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Process Fosters Innovation at Google

Whether you’re an operational executive, or a creative director, one of your goals is to push out  forward-thinking, innovative work. But is process the antithesis of creativity? Is discipline a dirty word? Not at all. For a while, Google as been synonymous with innovation. The company famously lets its engineers spend one day a week [...]

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links for 03-24-08

links for 03-24-08

Empty spaces exposed. Labelscar is a blog that finds beauty in deserted shopping malls — the elegance of ugly commerce. [via cool hunting] China Orders Video Web Sites to Close. “China will shut down video-sharing Web sites for carrying content … Chinese Web surfers were blocked from seeing foreign sites with video about protests in [...]

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Sony’s Customer Centric (Re)organization

Sony’s Customer Centric (Re)organization

[From Forrester's 2007 Marketing Forum] What does SpiderMan 3 have to do with customer-centricity? A lot if you’re Sony Electronics CMO Michael Fasulo, who spoke today on the mainstage with Senior Analyst Brian Haven. That’s because Sony’s large, global family of diverse brands, from Vaio to Sony Pictures, presents an organizational hurdle towards customer centricity. [...]

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Top Sites in the US, 10/26/06

Some of the most popular sites are the most fugly. It makes me feel good about my dorky-looking blog. :) http://www.ebay.com/http://amazon.com/http://www.facebook.com/http://www.comcast.nethttp://imdb.com/http://www.weather.comhttp://sportsline.com/

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I never thought Celine Dion and I would agree on anything…

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. Here’s some Puccini for you, Aretha Franklin style.

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Links and News, Sept. 14, 2006

Links and News, Sept. 14, 2006

1) Google, the philanthropist — apparently Google will be FOR profit, not a non-prof, more of a venture-capitalist patterning sub-company than a foundation. And to me that sounds Fantastic. This comes at a time where the US Government seems to stifle scientific and technological advancement rather than support it. If Google can fund startups and [...]

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