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Social innovation, social inclusion
Posted on August 27, 2015 4 Comments
Social innovation is about bringing new ideas, products and services out into society with others for social benefit and improving the lives of our communities. While not every innovation will benefit everyone, there is a need to examine more deeply the question of who benefits(?) when we consider social innovation and that means taking some […]
Beyond the Big and New: Innovating on Quality
Posted on May 1, 2014 6 Comments
Innovation is a term commonly associated with ‘new’ and sparkly products and things, but that quest for the bigger and more shiny in what we do often obscures the true innovative potential within systems. Rethinking what we mean by innovation and considering the role that quality plays might help us determine whether bigger and glossy […]
Acting on Failure or Failure to Act?
Posted on April 8, 2014 2 Comments
Who would have thought that failure would be held up as something to be desired just a few years ago? Yet, it is one thing to extol the virtues of failure in words, it is quite another to create systems that support failure in action and if the latter doesn’t follow the former, failure will […]
Isolation: The New Innovator’s Dilemma
Posted on March 27, 2014
Innovators transform the world around them in big and small ways and while a successful effort can be lauded by pundits, politicians and the public there is a long road to making change happen. That road is also a lonely one and doing things different means more than just innovating and experiencing what it means to be […]
Developmental Design and The Innovator’s Mindset
Posted on August 16, 2013 5 Comments
Blackberry, once the ‘must have’ device is no longer so and may no longer even exist. Looking back on how the mighty device maker stumbled the failure is attributed to what was done and not done, but I would argue it is more about what was unseen and not thought. Ignorance of the past, present […]
Social Insularity and the Not-So-Wide World Web
Posted on July 16, 2010
The Internet holds promise of connecting people together in diverse celebration of knowledge. This dream hasn’t been realized and may not be unless we transform our technological networking tools with our psycho-social tools.
The iPad and True Social Computing
Posted on June 24, 2010 8 Comments
The iPad may be the first truly social computer. In this post I explain why.
