Monthly Archives: June 2005

US Energy Map

Here’s a great example of how to use a graphic to convey a ton of information. It shows all the sources and uses of energy consumed by the US, and how much of it is lost, in a single picture. … Continue reading

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Saturday Links: Collaboration, Books, Wilderness, Music, Photography, Politics & Gaia Theory

How Good Collaborations Happen: Please take 10 minutes to complete this survey on collaboration, which I collaborated in developing. My colleagues and I really need your responses to this for some research we’re doing on the collaboration process. Thank you! … Continue reading

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A Methodology for Customer-Driven Innovation (continued)

In yesterday’s post, I proposed a methodology for customer-driven innovation that draws on the work of three groups (a) Christensen’s and Carr’s work on the four types of innovation, (b) Doblin Group’s ten ways to innovate, and (c) Chan and … Continue reading

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Strategy Canvases, Top-Down Disruptions, and a Methodology for Customer-Driven Innovation

Last week I wrote about disruptive innovation as described in Clay Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Solution, and lamented that, although Christensen provides a variety of tools and techniques for innovation his methodology lacks an approach to the lateral thinking or … Continue reading

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‘A Nation Wired for Everything Except the Truth’

This is a dark post about human nature and our aversion to facing awful truths. It is not appropriate for children, and the squeamish may also want to give it a pass. The title of this article is a quote … Continue reading

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It’s All About Attention

We’re designed and indoctrinated to pay attention to the here and now, what’s urgent and consistent with our worldview, not what’s important and complex and far away. And it usually takes pain, a shock to the system, a wake-up call, … Continue reading

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Breakfast with Dave Snowden – Part Two

Continuing from Friday’s post, here are some additional highlights of Dave Snowden’s recent breakfast presentation on narrative, cultural anthropology, social networks, complexity in business, and all that stuff, with substantial embellishments from me, some of which are based on conversations … Continue reading

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Is There Hope for Humanity?: A Conversation

I’m beginning to appreciate that conversations are useful ways to explore ideas even if they’re with yourself. So here’s some more thinking out loud between my two schizophrenic halves, Dave the Idealist and Dave the Skeptic, on the subject of … Continue reading

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Odds and Ends

Popularity tracking of How to Save the World weblog Dave’s Contest Winners: As promised, I’ve selected three winning linkers to How to Save the World to commemorate my 1000th inbound linking source per Technorati. At the end of May, I … Continue reading

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Breakfast with Dave Snowden and an Epiphany

A synopsis of a recent breakfast meeting with Dave Snowden, head of the Cynefin Centre and thought leader on complex systems and narrative and their application in business. Last week I attended a breakfast presentation by Dave Snowden of the … Continue reading

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