Starbucks wants its coffee to be the first thing you grab in the morning — from your own kitchen. “Last week, Starbucks introduced the aisle to a group of journalists in a loft in New York City. The fixture, which has the look of a truncated grocery aisle, was done up in colors and textures… Continue Reading
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What the best jazz musicians and business brains have in common
How do you cope when faced with complexity and constant change at work? Successful leaders do what jazz musicians do: they improvise. “musicians get innovative ideas, and learn whether their playing is up to par. Organizations need to create similar room for jam sessions as Steve Jobs so deeply understood. They need to deliberately design… Continue Reading
Disruptive Innovation & How: The Empire Strikes Back – Technology Review
“How Xerox and other big corporations are harnessing the force of disruptive innovation.” It used to be the rebels (disruptors) toiled by themselves in their parents garages or so mythology would have us believe but, now larger giants like GE are embracing Disruptive Innovation and liking it. “disruptive innovations are typically introduced by start-ups, the… Continue Reading
Leading Change in the “New Normal”
“Perhaps the biggest benefit of deep and rapid change is that everything needs to be reexamined. When survival is at stake, all the “crazy” ideas that were dismissed earlier resurface for serious discussion.” Rapid change has created many examples of Innovation that everyone can learn from. This article focus on some of what has gone… Continue Reading
Why Hollywood’s Idea Of ‘Innovation’ Is SOPA | Techdirt
What happens when your business is based on fear? Fear that everyone is out to destroy your business. The answer of course is no innovation will occur. This post lays out a short outline of Steve Blank’s analysis of how Hollywood has based the foundation of their business on fear and not innovation. It’s a… Continue Reading
Can Bing Gain With Twitters Stream
I’m sure it won’t come as a surprise to many that Microsoft has reached an agreement with Twitter extending their cooperation in a number of areas including showing real-time Twitter search results in Bing. The two parties have a long history in working together and this agreement is in both parties interest, without it Twitter… Continue Reading
Market To The Lost 24% of Search Engine Users
The numbers don’t get thrown around very much and I hear more jokes about Bing then I hear suggestions to take it seriously but the fact remains, 24% of users used Alternatives to Google in December 2009. Of course you want your website optimized for Google but you don’t want to forget to find your… Continue Reading
Is Real Time Search a Dream or a Nightmare?
Over my first cup of coffee this morning I read a couple of articles about Google rolling out its new search feature that adds almost instant results from Twitter, Facebook, Google News and other resources to your search results. My first thought was oh no now people will see a bunch of crap but I… Continue Reading
Local SEO – SEM & Small Business
In the rush to get your site listed in the search engines you might forget about going beyond having your address to your store or office just on a contact page or at the bottom of each page on your website. True it is important to let the people visiting your site easily find the… Continue Reading