Shell Global Scenarios to 2025 and 2050
The newest scenarios from Shell, the company that has been trendsetting the use of scenarios in strategic planning. Go to website
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Experientia
European firms bloom by shifting to services [International Herald Tribune]
With competition mounting from low-cost Asia and the fast-moving United States, European businesses are searching for a model to make them viable in an increasingly globalised marketplace. Read full story
Portrait on BodyMedia’s CEO Eric Teller [Forbes]
Teller, 34, is chief executive of BodyMedia, a company he cofounded six years ago in Pittsburgh. BodyMedia has sold 7,500 armband monitors, 2.9-ounce pods packed with six sensors absorbing physiological data 32 times a second. Wearers dump their data wirelessly…
A beginner’s guide to changing the world [Christian Science Monitor]
It helps to be persistently joyful and joyfully persistent. Read full review
Europe’s VCs outpacing U.S. [Red Herring]
Venture firms in Europe triple fundraising for investment while U.S. fundraising drops 44 percent. Read full story
Michelangelo Pistoletto and Cittadellarte present at Venice Biennale
Michelangelo Pistoletto and his foundation Cittadellarte present “The Third Paradise” at the Biennale of Venice. They will occupy the entire island of San Servolo, which is located between the Giardini and Lido all through the summer. The opening events are…
Made in Europe: Italy seeks renaissance of industry [International Herald Tribune]
Many of the largest European economies are casting about for a blueprint to remain competitive in the 21st century, as the forces of globalisation and technology shift the fault lines of economic power across the globe. Read full story
Thumbs up for easy use [International Herald Tribune]
While we in the real world labor over the small screens of our mobile devices, trying to figure out which menu button gets to our contact list and which key makes an exclamation mark, researchers and sociologists in assorted…
Europe’s battered tiger [The Economist]
Marco Boglione and the Chinese threat to Italian manufacturing. Read full story
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea moves to Milan
In October 2005, the Interaction Design Institute will leave Ivrea and move to the new premises of Domus Academy in Via Watt in Milan. Read full story
Building a science of services [Business Week]
The global economy requires a new way of thinking about how technology, R&D, human resources, and management need to combine. Read full story
From counterculture to computer culture [Red Herring]
John Markoff’s “What the Doormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer” makes the case that the personal computer is intimately bound up with the growth of the counterculture in the 1960s. The personal computer’s origins in the…
Philips Design research projects
Aside from the many (sometimes older) projects, the website showing Philips’ design research projects also contains an interesting movie on foresight (Delphi movie). It seems that the most recent projects are under “Smart Connections”. Go to website
NextBillion.net
NextBillion.net brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. Their goal is to identify and discuss sustainable business models that address the needs…
AIGA Center for Brand Experience
Creative directors, market researchers, brand strategists and experience designers built the AIGA Center for Brand Experience in order to pool their knowledge and skills to educate the business and design communities about building successful and innovative brands. Go to website
Nathan Shedroff’s glossary of experience design
An evolving glossary of experience design. Go to website
India firms shift from low-cost to high-tech [International Herald Tribune]
To some, the notion of outsourcing work to India conjures up stories of American and European software programmers being reduced to stocking supermarket shelves to make a living. To others, it evokes legions of fresh-faced Indians willing to do…
Ian Davis (McKinsey) on business and society [The Economist]
By building social issues into strategy, big business can recast the debate about its role, argues Ian Davis of McKinsey. Read full story
For all who have never climbed a tree [Christian Science Monitor]
‘Go out and play’ vs. ‘de-naturing of childhood’ Read full review
Sensors and pixels everywhere
Anatole Gershman, global director of research at Accenture Technology Laboratories, interviewed about Accenture’s vision for the future of technology, which includes interactive grocery carts and the ability for your wardrobe to communicate with stores. Read full story