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Koen van der Wal  has a nice post where he mentions about Josephine Green, Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips Design and her philosophy to design in Philips.

Josephine talks about the importance of linking technological innovation with social innovation for maximum impact. Here a...

Saffo writes:

The web is at the centre of an emergent personal media revolution in the same way as TV in the 1950s was at the centre of mass media revolution that shaped the latter half of the 20th century.

From mass to personal media (key differences)

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Here's a very interesting article from Business Week where C K Prahalad argues about the ingenuity of companies serving customers in developing economies and how they can eventually challenge global companies.

Here are some excerpts:

View those same streets through the eyes of C.K. Prahalad, however,...

Economic Times writes:

Car makers are aggressively promoting cars as entertainment centres. “That trend is definitely growing,” JD Power’s Larry Wu said, adding that the lag time for adopting new technology in cars is much shorter than it used to be, though still a far cry from the speed of the consu...

Marketing Vox writes:

A technology startup is offering answers to questions from business travelers who have no access to the internet, writes The New York Times (via MediaBuyerPlanner). Users can register at AskMeNow and download free software onto a cellphone or BlackBerry. They can then call a tol...

NY times writes:

The biggest trend expected at the International Consumer Electronics Show, which begins this week in Las Vegas, is that these machines will be communicating with one another. The theme of this year's show might best be described as Convergence: This Time We Mean It.

• Consumers will fin...

The Economic Times writes:

Get set for the drive of your life for 21st century cars are going to be as intelligent as human beings!

The technology that is going to rule the automotive creations in the 21st century would have senses, similar to human beings. "It will have emotions, intelligence a...

Fast Company has a very insightful article on customer-driven research & development at AT&T Customer Expectations  Research Lab. A group of 40 PHDs are in search of fundamental truths about ways in which people adapt to new technologies. Physicist Greg Blonder has this to say about new...

P&G website makes this point on consumer driven innovation(CDI):

We’re also changing the way we innovate. Big ideas are no longer the exclusive domain of big Research & Development departments – up to 30% of patents are now filed by small companies and entrepreneurs. Today’s ideas are widely ...

Dave Young writes:

1. Don't expect your customers to provide referrals or word of mouth unless your employees and your products are exceeding expectations. Give them the pure oxygen of delight.
2. Don't expect your employees to provide delight to your customers unless their own needs are being met. Give th...