At the Padiglione d'arte contemporanea (Pac), near Villa Reale, the Pixar exhibition with a collection of sketchings and documents of a great adventure, started by John Lasseter and Steve Jobs.
The exhibition, promoted by Meet The Media Guru jointly with Lasseter speech, will last in Milan since february 14.
Don't miss it
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12/21/2011
12/09/2011
The Mobile Apps Market
The mobile apps are the must at the moment, but it's not clear how the market is shaped. GDS Infographics (via FastCodesign) now gives some useful insights.
First of all, games are the killer apps. 64% of the people pay for them, and for weather, social networking and news.
Despite the numbers of Android performance, Apple is the undisputed leader, with 300,000 apps available, 12 time more than those in the Android world.
12/01/2011
New award at Syracuse University
Continuum has established a new award at Syracuse University, for recognizing innovation in interdisciplinary design innovation. The Continuum + Arthur Pulos Award will be presented to an exemplary faculty member at SU who has made unique and valuable contributions to interdisciplinary design education. Its name in part honors the late Arthur Pulos, ICSID, FIDSA. Pulos was a globally renowned industrial designer, an early leader of the industrial design profession and a professor and longtime chair of the Department of Design at SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA). He championed the concept that design should act as a bridge across departments and disciplines within a university and within industry.
The recipient of the first award is Don Carr, VPA professor of IID. He will be honored with Zaccai and Continuum at a reception on Thursday, Dec. 15, from 6-8 p.m. at the W New York-Union Square, Studio 1, 201 Park Ave. South, New York City.
In the picture the award designed by Boston and Milan practicioners. All information on the webpage of the project
11/21/2011
Meet your Brand or How to Get the Best Frontline Employees
It's one thing to hire great talent, but it's something else entirely to keep them not only working for you, but to keep them excited about doing it. First impressions are indeed crucial and generally determine the relationship that customers will have with your brand. Drawing upon our various experiences in retail redesign, including work for Sprint and BBVA, Craig LaRosa and Jon Campbell give four tips on how to get the best out of your frontline.
11/16/2011
Design thinking for social innovation
Tim Brown on McKinsey Quarterly suggests to use the design thinkin approach for social issues.
Not only because design thinking is scalable and applied incrementally to better existing ideas, but also because "design thinking is accessible as an approach to innovation in a way that technical R&D is not. It can be applied by people from a broad range of backgrounds to problems ranging from creating new products and services to redesigning business processes, building new brands, and improving communications".
The best way to apply design thinking is to use the human centric design, observing people, asking them, prototyping. In yhis way we contribute to build a more sustainable world.
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11/12/2011
Lara Lee joins Continuum as CIOO
Welcome to Lara Lee, she joins Continuum as Chief Innovation and Operating Officer.
Lara has a more than 20 years experience on lead customer-centric innovation as consultant and corporate manager. In 2006 she was named one of 25 "Master Innovators" in Business Week ranking.
Harry West, CEO of Continuum said: “Lara is a talented manager of people and a clever innovator with an amazing track record in building new service offerings.” Welcome
11/09/2011
Greenwashed
Green produsct represent a big business, for people attention to ealth food is growing.
But for the same reason, we must pay attention to false informations about products. The infographic by Peter Kim summarizes the ways that companies use to greenwash their products
11/04/2011
Go where the lion hunts--a different approach to field research
Gathering inspiration for innovative ideas is no easy task. But instead of simply watching what the market does and responding to what you think the end customer wants, how about going directly to them and figure out what it is that they need? Gianfranco Zaccai maps out his technique in Business Management Daily.
10/26/2011
From Crowd-sourcing to Crowd-Funding: Is it possible for these two concepts to meet?
It should work in theory—the crowd comes up with an idea, and then organise themselves into an enterprise of sorts and then use the same methods to gain funding for the initiative. It’s not as though using the crowd is anything particularly new—crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding initiatives have been in play for the past five years. So why can’t they seem to integrate?
Ideas formulated by crowdsourcing are praised for their innovation and use of collaboration. Those business initiatives funded by the crowd give life to new companies and instantly give their founders the financial support needed. In theory, the true success of the crowd would mean the integration of the two. Yet it appears that the errors made by unsuccessful crowd based initiatives are those that are preventing the integration of crowdsourcing and crowd-funding.
No match between R&D spending and Innovation
A report by consulting firm Booz & Co (via WSJ), says that there is no direct relation between big spending on R&D and effective innovation. Apple, Google and 3M, considered the most innovative companies aren't among the top-20 spenders.
The experts says that is more useful infusing a company with practices that encourage creativity, to obtain innovation.
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, teaching strategy and innovation at Harvard Business School, says that the secret is involving employees to help generate ideas, holding interdepartemental brainstorming sessions, providing web forums or offering funding for creative ideas.
Pfizer promotes meetings between researchers and commercial people, and push employees to attend scientific reviews. In 3M, employees can spend 15% of their time exploring side projects.