Category Industry sectors
In China, dreams of bright ideas [The Washington Post]
The Washington Post has a long story about innovation in China and what the Chinese leadership is doing to stimulate it. “Instead of millions of Chinese youths assembling somebody else’s inventions, the party leadership has concluded, the time is right…
To charge up customers, put customers in charge [The New York Times]
Older Consumers Flex Their Muscle (and Money) Online [The New York Times]
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites [New Scientist]
Putting the customer in charge [CNN/Business 2.0]
Are virtual worlds the future of the classroom? [CNET News]
The ethnography of marketing [Business Week]
The new core competency is ethnography. Companies use it to gain insights into the culture and behavior of their customers. But the demands of business are different from those of an anthropologist doing field research. The most obvious is speed.…
Enabling democracy through communications technology
Five hot products for the future [CNN]
SAP and user-centered design
FORERA, a European Foresight agency
Nokia study reveals consumer demand for digital convergence
Innovation through design thinking
Anthropologists help IT focus on how employees really work [Computer World]
Focusing on the ideal user experience
UK Design Council launches Design Factfinder to demonstrate the value of design for business
Banks creating a better branch experience
Experience things before they exist [The Economist]
ICT trends are changing how we teach and learn
Computers and technology are blurring the line between what we think of as traditional education – that is, going to school and sitting in classrooms; and what we think of as homework – that is, reading textbooks and studying for…