by Alan | Jul 30, 2013 | Big Ideas, Compelling Value, Customer Experience, Just for Fun, Unlocking Genius
Greetings from Sweden where innovation is almost everywhere. Today I’d like to share a few observations about public transportation and its role in Swedish life… As one might imagine, public transportation is more widely used here than in the U.S. where...
by Alan | Jul 23, 2013 | Big Ideas, Books, Customer Experience, Just for Fun, Unlocking Genius
Greetings. We often think about libraries as very quiet places for contemplation, exploration, discovering new ideas and new possibilities, and sparking our true imaginations. But what if we also think of them as places where loud and dramatic learning comes alive as...
by Alan | Jul 18, 2013 | Big Ideas, Compelling Value, Just for Fun, Marketing and Sales
Greetings. The recent ad campaign for the new Adidas “Spring Blade” running shoe made it seem remarkable. In fact, I started to imagine that this might be the greatest innovation in the history and science of running since the actual invention of the shoe...
by Alan | Jul 11, 2013 | Big Ideas, Compelling Value, Just for Fun, Marketing and Sales, Unlocking Genius
Greetings. It turns out that reinventing the wheel or simply making a good thing a lot better is not so easy to do. Our companies often get a bit too comfortable with business as usual, and as customers we often get a bit too too comfortable with the products and...
by Alan | Jul 4, 2013 | Big Ideas, Just for Fun, Unlocking Genius
Greetings. Today is the Fourth of July and a perfect opportunity to pause at least for a day and count the many blessings we have as Americans. A time to recall the day back in 1776 when our forefathers and foremothers crafted a declaration that would inspire the...
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