Monthly Archives: May 2009
I had the opportunity to tag along to the first part of the ?WhatIf! Innovation Field Trip on May 4, 2009. This event began at the Apple Store in SOHO.The Apple Store session began with an Apple Store GM recounting of the predicted failure of the Apple Stores when they first opened back in 2001. Apple for their part wasn’t seeking to create just a retail store. They wanted to create a place to gather. Their first goal was to get brilliant real estate, and then integrate the store into the community if possible. The Apple Store started with four products (two laptops and two desktops) – this was before the iPod. They designed the stores to have flexible space – to be flexible to customer needs. In addition to the space being flexible, they’ve been flexible in creating new roles (e.g. Concierge, Creative, etc.) as a need was recognized.Apple … Continue reading
Hello all,Next week I will be attending the following events and live blogging and tweeting from them:1. May 4 – ?WhatIf! Innovation Field Trip to the Apple Store and OVO2. May 4 – Paul Saffo Workshop3. May 5/6 – World Innovation Forum4. May 7 – Field Trip to TheVisualMD headquarters to interview CEO Alexander Tsiaras I will also have my video camera and hope to record some segments for YouTube’s Survival of the Fastest and for the Innovation Interviews section of my site (coming soon).If you’d like to be interviewed on camera at the World Innovation Forum about the innovation efforts at your company, please DM me on Twitter. If you live in the UK, I am especially interested in interviewing you for potential Survival of the Fastest segments.Or if you’d just like to meet-up at the event, then please also DM me on Twitter.In addition to yours truly:@innovate (Braden … Continue reading
Would you like to follow innovation bloggers around the world for 24 hours as they post innovation insights for the 24 Hours of Innovation on May 15-16, 2009 (10:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M. (CET))?Blogging Innovation will be contributing a special post to the “My half time pep talk for 2009″ blogging event at 2:35PM CET (5:35AM PDT – West Coast Time) on May 15, 2009. This should be a lot of fun and very educational. You can confirm your interest and participation on the LinkedIn event page.The 24 hours are divided in time slots, each one featuring an exciting innovation ranging from an innovation award to creativity sessions, an innovative auction, start-ups, and interviews with global thought leaders. Everyone can follow and join the 24 Hours of Innovation on www.boardofinnovation.com, and from there the event will be covered cross-media on blogs, traditional media, twitter, slideshare, ustream, coveritlive, flickr, scribd, vimeo, … Continue reading
