mattedgar + innovation 191
Musing gently about the cost of change – confused of calcutta
november 2011 by mattedgar
" An inspection of the ratio between fixed and variable costs for each part of the estate may provide a proxy for the innovation capability of that part of the estate."
change
innovation
costs
november 2011 by mattedgar
InnovationHuebnerTFSC2005.pdf (application/pdf Object)
september 2011 by mattedgar
"In conclusion, the evidence presented indicates that the rate of innovation reached a peak over a
hundred years ago and is now in decline. This decline is most likely due to an economic limit of
technology or a limit of the human brain that we are approaching. We are now approximately 85% of the
way to this limit, and the pace of technological development will diminish with each passing year."
innovation
change
technology
hundred years ago and is now in decline. This decline is most likely due to an economic limit of
technology or a limit of the human brain that we are approaching. We are now approximately 85% of the
way to this limit, and the pace of technological development will diminish with each passing year."
september 2011 by mattedgar
Drop Innovation from Your Vocabulary - Jack Springman - Harvard Business Review
september 2011 by mattedgar
"Over the past ten years, innovation has become an industry in itself. Innovation experts are the first to encourage businesses to be heretical and challenge the widespread assumptions of their industry. Perhaps it is now time to do the same with innovation? Companies that achieve high-growth rates do so because they create increasing value for an increasing number of customers. Focusing on that rather than innovation will increase the likelihood of success. "
innovation
language
customers
focus
september 2011 by mattedgar
A smaller gear, or a stronger steel. « Magical Nihilism
june 2011 by mattedgar
“It was a phenomenon Galileo had noticed before; improvements at the artisanal level passed from workshop to workshop without scholars or princes knowing anything about them, and so it often happened that suddenly workshops everywhere could all make a smaller gear, or a stronger steel.”
technology
innovation
transmission
june 2011 by mattedgar
potlatch: new paper: 'Knowing the Unknowable'
may 2011 by mattedgar
"Locked in a mentality that views the future through the orthodox economistʼs lens of risk, they struggle to make space for engagement with uncertainty..."
innovation
un
certainty
economics
business
management
may 2011 by mattedgar
W. Brian Arthur Vs Silicon Roundabout, ‘Start-Up Britain’ and other shake-and-bake approaches « Magical Nihilism
march 2011 by mattedgar
"Building a capacity for advanced technology is not like planning production in a socialist economy, but more like growing a rock garden. Planting, watering, and weeding are more appropriate than five-year plans."
innovation
london
technology
places
capabilities
march 2011 by mattedgar
Design Thinking Won’t Save You « Helen Walters
march 2011 by mattedgar
"what every organization looking to embrace design as a genuine differentiating factor needs: a business expert who is able to act as a whole hearted champion of the value of design"
design
thinking
salvation
business
innovation
march 2011 by mattedgar
We All Work at Enron Now - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
march 2011 by mattedgar
"The Enron effect is highly hazardous because it lethally poisons incentives. Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. In fact, understating costs and overstating benefits creates disincentives to do that, and creates, instead, incentives to at best rest on your fading laurels forever — and at worst, extract, exploit, purloin, loot, glad-hand, and pass the buck."
business
enron
economics
innovation
incentives
march 2011 by mattedgar
Live Blog: Apple Unveils Thinner, Lighter iPad 2 | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
march 2011 by mattedgar
Steve: “It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough. That it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us with the results”
technology
arts
innovation
apple
march 2011 by mattedgar
Tapping the Innovative Masses - Technology Review
february 2011 by mattedgar
RT @choosenick: UK home brew hackers invent more than all formal R&D spend: [@tomwm]
technology
innovation
consumer
production
design
february 2011 by mattedgar
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Cities of the page
february 2011 by mattedgar
"Jeremiah Dittmar, an American University professor who has been studying the economic consequences of the early diffusion of printing technology, provides a striking visual representation of the print explosion, showing how, over just 50 years, printing presses spread from a single city - Gutenberg's Mainz - to more than 200 cities throughout Europe"
cities
innovation
printing
history
diffision
february 2011 by mattedgar
m.guardian.co.uk
february 2011 by mattedgar
"My grandfather grew up in the 1900s in a world of horse-drawn carts and candle-lit houses. In the following 50 years he would live through a series of astonishing transformations – electricity, the motor car, television and radio, the telephone, the refrigerator, the vacuum-cleaner, penicillin and the aeroplane, just to name a few. It was not just these things that made the 20th century what it was. Their production was industrialised. They created huge employment and wealth.
