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So you want to be a design thinker?

Posted by maz on June 18th, 2007

All you have to know in case you’d answer this question with “yes” has been summed up by some Stanford students in a creative way. They’ve made a video called “Design Thinking for Dummies” and the whole process is presented by example. [youtube JZH70qhmEso nolink] The process: understand observe synthesize prototype iterate implement So let [...]

quintillions of possible configurations

Posted by maz on June 14th, 2007

Why should anyone pay $200,000 for solving Rubik’s Cube in 26 moves? Credit: Popular Science Blog The U.S. National Science Foundation supports this project becaue of it’s relevance for problems of search and enumeration. And scientists from the Northeastern University have completed the mission. In times of highly increasing amounts of data search interests will [...]

high-speed innovators

Posted by maz on May 25th, 2007

Spammers are supposed to be one of the fasted innovating community in the whole “business world”. In this context John Graham-Cumming stated the following at last year’s EU Spam Symposium: Spammers innovate constantly: the products they sell how they send the spam (fixed IPs, broken web forms, open proxies, zombie networks, …) the content of [...]

Dell’s “new” sales strategy

Posted by maz on May 20th, 2007

Dell’s direct sales strategy is one of the most often cited examples concerning process and business model innovation. Now the CEO Michael Dell announced at CRN that his company is going to enforce other sales channels like commercial resellers and retail stores. So the question is whether Dell is back paddling because it has undervalued [...]

Who succeeds in internet business?

Posted by maz on May 19th, 2007

The maybe astonishing but simple answer is: the big companies! Credit: Enterprise Ireland On the internet, the big get bigger. It wasn’t supposed to be like that. When the web arrived in the early 1990s, it was heralded as a liberating force that would free us from the confines of gated communities like AOL and [...]


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