Monthly Archives: November 2011
Consumer behavior to “pay what you feel like” pricing differs greatly depending on perceptions of where the money ends up. If it covers operating costs for non-profits, we all seem to be generous in opening our wallets (with the exception, of course, for local New Yorkers who frequent the museums). On the other hand, if it covers that vacation house in the Hamptons for the owner, our wallets don’t seem to open as wide. Continue reading
John Cardente, a newly appointed EMC Distinguished Engineer, is responsible for the Innovation Showcase analytics that I’ve been sharing in recent posts. He’s been doing this work in his spare time to pursue an interest in data science. I asked him to investigate the contest’s social network to identify “cliques” of innovators. Here’s what he found. Continue reading
How do you approach innovation? How do you solve system-level problems? Well, you can’t start with ‘broken’! Business Innovation Factory’s 7th annual conference, BIF-7, was rich with the art of the possible. Continue reading
High-performance athletes know how to use arousal to drive optimal performance that leads to a spike of thrill. So how can we in business use arousal and thrill to help employees embrace risk and have peak experiences that result in a pleasurable burst of accomplishment? Continue reading
Here is a talk from Mike Krieger of the Stanford HCI Group that he gave at an Adobe Plerk Workshop. HCI being Human Computer Interaction. It examines how people react when you task them with creativity for crowd solutions.
Entrepreneurship is really a sales job at heart! If you want to eventually sell your company (and you should!), then you have two sales missions: (1) selling your product, or service, very well and (2) selling your company. That includes a well-defined strategic long-term vision, articulating your expertise, previous successes, execution capabilities and a solid organization + team! Continue reading