I grew up in the 1960s and have experienced no such parallel transformations. Certainly, over the past 15 years, the mobile phone and internet have changed the way we all communicate. But the world of the early 2010s is recognisably the same as the early 1960s. The technologies have all incrementally advanced but the artefacts of, say, Mad Men are essentially the same, whereas those in, say, Downton Abbey are not. We live broadly as we did 50 years ago."
change
innovation
history
stagnation
I grew up in the 1960s and have experienced no such parallel transformations. Certainly, over the past 15 years, the mobile phone and internet have changed the way we all communicate. But the world of the early 2010s is recognisably the same as the early 1960s. The technologies have all incrementally advanced but the artefacts of, say, Mad Men are essentially the same, whereas those in, say, Downton Abbey are not. We live broadly as we did 50 years ago."
february 2011 by mattedgar
Telepocalypse by Martin Geddes: A trillion here, a trillion there...
january 2011 by mattedgar
"The Internet is not a medium, it is a meta-medium that allows new media to be created at will."
history
time
innovation
big
technology
january 2011 by mattedgar
UX Week 2010 - Adam Mosseri Video
january 2011 by mattedgar
Data Informed, Not Data Driven
data
research
design
web
facebook
optimisation
innovation
january 2011 by mattedgar
The Local Maximum - 52 Weeks of UX
december 2010 by mattedgar
"In order to design through the local maximum we need a balance between the science-minded testing methodology and the intuitive sense designers use when making big changes. We need to intelligently alternate between innovation and optimization, as both are required to design great user experiences."
design
innovation
testing
user
experience
optimisation
december 2010 by mattedgar
Catalhoyuk: a city with no streets via @genmon - nicolasnova's posterous
november 2010 by mattedgar
RT @fishRpeople2: streets had to be invented: really nice little snippet via @nicolasnova
cities
streets
innovation
places
history
november 2010 by mattedgar
Shanghai IBLAC Speech :: Charles Leadbeater
september 2010 by mattedgar
combination
conversation
challenge
co-evolution
commitment
connection
innovation
cities
rules
tools
culture
conversation
challenge
co-evolution
commitment
connection
september 2010 by mattedgar
russell davies: more faster horse
september 2010 by mattedgar
"Imagine what horses might be like now if science/industry had devoted as much attention to improving them as we've devoted to the internal combustion engine and industrial production. Horses would be INCREDIBLE." Brilliant
android:bookmarks
innovation
user
centred
design
better
horses
september 2010 by mattedgar
leedsLAB » Leeds Lab Inaugural Meeting
august 2010 by mattedgar
RT @mikechitty: #LeedsLab write up is here
leeds
innovation
lab
august 2010 by mattedgar
Measuring Measures - blog - The Next Silicon Valley
august 2010 by mattedgar
"The way to create the next silicon valley is to not try to create the next silicon valley, but to reflect on your city's passions, circumstances, personality and resources, and then innovate accordingly."
business
culture
silicon
valley
innovation
history
technology
startups
august 2010 by mattedgar
NESTA - Driving Innovation in Cities
july 2010 by mattedgar
"Achieving economic growth and recovery when faced with an empty public purse and a radical agenda for devolution mean the need to innovate is greater then ever. So how can cities create an environment in which businesses and the public and third sectors can innovate more, better and faster? How can the new government's agenda enable cities to drive economic growth with innovation?"
places
cities
manchester
innovation
uk
july 2010 by mattedgar
plate and serve
july 2010 by mattedgar
"And I think the golden thread that I can trace right through to service design is a fascination for designed narrative and structure. Creating something that is fully artificial (an argument, a film, a website) which to the reader/viewer/user feels totally organic. A great essay, film, website or service should speak for itself – it doesn’t need description or instruction. I like the idea of doing all the hard work so someone gets something intuitive, polished and seamless. That’s what I try to do for services – take that artificial thing and make it feel natural."
