Why the Apple iPhone 4 May Change Communication
All true breakthroughs in an art form come when there is a change in perspective. Some say that Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 16, 2022
Innovations in Interface: Guitar Band and Dance Central
Harmonix, the people who brought you the ever popular game Rock Band, have now created two interesting innovations in technology...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 16, 2022
It’s Time to Reinvent Knowledge Work
Dr. Robert Ballard and his team have used robots to explore the mid-Atlantic ridge where our earth births her new "skin" by oozing out...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 14, 2022
Used = Green: Environmentally friendly demand creation
One way to effectively market while being friendly to the environment is to facilitate the market in used goods. When I was a kid my...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 13, 2022
Innovation Lessons From BP's Misery
The ongoing tragedy of BP's well disaster makes me both sad and mad at the same time, and I've been trying to think if there is anything...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 12, 2022
Digital Innovation in Social Space: The Patriot's Jumbo, Jumbotron
The New England Patriots are installing a 164 x 41.5 foot high definition television for this upcoming season, which is puny compared to...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 11, 2022
Innovations in Listening to the Market: eBay could do better...
eBay recently guided Wall Street to lower numbers. I'm always amazed that eBay can't grow faster because they have lots of information...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 11, 2022
Power to the Edge
The four fundamental principles of the agile, "edge-based" organization are situational awareness, skills, values, and decision rights....
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 10, 2022
Innovating at Scale in a Successful Company: What Microsoft Could Learn from Lo
Large successful organizations have a hard time creating large scale innovations. When a company's on the brink of death, they entertain...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 9, 2022
Are You Worldclass Online? Seven principles to think about...
The other day I was talking with my partner Jamie Yoder about a client who was asking him: What does it mean to be a world class online...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 8, 2022
Creating Customer Communities: Two different innovations in conversation
Valaria Moltoni, scion of the site Conversation Agent, has advocated (as many other have too) that you can benefit from creating...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 7, 2022
You Robot: An innovation in conversations?
I have been a big believer in the idea that we need to reinvent the meeting. Seth Godin wrote an interesting post about how to use the...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 5, 2022
Intel & Vice: Innovation where hip meets bits, and the Digital Gift meets art
It always amazes me how the most creative folks often have one part of their radical plan which is very old style and conservative. In...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 5, 2022
Speed Selling & Innovation: Lessons from the master
I want to post some additional thoughts about Gordon Bell's comments on my previous post on speed selling and innovation. For those of...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 4, 2022
The Importance of The Sales Cycle in Getting an Innovation Off the Ground
Time hurts all deals. -- Anonymous A key reason innovations fail is that inventors neglect to correctly assess how long it takes to sell...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 3, 2022
Innovations in Use: Is the iPad to computers as transistors were to radios?
A few days ago the iPad just passed 2,000,000 units in sales in under 60 days. Why is that? I think its because the device allows...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 2, 2022
Innovation and "Noble Failure": Lessons from Dave Pottruck
My dear friend Dave Pottruck was co-CEO at Charles Schwab (along with Chuck himself) when they reinvented themselves from being just a...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 1, 2022
Why Amazon Will Innovate Past Kindle and Microsoft's Bing Will Never Win
When I bought my iPad it was very easy to download my new Kindle application to read all my books I bought on Amazon, and I'm sure that...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 31, 2022
Why Innovation Struggles: The triumph of explication over imagination
The ancient Oxford College All Souls, founded in 1438, has since 1932 been giving a one word exam as part of a two day battery of...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 30, 2022
Blue Water Thinking: Why deep innovation is so hard
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. -- Albert Einstein Deep innovation is really hard. If you have ever...
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