We can learn from our successes just as much as we can from our failures. So, I'd like to see a switch from Failure Chic to Learning Chic.
I predict failure (compared to revenue from previous versions): Rock Band 3 uses “real” guitar and keyboard. Guitar Hero worked because it was just hard enough to appeal to everyone who always wished they’d learned guitar, as well as all the people who already knew how to play guitar (but not video games). They...
The Internet changes everything. Also: water is wet, and Conan O’Brien is ridiculously tall. Seriously, if you haven’t realized that yet, just go back to living in your cave. If your product can be turned into ones and zeroes, your existing business model doesn’t work anymore. Your strategy probably relies on scarcity of physical...
I work for a big corporation. As with most big companies, the corporate hierachy is pretty tall. That makes it a bit tough to create and/or maintain a culture of innovation: politics and title are usually more influential than a good idea. But blaming management for not accepting your brilliant idea is a cop-out....
We’re all connected. We have the entire sum of human genius and misery at our fingertips. Given that, I’m constantly befuddled by people who don’t at least try to understand the whole, rather than just the parts. You have to understand the context of a thing to do anything with it. So, since this is all...
Visual thinking for the day Ok, so, big corporations are… well, big. Brilliant insight, I know. Bear with me. They’re big, change-resisting, money-making machines. But, at some point they were small, nimble and entrepreneurial. Jujitsu is a martial art based on the idea of ”using an attacker’s energy against him, rather than directly opposing...