creativity
design
innovation
service
stories
july 2010 by mattedgar
Towards An Innovation Lab for Leeds? « Community Development
june 2010 by mattedgar
RT @mikechitty: Who would you like to see involved in shaping an innovation lab for #Leeds?
leeds
cities
communities
innovation
development
june 2010 by mattedgar
(R)Evolutions In Management Consulting | Forrester Blogs
june 2010 by mattedgar
"The next decade will represent the decade of management consulting innovation, as it's reached its local peak. Consulting service provider strategists are being forced to not only innovate their clients' businesses but their own businesses, too. "
consulting
innovation
dogfood
june 2010 by mattedgar
“Design thinking is a nonsensical phrase that deserves to die” – Don Norman- 90 Percent of Everything
june 2010 by mattedgar
"When I was at Apple, we did a lot of design research [...] We did a lot. We worried about all these fundamental things. We did user studies. We went to people’s homes. [...] You know what Steve jobs did when he arrived? He fired all of us! And guess what resulted? Better products! Which have revolutionized the way we use machines. And he fired the usability groups as well.”
design
thinking
innovation
donnorman
usability
user
experience
june 2010 by mattedgar
Left out in the cold: How tech innovation favors the rich - Computerworld
may 2010 by mattedgar
"It is no surprise then that much of the gadgetry and Web services leaping from the minds of talented young innovators are geared toward young, well-educated, affluent white kids -- people just like them. When was the last time you heard of a groundbreaking tech product targeting seniors, the disabled or young black men?"
android:bookmarks
technology
innovation
wealth
in
equality
may 2010 by mattedgar
Richard Seymour on Eastman Innovation Lab - Core77
may 2010 by mattedgar
"As Richard Seymour sees it, designers by the nature of their work are futurists. "The least time it takes to produce a product and get it on the shelf is a couple of years," he says. "Sometimes it can be 10-15 years. So you're already dealing with the future when you sit at your desk in the morning."
android:bookmarks
design
innovation
future
ism
may 2010 by mattedgar
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/
april 2010 by mattedgar
"For a century, ATT’s culture had prized—insisted on—quality of service. Their HR Department worked to identify potential employees who would be willing to cut corners, but the point of identifying those people was to avoid hiring them. The idea of getting into a business where those would be the ideal employees was heresy. ATT, like most organizations, could not be good at the thing it was good at and good at the opposite thing at the same time. The web hosting business, because it followed the “Simplicity first, quality later” model, didn’t just present a new market, it required new cultural imperatives."
android:bookmarks
business
economics
complexity
media
innovation
history
change
april 2010 by mattedgar
Why Killing ideas Fosters More Innovation - business value & ICT - Telecommunications - Green IT - Orange Business Live blog
march 2010 by mattedgar
"the challenges faced by French start-ups with regard to the financing of the early innovation phase and the managing of partnerships with major corporations,"
innovation
partnerships
scale
start-ups
march 2010 by mattedgar
Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”
march 2010 by mattedgar
He comes back to the simple fact that the open Web is where the users are. Talking about paywalls and paid apps is like saying, “We know where the market is and we are not going to go there.” Print newspapers and magazines will never get there, he argues, until they burn the boats and shut down their print operations.
android:bookmarks
media
internet
newspapers
print
innovation
ipad
march 2010 by mattedgar
Imran Ali: Ideas for Cities
february 2010 by mattedgar
"cities, and our understanding of the of a city, are critical to this, and other wider projects. There's a subtext of anti-urbanism that lingers in British culture, yet cities as social and physical constructs carry within them the seeds of prosperity, happiness and almost counter-intuitively, the "green-ness" that most of us seek. Also, for Brits, we identify more closely with cities than city regions, counties or the home nations."
android:bookmarks
cities
leeds
urban
renewal
innovation
february 2010 by mattedgar
Choosenick! » Front book vs back book pricing: The service marketing conundrum and what it means for service designers
january 2010 by mattedgar
"Secondly, there is strong pressure from 'the business' (a mythical money minded part of the organisation that all the other teams always talk about), to maintain margins, and not to give up more profitable customers."
innovation
marketing
service
design
january 2010 by mattedgar
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