Put Business in Context
An introduction to business for tech professionals. Don’t make a product. Make a difference.
innovation strategy
Find the Future First, part 3
How do we explore our known unknowns? In this final installment, you will conclude with the four quadrants of trend forecasting, to explore the intersections of possible futures. If the video is not appearing here please follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEwGt91yo58
Platforms Cultivate Ecosystems
Fight your inner Steve Jobs. Build partnerships. Share the glory.
Platforms Challenge Conventional Wisdom
Learn from GE Aviation. Bring diverse thinkers into your design team. Unshackle your thinking from what YOU believe you do. Discover what your customers really NEED. Challenge convention. Redefine the problem to create a more valuable, disruptive platform innovation. If you have difficulty viewing this video, see it on youtube here.
Build Foundations: Platform Design
Connecting coasts and continents, the modern era was built on universal platform design.
The Sixth Wave
The future is already here. Welcome to the age of data, the eon of aeon.
The Fifth Wave: Free Markets
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The Fourth Wave: Freedom
From time immemorial, our forbears lived under the boot of another. A monarch, a chieftain, a sheik. All overlords take power by force, and impose authority by violence. Might makes wrong. #TimesUp!
The Second Wave: Mathematics
As a second form of language, numbers allow us to understand our world and share that knowledge in a perfect symbology that transcends time
Ignore Your Competitors
Why ignore your competitors? Because you outpace them by studying tomorrow’s customers.
Roger Mader 