Let’s put Lytro down in the “innovation does not necessarily mean adoption” category. The ‘light field’ camera enables user to forget about focussing because every point will be in focus such that you can adjust foreground, background, depth of field and they say even instant 3D with the benefit of hindsight. Is this something that humans […]
Passion is the Best Strategy : The Soul of Entrepreneurship Lives
I’ve had the pleasure of working with a traditional start up in the food industry. The person behind this organization is an inspiration. A true entrepreneur. It’s easy to come up with reasons not to pursue an idea. Extremely hard to trust your intelligence and instinct to go for it. Visiting the warehouse I felt that […]
Innovation Story – Exit strategy built in!
Several years ago a friend ‘leaked’ some details about a novel brick making system that was in development. He couldn’t tell me much beyond the IP was being filed and the prototype worked. Fast forward 5 years and I happen to run into that friend. After catching up on everything else I asked about this […]
Google’s Think Quarterly : Think Quick, short pieces but good
This came through awhile ago and I slowly started clicking through the articles. They’re good. They’re quick. In particular this was meaty…ROUTE TO 2015 http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/quarterly/innovation/route-to-2015.html More foder in support of Chief Marketing Technologist since the CMO may not have the data and tech skills required for the coming onslaught of data. Let’s hope insights are […]
Lunch with OpenGovWest, City of Van, Van Trash and other people intersted in OpenData
It was an extreme pleasure to join the OpenGovWest team along with other interested parties at City Hall last friday. We had great conversation along with great cupcakes. With diverse stakeholders from the City’s IT team to Entrepreneurs to Community Representatives to Digital Archivists, it was an engaging conversation. The one tremendous success story is the […]
GrowLab is into your Big Idea!
This came across my inbox and I am, for lack of a better word, stoked. This is just the sort of local and international network development that Vancouver needs to continue our stellar start up history. http://www.growlab.ca/ Tweet
Hootsuite Analytics: compiling free sources into paid services
If 2010 was the year of the business model, then 2011 is off to a good start in terms of metrics and revenue streams. Hootsuite continues to lead the charge with ‘Social Analytics’. HootSuite Social Analytics from HootSuite on Vimeo. It’s great to get all the inputs into one place and have some means of […]
Business can’t be good, unless business is doing good
heya, Just a random thought, well, not that random, something that I’ve been thinking about. This is the best means of disrupting established players who aren’t ‘doing good’ with their business. Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility is the key. Bringing more than your cash to the party is required. Sorry CIBC Run for the Cure, that […]
RWW: REAL Wide Web
I couldn’t convince my team to go with this concept when pitching to Yahoo for some innovation concepts. The time may have come, or frankly it has come to users, that we can finally interact with our web and world. Bless my Android for the voice activation search that provided us with the late night […]
EMPATHESIS : integrating an intimate understanding into an action, output or solution
I’ve been thinking about empathy a lot recently. This something that distinguishes pyschopaths and innovators alike so it’s gets a lot of press. Empathy is all well and good, heck it makes us human. To make something from intimate understanding that empathy provides is what I am today defining as ‘Empathesis’. Sympathy, is rooted in […]