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• Disrupting Consultants? Google & P&G Job Swap
  Source: Innoblog
  A lot has been written about the “job swap” program taking place between consumer packaged goods leader Procter Gamble and technology leader Google where “about two dozen staffers from the two companies…
• Faux simplicity
  Source: The User Experience Soapbox
  It’s finally gotten cold enough here in North Carolina (it’s 24 degrees outside right now) that I climbed up in the attic and got out our space heater for the kids’ playroom. In doing so, it reminded me of one of my least favorite design techniques – what I call “faux simplicity”……
• Pedestrians Power Tokyo Christmas Lights
  Source: Gizmodo UK
  Christmas lights are pretty indeed but they guzzle a lot of juice which is why the Shibuya train station in Tokyo decided to power its lights using commuters. Employing a special mat, pedestrians walking across…
• Coffee – Niemann Opinion Art Blog – Abstract City – NYTimes.com
  Source: niemann.blogs.nytimes.com
  Christoph Niemann’s illustrated reflections of life in New York City.
• Daddy, Where’s Your Phone?
  Source: O’Reilly Radar – Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.
  I met recently with Vic Gundotra, formerly Microsoft’s head of platform evangelism, and now VP of Engineering at Google, responsible for all their mobile efforts outside of Android. We were talking about Googl…
• A Little Ditty about “Innovation”
  Source: MAYA
  David Bishop writes: BACKGROUND I went to The Technology Collaborative’s annual meeting last night where, amidst random hors d’oeuvres and other presentations, I heard Rob Daley from Thorley Industries…
• Create Affinity Diagrams with Microsoft Sticky Sorter
  Source: Digital Inspiration – Technology Blog
  Building an Affinity Diagram on the Whiteboard. Credit: cmu.edu Sometime back I attended a brainstorming session where people had to share opinions about mobile phones and also come up with ideas that could…
• 10 More Things You’d Love to Say at Work … But Still Can’t
  Source: Michael Hyatt
  The list I posted yesterday was so popular, I thought I’d post a few more items from the original one. So by popular demand, here they are: Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coinciden…
• 3D Printer Feeds On Paper and Glue
  Source: Wired: Gadget Lab
  The two 3D models you see above are made from office paper. The one on the right cost $1 in parts to produce. The one on the left, just 37¢. They were spat out by a new 3D printer called the Matrix, from Brit…
• The Year’s 50 Best Inventions
  Source: Core77
  Time Magazine released its list of the 50 best inventions of the year. The winner? A home DNA-testing kit. The Speedo LZR is on the list, and so’s the spinning skyscraper, the memristor, three different elect…
• Tomorrow’s Anachronisms … Today
  Source: HarvardBusiness.org
  Enough talk of recessions, silver linings, and stock swoons. Let’s have some fun. Over the weekend, I was watching an episode of Seinfeld featuring a chance encounter at a video store (“The Smelly Car,” from 19…
• The Heart of Innovation: POLL RESULTS: The Top 18 High Tech Excuses
  Source: www.ideachampions.com
  Creativity, Innovation, Team Building, Leadership, Brainstorming, Idea Champions
• IDEO Labs » The Incredible IDEO Global Chain Reaction Experience
  Source: labs.ideo.com
  My Note: This is creativity in action
• Amazon.com–News Release
  Source: phx.corporate-ir.net
• Enterprise SaaS is Mainstream. Today.
  Source: SmoothSpan Blog
  It’s the High Holy Week for SaaS this week with the faithful attending Dreamforce. While that event is focused on Salesforce.com and its ecosystem, most companies that have anything to do with SaaS or an in…
• How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless
  Source: How to Change the World
  Pontificating, theorizing, and terrorizing abounds these days in tech startups. Here is a simple test to help you figure out if the startup you work for is in trouble. All you have to do is listen to your CEO…
• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature
  Source: Fast Company – Innovation
  The inventor of Velcro ripped cockleburs from his dog’s fur. Da Vinci and the Wright brothers studied birds in flight. And now a rising number of designers are looking to nature for inspiration. Companies as di…
• When to hire a consultant | Steve Tobak’s views on dysfunctional corporate behavior – CNET News
  Source: news.cnet.com
  Tech companies often hire consultants for the wrong reasons and fail to hire them when they should. Here’s guidance from someone who’s worked both sides of the fence. Read this blog post by Steve Tobak on Train…