competition

August 14, 2008

Creativity, Competition and Strategy

Good quotes often come from unexpected sources. Yesterday one of my sons came home with a sheet setting out the teaching philosophy of his drum instructor, in which I found the following gem about the importance of passion:

strategy, creativity, competition, Sigurd Rinde

June 23, 2008

Should You Build Your Business Strategy Like Doing 'Tai Chi' - It's Non-linear, Adaptive and Is All Judo-Economics

by: Idris Mootee

Strategic planning today is seldom strategic. Many companies label their operations meeting as strategic planning. 90% of the times they use a top-down formal process of articulating a vision and translate that to actions, assuming the word “freeze” while they execute.

competition, strategy, strategic planning, Tai Chi, Idris Mootee

June 5, 2008

Steelcase Second Life Chair Design Competition

by: Design Translator

Wow, this competition totally went under my radar. I would not have caught wind of this if I did not get my usual dose of virtual goodness at rebang. In fact it was his 10th post in his RSS feed and probably would have fallen off into internet oblivion if I had visited his site some other time.

reward, industrial design, design, crowdsourcing, competition, Steelcase, Second Life, Design Translator

February 4, 2008

Customer Experience Innovation and Growth - Summit Presentation

by: Idris Mootee

competition, strategy, presentation, Idris Mootee, innovation, growth

November 30, 2007

New Study Shows Link Between Advertising and Economic Growth

by: Scott Goodson

competition, AdVantage, study, innovation, economic growth, advertising, Scott Goodson

June 29, 2007

Coca-Cola 2.0

by: C. Sven Johnson

I just got off the phone with Coca-Cola’s David Vanderpoel. You might recall his earlier comment regarding the Coca-Cola VirtualThirst campaign in Second Life that came as a result of my critique of the competition rules.

If you’ve not read my earlier post (reLink), here’s the back story:

Sven Johnson, Second Life, Coca-Cola, virtual worlds, online, gaming, competition, campaign

May 4, 2007

Coke virtual thirst - update

by: Stefan Kolle (via Business & Games)

in-game advertising, gaming, copyright, competition, Stefan Kolle, Second Life, Coca-Cola, video, reward, virtual worlds, online, legal

April 20, 2007

Free Radical Tregs and Staples

by: C. Sven Johnson

I recently used the scientific term “free radical” to describe a blogger whose writing I enjoy. I used that descriptor to mean someone who doesn’t think about issues and problems the way others studying them might. It is, in my opinion, a very designer thing; and I don’t mean that in the applied arts context.

Sven Johnson, Staple, reward, people, open innovation, licensing, innovation, design, competition

April 20, 2007

Coke Virtual Thirst: A for effort, C- for execution

By: Stefan Kolle

Coca-Cola has launched a contest to design a virtual experience vending machine. Also see the press release here. My co-contributor Karl Long already wrote a fairly positive review, but I'm afraid I have to add some negative points of view here.