innovation

June 28, 2016

Creativity: The Final Competitive Advantage

  By Doug Stephens   Right now your company is very likely sitting on a corporate asset of immeasurable value. It’s more precious than all the […]
June 12, 2014

If You Don’t Understand Why Apple Bought Beats That’s A Good Thing

By Doug Stephens I read an intriguing article this morning by Denise Lee Yohn that asks the provocative question: Is the Apple Corporation we once knew […]
May 10, 2013

Incremental Change In Exponential Times

By Doug Stephens   Over the last holiday shopping season, Amazon was clocking in 306 transactions per second!  Photo app Instagram achieved a market value of […]
February 1, 2013

Why The Best Brands Give Customers What They Hate

By Doug Stephens Human beings are fundamentally resistant to change.  Most of us would be happy carrying on with an as-is world that is largely free […]
October 12, 2011

How Not to Survive the Future

By Doug Stephens Today I came across this ad from the United States Postal Service.  They’ve adopted a self-preservation strategy that attempts to convince us that […]
October 20, 2010

Ideas Run Faster Than Money

By Doug Stephens If you saw the movie The Social Network, then you may remember the scene where Mark Zuckerberg’s character, says to his business partner, […]