How do you lead innovation projects as a straightforward process that anyone in your organization can implement? Or more dangerously, how do you manage a career while daring to run innovation projects? In this presentation at IAAPA Expo Europe 2025 … Continue reading anybody can innovate: managing innovation as a process
To all the young people starting their careers and distraught about the hazy future, remember this: SKILLS are timeless; TOOLS are temporary; RESULTS are actual value delievered to your paying customers. I have no sympathy for “professionals” who derive their … Continue reading skills vs tools vs results
The future of architectural lighting for office, healthcare, retail and many other applications will combine three key trends: 1. COFFERS: Healthy lighting for interior commercial environments will demand that occupants get lots exposure to big, soft vertical planes of light … Continue reading healthy for you, healthy for the environment…and absolutely fabulous
Balanced somewhere between creative optimism and programmatic pessimism is an ethereal, magical place where innovation concepts meet real revenue. Tip the scale just slightly in either direction and that magical meeting of the two is torn apart and the innovation … Continue reading the delicate balance of optimism and pessimism in innovation
Why don’t more hiring managers and recruiters demand that potential executive candidates provide videos of their conference presentations? Of impromptu media interviews? Of social media pieces? Of examples of their own personal copywriting, scripts, presentation decks and storyboards to back … Continue reading video killed the resume star
STATE OF THE ART? Well, ummm… Nike is getting a lot of media coverage for its recent “A.I.” shoe concepts. The designs are slick, for sure, but the whole thing is more a lesson about marketing a company’s innovation efforts … Continue reading nike’s use of ai
It is absolutely ridiculous to hear the CEO’s of Nike and Dell trying to scapegoat remote work as a root cause for their dismal performance and frozen innovation. I’ve worked remotely and globally for nearly 12 years now, extensively predating … Continue reading the only thing wrong with remote work is how swiftly it exposes incompetent management practices
INNOVATION IS FUNDAMENTAL: It is a DERISKING PROCESS that converts a pool of INTERESTING IDEAS into PROFITABLE CASHFLOW. When your leadership team internalizes this essential fact, they will inevitably commit to innovation as a continuous process, one that has to … Continue reading innovation process
Understand the difference between Marketing, Product Marketing and Sales communications tools? Here’s a diagram I made several years ago, appropriating Blair Enns “Win Without Pitching” sales structure, to help a small B2B-focused company better understand what constitutes “brand” and why … Continue reading brand management: marketing vs product vs sales
Because of the rapid acceleration of numerous technologies, our society must learn how to separate TOOLS vs. SKILLS vs. RESULTS in our education, hiring, and management processes. My neighbor in my coworking space recently introduced me to his new intern … Continue reading what is enduring craft knowledge in a world of A.I.?
Go ahead: Try to figure out which one is the soap. Zoom in all you want! Imagine yourself on a business trip, trying to take a shower in the morning. Bleary-eyed, the shower is steamy and foggy, and without your … Continue reading design fails and creative egos
Focal Point Lighting just released a product line that really upsets me: According to their spec sheets, their new “Naturals” line is nothing more than vinyl stickers of fake wood grain slapped onto their standard aluminum and plastic lighting fixtures. … Continue reading greenwashing at its worst: focal point “naturals”
WOW! Congratulations to my old colleagues at lightly for winning the hugely prestigious U.S. Department of Energy L-Prize competition! They won a $375,000 award for the Low-Carbon Biodegradable Luminaire Track. For a small team like Lightly, this is a HUGE … Continue reading lightly wins U.S. DOE L-Prize!
Special thanks to Bob Snyder who wrote a great piece for rAVe PUBS about Megapixel’s launch of Ventana. Bob included numerous quotes from yours truly. Here’s the link to the article. Here’s a PDF print of the article for posterity: Continue reading rAVe PUBS: window to the future
Innovation is the process of systematically derisking ideas. Like any other process, innovation itself can be made more efficient. Hardly anyone understands this basic principle, with misunderstanding of “innovation” leading to chronic failures of flashy, one-off “innovation” initiatives. The start … Continue reading what is innovation?
Ideas constantly flow into businesses from a variety of sources. Businesses with strong innovation management processes routinely capture, visualize and curate that never-ending stream of ideas. Healthy businesses in fact collect and generate far too many good ideas then they … Continue reading extracting value from leftover ideas
A very interesting podcast episode from Peter Diamandis: The title for Diamandis’ YouTube is sensationalist but wrong. The future is not AI vs. Actors. The future is the Entire Global Population Using Technology to Entertain Themselves vs. The Hollywood Monopoly. … Continue reading hollywood versus the future
Most people simply can’t grasp the concept that the RATE of technological change is accelerating so rapidly. That so many aspects of technological progress are exponential, not linear. Am I missing something or are the striking Hollywood unions so enamored … Continue reading synthetic stars and your career
FACTORY FOR MARKETING? A few years ago I oversaw the renewal of the marketing function for a mid-sized B2B company looking to continue its 30% annual growth. In this video I’m going to walk you through the process for standing … Continue reading factory for marketing
I’ve recently seen various designers sharing some “A.I. image per day” posts.That’s so cute! Like a “sketch a day” when I studied architecture in college or even a “dictionary word a day” when I was in elementary school! But I’m … Continue reading can you keep up with a.i.?
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