business Models, Economics, Entertainment, Social Change, Strategic Innovation
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...
Art and Culture, Economics, Explorations, Social Media, Technology, Web
Twitter is continuing its unstoppable move forward. And what about those Twitter traffic “machines” and “buy your follower” programs? Twitter needs to figure this out quick. Twitter litter? Perhaps a payment/filter model will eventually work, weed out the hackers. We are also seeing Twitter...
Business Models, Economics, Social Media
Can the advertising industry withstand the next big disruption? Probably not. Since the emergence of modern advertising in the 20s, marked by the shift from text-based to visual advertising and the use of psychologically sophisticated messages, advertising began to resonate powerfully with consumers....
Business Models, CSR, Economics
CSR is still not a mainstream thing and there isn’t any standard definition. People still wonder the economic logic behind it, is there a positive correlation between economical performance and CSR or social standards can be a sustainable basis for the diffusion of the latter. But, very often, social...
Articles, CSR, Economics
Yesterday, I wrote about the demand side of sustainability and how serving consumer need and meeting expectations are the driving force to of purchase choice. Today, I want to explore the flip side of the coin – the efforts of corporations to design products and services that are inherently sustainable...
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