I love the story of Chris Halberg the founder of Smug Coffee. He was in class at Marquette University and invented the idea of adding an...

A friend of mine recently asked me: What do you think are the biggest barriers to innovation? If you look at the literature on...

Google's recently reported $100-200 million investment in the company Zynga, the very popular online game company, is their latest...

When something gets modular, the opportunity to create many more innovations skyrockets. Hundreds, or thousands or millions of inventors...

On July 10, 1962, Telstar I was launched, the first communications satellite to transmit live television across the Atlantic. The term...

This post is co-author Joseph Calandro, Jr., author of Applied Value Investing (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2009). One of the most important and...

In a recent blog post I began to explore some ideas concerning the nature and economics of cognitive work in the modern corporation. I...

Esurance.com's current advertising campaign emphasizes the fact that their customers can interact with technology when they don't want to...

Courtesy of my dear friend Peer Munck (Founder of MunckMix, a music distributor), I just had my first ride in a Tesla Roadster, the...

Today's Boston Globe reports on some work at MIT's Media Lab. One of the projects is Proverbial Wallets -- which creates a wallet that...

I was talking with my friend Chris Curran today, our CTO, and he said, "you ought to write a post about 'seeing around the corner'". ...

Today, Google announced that it will move into the travel space with its $700 million acquisition of ITA, a flight information software...

I have been long fascinated by the economics of cognitive work and I plan to explore this topic across a number of blog entries. I use...

Not long ago, I was presenting along with some folks to the senior executive team at a large division of a massive insurance company. I...

Check out my new post at Harvard Business Review which talks about the new physicality of information -- linking marketplace &...

A dear friend of mine Barbara Feinberg researched many new product development processes and she helped Kim Clark and Steve Wheelright of...

A dear friend of mine was asking me about my 1994 article on Managing in the Marketspace, and I wanted to share some of my email to him...

About two months ago I was having a discussion with a senior executive from a world class animation studio about Avatar, James Cameron's...

Howard Greenstein has a nice article on Mashable which notes why content feedback and filters are necessary in social media. We've all...

There has been a wonderful debate going on in the pages of the Wall Street Journal between Clay Shirky and Nick Carr. Carr became famous...