MAKING THE NEXT GENERATION OF MAKERS? As a father of two boys, for years I’ve had a concept floating in my head for a franchised “maker lab for children”: A place to let kids have fun building and making while … Continue reading makerlab franchise concept
Your company doesn’t know how to handle ideas, and it’s costing you cashflow. The world is drowning in ideas for new innovations, new products, new marketing concepts. Good ideas, great ideas, bad ideas. Poorly timed ideas. Expensive ideas. Irrelevant ideas. … Continue reading too many ideas, too little profit
Check out this well-considered video analyzing why Apple’s newer, post-pandemic style of product launch events are so successful. I made some quick notes of the 10 key items Arun Maini raises, below: 10. Feel Good Factor – “be a part … Continue reading understanding apple’s product launch events
I had such a wonderful time attending and presenting at the Design Management Institute Madrid 2023 Conference the past two days. For those who want the slide deck from my conference session “From Pencils to Pitchdecks: Transforming Yourself into a … Continue reading from pencils to pitchdecks: dmi madrid 2023
A critical aspect of innovation management is the formation of new teams. Check out this excellent piece from MIT’s Human Resources group summarizing Bruce Tuckman’s framework of Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. Copied in below for posterity:: Using the Stages … Continue reading the stages of team development
I love this simple framework attributed to DJ Patil, U.S. Chief Data Scientist during the Obama Administration: This hits the fundamentals of lean and agile. Of course, the important thing to remember about innovation management is that this needs to … Continue reading innovation framework
A very special piece for you today: To celebrate Lucept’s 1,000th post exploring the future of architectural lighting, let’s momentarily turn our gaze from the future to appreciate one of the most consequential innovations to impact not only lighting, but … Continue reading lucept’s 1,000th blog post: an interview with george craford
Please check out and support the Carbon Leadership Forum, a group focused on minimizing the overall carbon impacts of construction and the built environment. The Carbon Leadership Forum is accelerating the transformation of the building sector to radically reduce the … Continue reading carbon leadership forum
Some staggering statistics from the UN’s Resource Panel: The use of natural resources has more than tripled since 1970, and continues to grow. From 2000 to 2015, the climate change and health impacts from extraction and production of metals doubled. … Continue reading UN global resources outlook
I would like to thank the US Department of Energy’s Solid State Lighting team and the Guidehouse team for hosting a most interesting R&D discussion on Advanced Lighting & Manufacturing. I highly commend the US DOE team for their continued … Continue reading 2020 US DOE LED R&D Discussion Meeting – Adv Lighting & Manufacturing
This past week I attended and presented at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2019, staged by the excellent Messe Frankfurt Hong Kong team. My presentation was titled “From Architectural Lighting to Architectural Media“, in which I covered the transition to … Continue reading guangzhou lighting exhibition 2019
Agnetix is a new startup in the booming horticultural “grow light” category. Liquid cooling for very high-power LED fixtures in a controlled industrial environment makes a lot of sense for multiple reasons. But what especially caught my eye: It was co-founded … Continue reading agnetix
The Global Presence Alliance is a 10-year old international consortium of A/V dealers and systems integrators that offers an interesting business model, one that might be replicated in the lighting world. As I understand it, A/V suppliers around the world … Continue reading global presence alliance
Lightly Technologies is a Dublin-based startup making flat, tiled light engines using LED. Very simply, they’re targeting the profile shape of OLED with the performance benefits of LED. They are currently in the midst of an apparently successful equity-crowd-funding program … Continue reading lightly technologies
Congrats to both the Ketra and Lutron teams: Lutron acquired Ketra. Founded in 2009, Ketra had raised approximately $31m to date as of 2015. I have no idea as to Ketra’s revenue or acquisition price. Lutron is a solid company, … Continue reading ketra + lutron
There is a growing opportunity for design firms that fuse marketing and brand experience, systems technology/integration, and architectural design to develop location-based digital experiences. Put these together and it might look like this: Such an integrated agency would be very … Continue reading brand, tech and place
A nice article on in ArchLighting provides more detail on Ketra’s technology and product strategy. Specifically: Like audio speakers, which can act as both loudspeakers and microphones, LEDs can both emit and receive light. Ketra designed a module in which … Continue reading ketra in archlighting
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti Thanks to my colleague Peter Earle who added this comment on a Linked In message… Continue reading competitive innovation
GE is spinning out a new organization called Current that combines its lighting group with energy generation, storage and management technologies to create a comprehensive energy management service offering for large customers. Check out the coverage from Fortune and the New … Continue reading current by ge
An awesome presentation from Dutch real estate developer Coert Zachariasse, CEO of Delta Development, from the Circular Economy 100 Annual Summit 2014. Zachariasse’s presentation (and demonstrated business success) is a hugely refreshing breath of fresh air and is an outstanding … Continue reading coert zachariasse: a vision for the built environment
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