By Mark Howell, on June 20th, 2010
I am a big fan of creativity and this video is sheer creativity. This video won best music video at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. You can check out the other award winners right here. (Thanks to Brad Lomenick for sharing this earlier in the week)
Look what you can do with a little [...]
By Mark Howell, on May 17th, 2010
Picked up a new book this week in my ongoing search for innovation ideas and strategies. Innovation X, by Adam Richardson came to the top of the stack. 30 pages in, this is going to be a great addition to my thinking.
A creative director at frog design, Richardson has worked with companies like HP, Intel, [...]
By Mark Howell, on April 13th, 2010
Think about the programs and products you are currently offering. Think about the experiences you are currently offering to your customers. The services that product brands provide to their current customers were designed and developed to satisfy the lifestyle and values of their past customers.I know you might struggle to think about what you offer [...]
By Mark Howell, on January 26th, 2010
How tuned in is your organization? I asked a friend who had just moved to a new organization, “How’s the new reality?” He said, “To borrow a phrase from Leonard Sweet, I live in the Google Era, but my work environment is Gutenberg Era.”
Makes you think, doesn’t it? How many of our organizations are operating [...]
By Mark Howell, on January 11th, 2010
I don’t know about you, but I love a really cool logo. Tripped across this collection over at creativefan.com today and thought you might want to check it out. My personal favorite? Check it out…and be inspired.
By Mark Howell, on January 5th, 2010
One of the blogs I read almost everyday is Gaping Void by Hugh MacLeod. Word of warning…sometimes often profane. At the same time, Hugh’s insight is very keen. Not every post or cartoon is dead on, but a lot of them are. There are definitely times when you just have to nod your head. There [...]
By Mark Howell, on December 8th, 2009
“To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing.”
That line seems like a no-brainer. Obvious. And yet, when I heard Craig Groeschel say that at Willow’s Leadership Summit last year I scrambled to write it down and then had trouble thinking about anything else for the rest [...]
By Mark Howell, on December 3rd, 2009
How does arriving where you’ve already been sound? Depends I guess. If you like where you’ve been, you might want to go there again. After all, there are places we’ve been that we love going back to. At the same time, as a metaphor for vision…most of us are dreaming of arriving somewhere we’ve never [...]
By Mark Howell, on December 1st, 2009
Keeping an eye on the effectiveness of strategy is essential. Clarifying what a win is and launching strategic steps designed to produce that win are essential to organizational success. Evaluating effectiveness is just as important.
Have you ever slowed down long enough to evaluate whether your strategy is actually working? Most organizations never really get around [...]
By Mark Howell, on November 23rd, 2009
One of the key concepts in Roger Martin’s The Design of Business is the notion that the pursuit of reliable or predictable results keeps many organizations from the kind of exploration that pursues the next opportunity (or the more current opportunity). This is big for all of us, but to really catch the significance you [...]
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