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
The global economy requires a new way of thinking about how technology, R&D, human resources, and management need to combine. Read full story
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…
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 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…
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
An evolving glossary of experience design. Go to website
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…
By building social issues into strategy, big business can recast the debate about its role, argues Ian Davis of McKinsey. Read full story
‘Go out and play’ vs. ‘de-naturing of childhood’ Read full review
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
BBDO Worldwide in New York, General Electric’s longtime advertising agency, was not getting the message. The agency had been offering G.E. its panoply of traditional marketing ideas, leaning heavily on the standard 30-second television spot. But Judy Hu, general manager…
It’s a transformation as significant as when we went from black-and-white to color—and it’s already underway. The promise is that you’ll be able to watch anything you want, anywhere—on a huge high-def screen or on your phone. Read full story
Mobile TV has been talked about for ages, probably since the first mobile phone with a colour screen became available and certainly since the launch of 3G, the faster networks that allow video to be accessed at a reasonable speed.…
Vodafone is launching a back-to-basics mobile phone in response to customer demand for simplicity. Read full story
A technology conference takes cues from nature. Read full story
Working across borders, designers Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar create a new strain of furniture. Read full story
Stephen Bayley takes a pit stop in Turin, and finds the hometown of Fiat is fuelled by fast cars and fabulous food. Read full story
“So how do you feel about e-mail?” asks Simon Roberts, a social anthropologist. “How has it changed your workload?” This is not what social anthropologists are usually expected to ask: they observe courtship rituals, try to interpret ancient chants,…
Cell phones. Memory chips. Plasma TVs. How Samsung made Korea a consumer electronics superpower. Read full story
Between 15 and 20 years into the future, Korean people’s long-time wish of living longer and healthier lives will come true and Korea will enter an era of space travel by completing the development of manned spaceship. Such predictions came…