The Impact of Initial Design

May 18, 2020 There’s a difference between wanting to check your email, Facebook notifications and spending your time well. Years ago business people were addicted to Blackberries, now they are addicted to their iPhone. Today designers need to consider the downstream...

Is Your Business Approaching a Tipping Point?

In the late 70’s Tandy/Radio Shack, Texas Instruments and Apple had the beginnings of a personal computer. Most were used for gaming and personal empowerment but most business people didn’t see the value add. It was a toy for hobbyists, hackers, and nerds. The tipping...

Going Against the Grain

Joe Ricketts built Ameritrade which merged with Toronto-Dominion and is now TD Ameritrade. Back in the 80’s he was frustrated with the clunky PC’s and floppy disks that customers had to install on their own to process stock orders. So he did something different –...

Has Your Business Outgrown Narrow AI?

Narrow AI works fine for chess or the game of Go because there are a defined set of rules to follow and multiple game scenarios that can be run to fine tune the best strategies/outcome. The rub comes with general AI where the rules are not so defined. For example, why...

Gain Real Value with Step Innovation

Most people think of innovation as a ground breaking, disrupting event but in reality there are different types of innovation. Making something better does not require a clean-sheet approach to create – take your current baseline and innovate in steps to get value add...