Yearly Archives: 2008

Happy Holidays!

We are having our share of winter snow storms this year in Seattle, WA, and it has been quite amazing. It is quite uncommon for this area to get so much snow. Life has certainly been brought to a standstill. … Continue reading

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Innovation Strategies for the Global Recession from Innovation Weblog

For more advice on focusing your innovations during hard times, check out Innovation Weblog‘s special report Innovation Strategies for the Global Recession. Chuck Frey and Renee Hopkins Callahan have compiled an extensive list of strategies on how to maintain innovation … Continue reading

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Focusing innovation strategy during an economic downturn

Focusing your innovations during down times is key to survival. You need to keep on innovating to differentiate and grow, but also innovate on products and services your customers would be more willing to buy to stay profitable. As I … Continue reading

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Open the door and let me in…

I have been playing with the Roku Netflix streaming device, Apple TV as well as the XBMC and Boxee open source media centers running on Apple TV. This is the inspiration of this post: the what, why, when and how … Continue reading

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s+b Article: The Metric behind the Slogan

Strategy+business has a great article regarding innovative metrics by Michael Schrage. As the author describes, innovative metrics are measures that gauge the unique value inherent in an innovation as a means of marketing it. In other words, instead of just relying on … Continue reading

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