Cool Idea: A smart coffee cup named Smug
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...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 15, 2022
7 Non-traditional Barriers to Innovation
A friend of mine recently asked me: What do you think are the biggest barriers to innovation? If you look at the literature on...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 14, 2022
The Battle for the World's Attention: Facebook's social graph versus Google's page link
Google's recently reported $100-200 million investment in the company Zynga, the very popular online game company, is their latest...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 12, 2022
Google's App Inventor: More needed duct tape for our digital world
When something gets modular, the opportunity to create many more innovations skyrockets. Hundreds, or thousands or millions of inventors...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 10, 2022
YouTube & The 48th Anniversary of the Visual Global Village
On July 10, 1962, Telstar I was launched, the first communications satellite to transmit live television across the Atlantic. The term...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 9, 2022
Innovations in Control: Do you have the right cost of capital for today's environment?
This post is co-author Joseph Calandro, Jr., author of Applied Value Investing (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2009). One of the most important and...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 7, 2022
Economics of Cognitive Work Part II: Exploring the B2B Paradigm
In a recent blog post I began to explore some ideas concerning the nature and economics of cognitive work in the modern corporation. I...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 6, 2022
People or Machines & Transparency: Twin innovations in service
Esurance.com's current advertising campaign emphasizes the fact that their customers can interact with technology when they don't want to...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 5, 2022
How the iPad is Like the Tesla Roadster
Courtesy of my dear friend Peer Munck (Founder of MunckMix, a music distributor), I just had my first ride in a Tesla Roadster, the...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 5, 2022
The Physicality of Information
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...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 2, 2022
Seeing Around the Corner: Can you know what innovations are coming?
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'". ...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 1, 2022
Should Google Vertically Integrate?
Today, Google announced that it will move into the travel space with its $700 million acquisition of ITA, a flight information software...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 30, 2022
The Economics of Cognitive Work: Some initial ideas
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...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 29, 2022
Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Now Foursquare? The loosely coupled operating system for the web...
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...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 28, 2022
How Barcodes and Smartphones Will Rearchitect Information
Check out my new post at Harvard Business Review which talks about the new physicality of information -- linking marketplace &...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 27, 2022
Can You Draw Your Innovation Process?
A dear friend of mine Barbara Feinberg researched many new product development processes and she helped Kim Clark and Steve Wheelright of...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 26, 2022
Cognitive Continuity: Key to winning in the Marketspace
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...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 25, 2022
Beethoven Had It Right: Let the audience invest
About two months ago I was having a discussion with a senior executive from a world class animation studio about Avatar, James Cameron's...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 23, 2022
Innovations in Attention: The need for filters and feedback.
Howard Greenstein has a nice article on Mashable which notes why content feedback and filters are necessary in social media. We've all...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 19, 2022
What's Your Mind-Diet? Clay Shirky versus Nick Carr
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...
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