Guest Thinkers

Enjoyed this clever “evolution of advertising” image — the Don Drapers of the world are thinking about the next bottle of champagne, not about PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat. [image: Career […]

At the end of the day, any industry can be thought of as an ecosystem. In this compelling presentation, social media strategist Jeremiah Owyang suggests that the social web can […]

Within the Web 2.0 world, there’s been a lot of buzz about “unlocking” content so that it is free to travel across the social Web. With that in mind, I’ve […]

These are Darwinian times, in which only the fastest and strongest survive. With that in mind, Google has partnered with London Business School and the Daily Telegraph in the U.K. […]

Ever wanted to become part of a collaborative Internet community where individuals, experts and companies come together to transform ideas into true innovation? Taking advantage of the buzz surrounding crowdsourcing […]

As the economic recession continues to take a bigger and bigger toll on people’s livelihoods, a number of companies are stepping up with new promotions that seek to reduce some […]

The recent skirmish between Apple and Google — filled with legal inuendos, regulatory scuffles and high-profile departures — has, if anything, crystallized for me what I had been thinking for […]

As we roll into another summer weekend, here are some of the best innovation links for the week of July 27 – July 31: Deconstructing the Wildly-Popular YouTube Wedding Video […]

In her latest “visual column” for the New York Times, the always-inspiring Maira Kalman documents the many innovations of Benjamin Franklin. The question is not what did Franklin invent, but […]

The Silver Lining, a new strategy book from innovation guru Scott Anthony at Cambridge-based Innosight, is a valuable playbook for bringing disruptive innovation into the enterprise at a time when […]

New York Times R&D; Group: Moving the news into your living room from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo. In a push to regain favor with advertisers and Wall Street analysts, […]

Sequence the human genome. Been there, done that. Genomics pioneer Craig Venter is now moving on to a colossal new project to develop and produce new second-generation biofuels from algae. […]

The July/August “Ideas” issue of The Atlantic (still available on some newsstands) is chock-full of innovation goodness, including one of the best-written articles that I’ve read in some time about […]

Speaking of the evolution of industries, I couldn’t pass up this example of the upside-down flying goose. This is what innovation looks like in the wild. In this case, the […]

Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money is a first-rate historical study of the growth of the modern financial system — and a look ahead at what might happen now that […]

n In the current issue of strategy + business magazine, Christopher Vollmer, a partner with Booz & Company in New York City, comments on the “digital Darwinism” that is reshaping […]

Convert Design Evolution from tap tap tap on Vimeo. The product development process is, if nothing else, a highly iterative process. In this fascinating two-minute clip from tap tap tap, […]

One of my favorite trend-watching e-newsletters has always been Jeremy Gutsche’s Trend Hunter – a site chock full of innovation that always seems to have its hand on the pulse […]

After a long 10-month period in which the word “innovation” seemed to be deleted entirely from the lexicon of Corporate America’s middle managers and top executives, I’ve been spotting more […]

Even during a recession, pockets of innovation are forming across the country. Business Week recently put together a great pictorial feature on 75 of America’s Most Promising Start Ups. Some […]

Spurred by the growing mass-market acceptance of the Kindle e-book reader and the launch of the 800-pound Espresso print-on-demand machine, the publishing world is continuing to evolve in response to […]

Without a doubt, Bruce Sterling is one of the leading visionary thinkers helping to shape the future of innovation. Ever since the 1970s, he’s been imagining the future and sharing […]

n Pop!Tech 2008 Visualization from Tom Wujec on Vimeo. Over at Mashable, Josh Catone has compiled a great list of the Top 7 Places to Watch Great Minds in Action. […]

Throughout 2009, Starbucks has been making waves about how much it is changing in response to new consumer spending patterns. First, it was the announcement that it planned to revisit […]

n Browsing the local magazine newsstand over the weekend, I was struck by how many “Dangerous Ideas” are out there in the business, political and cultural worlds, ready for public […]

At first glance, this futuristic Mission One Superbike looks like a cross between Batman’s tricked-out motorcycle from The Dark Knight and something from an Extreme X Games competition. In reality, […]

The Internet recently celebrated its 40th anniversary — although to many of us in the social media world it feels like the Internet was just born yesterday. In many ways, […]

n So many business terms that we take for granted – like “survival of the fittest” – are actually based on Charles Darwin’s seminal work on the ways that species […]

In almost two weeks, comedian Jay Leno will be making his debut on a live comedy show to air at 10 pm. Not content to rest on his laurels, Jay […]

n Within the tech world, the explosive growth of Twitter has (literally) been front page news over the past six months, with Twitter appearing on the cover of TIME Magazine […]