Category Archives: Observations

Port 2050: Vancouver scenario planning

November 28, 2011 – 1:46 pm

Robin Silvester, CEO of Port Metro Vancouver, gave the annual address at the Vancouver Board of Trade and wrote an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun on the subject of long range planning and the implications of four future scenarios for the Greater Vancouver Gateway region. The scenarios were part of a Port Metro Vancouver initiative [...]

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Five Dysfunctions of a Digital Team

October 18, 2011 – 9:46 am

When an organization’s external digital presence is inconsistent or incoherent, this is nearly always a symptom of deeper internal structural problems, such as: Silos: The people responsible for digital work are isolated from the rest of the organization. They can’t get the information they need to support other teams/departments until it’s too late. The digital [...]

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Integrating Sustainability and Corporate Strategy

July 29, 2011 – 12:38 pm

Integration of sustainability commitments into a company’s competitive strategy plan will increase the likelihood of ongoing funding. More and more Fortune Global 500 companies are following this approach. Ben Packard, VP of global responsibility at Starbucks described his company’s rationale like this: At Starbucks, sustainability and strategy are now integrated at the strategic planning level. [...]

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Bombay v New York

July 25, 2011 – 1:02 pm

Photo series by Nisha Sondhe on the two cities, via @ethanz.    

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Why innovation resists codification

July 20, 2011 – 3:50 pm

The latest book on [design thinking] is Designing for Growth, a “design thinking toolkit for managers” and it provides a pretty good snapshot of how people are thinking about the discipline right now. Namely, that the reins of design thinking lie firmly in the hands of executives. In this world, design thinking is shorthand for the [...]

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Associating. Questioning. Observing. Networking. Experimenting.

July 20, 2011 – 10:51 am

Clay Christensen and coauthors write in The Innovator’s DNA about “what makes innovators different.” They point to five skills or behaviors: First and foremost, innovators count on a cognitive skill that we call “associational thinking” or simply “associating.” Associating happens as the brain tries to synthesize and make sense of novel inputs. It helps innovators [...]

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Prehype helps companies execute on “20% projects”

May 30, 2011 – 9:37 am

Prehype aims to come into a company and identify its “intrapreneurs.” Then, they will host the employee or employees a la Google’s 20% time, building a new company outside of the original company. Another way it works is if an employee has an idea and seeks out Prehype. Prehype will then help them convince their company [...]

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Building companies on top of tech infrastructure

May 30, 2011 – 9:23 am

The East Coast tech-scene is booming because we are going through a phase where experience design, clever new business models and distribution is becoming as important as the technology itself. The new East Coast growth companies are standing on the shoulders of the tech platforms that the West Coast has built over the past decade [...]

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NYC Digital City Road Map

May 19, 2011 – 11:06 am

via nyc.gov Beyond the press about NYC partnerships with consumer internet companies like Foursquare and Tumblr, there is a lot of great information in here about increasing citizen access to technology, opening up government data, and supporting a thriving tech ecosystem.

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CEO Innovation Playbook

April 7, 2011 – 11:17 pm

via slideshare.net Innovation manifesto from Idris Mootee, head of “b-school + d-school” firm Idea Couture.

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