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Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Month: February, 2007

links for 2007-02-27

LIFT || A conference about technology in our society. (tags: lift conference technology business future geneva)

If you’re wondering what Design school is like..

Check out my ugly mug on our school newsletter, The New Idiom. Boy, am I glad that our cardboard chair is (almost) done.  That was a multi-late-nightish project that was tough but fun.   The last thing we have left to do is create a posterboard and turn it in. I’m excited for the next design [...]

Semantics, shkemantics “Emerging Markets”… or “Base of the Pyramid”?

I’m writing this post to resolve, in my mind, the approach for MNCs toward opening product and service offerings in the developing world targeted at consumers who earn $2 a day or less. I am currently working on a project called Design for the Emerging Markets here at the IIT Institute of Design… We changed [...]

links for 2007-02-23

Index of Creative Transformation A practical Guide for Maximizing Creativity by John David Garcia (tags: creativity evolution) Marshall McLuhan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: tetrad mcluhan visualization)

links for 2007-02-20

What’s Next for India: Beyond the Back Office – Special Section – Knowledge@Wharton (tags: india emerging business)

links for 2007-02-19

How Knowledge Drives Innovation (tags: innovation management)

links for 2007-02-18

How to Save the World (tags: complexity visualization strategy thinking)

links for 2007-02-17

One Billion New Automobiles (tags: automobile emerging india china asia)

links for 2007-02-16

B-Schools Put Africa on the Curriculum (tags: africa MBA casestudy)

links for 2007-02-15

Ten Design Blogs You MUST Read | Crestock.com Blog (tags: Design blogs inspiration toread useful)

There’s nothing wrong with innovation…

…Unless your definition of innovation is to pepper your marketing campaign with the word “innovation”, “innovative”, or “innovate” over and over again. The entire point of innovation is that your consumers should be able to witness it without you telling them. To create an emotional connection with your product, and subsequently your brand… to consume, [...]

links for 2007-02-14

The Innovation Backlash (tags: innovation strategy)