Turkish Garanti Bank lets customer fully personalize their Visa cards!
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Garanti Bank's Flexi Cards allow customers to personalize the look of their bank cards. But Garanti takes the concept a bit further: customers can dev ... read more
30/09/2006 | 08:10 am
Waiterless restaurant opened in New York
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The hottest new eatery in New York won't get rave reviews for fine service provided by its waiters. It doesn't have any. Nor does Bamn! have tables, c ... read more
Some time ago I wrote an article laying out the difference between invention and innovation, and it was quite popular. I think the reason behind it is ... read more
28/09/2006 | 10:05 pm
10 tips to boost your personal creativity by Paul Sloane
You want to come up with some really creative ideas. What can you do? Here are ten great practical ways to boost your inventiveness and to crack the p ... read more
28/09/2006 | 07:43 am
Customer intimacy and empathy are keys to innovation
Just because a company is spending money on research (such as markets, customers, or new technologies) and development doesn't mean they will get inno ... read more
27/09/2006 | 07:32 am
Nifty after Fifty wellness center tones the entire senior, along with a healthy dose of socializing
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WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Matures already have a department store, c-store and pharmacy designed for them. Now comes Nifty after Fifty, a senior wellness ... read more
Pouvoir manger sans grossir, est un rêve qui séduirait un bon nombre de personnes. Selon le journal Le Figaro du 3 août dernier, une équipe de cherche ... read more
Companies have been outsourcing to India and China for years. Now they are taking it to another level by using social networks such as MySpace, Second ... read more
25/09/2006 | 09:10 am
Eight rules to brilliant brainstorming
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We all know that many great innovations have once started in a room full of people brainstorming away to discover the next business breakthrough. Here ... read more
American-owned food group Sara Lee is going back to basics with a new marketing campaign designed to remind food lovers of the joys of eating – shirki ... read more
While attitudes, perceptions and behavior continually evolve into trends and as individuals, the nation and the world adjust to change, some trends be ... read more
Soixante ans après la Vespa, Piaggio lance aujourd'hui sur le marché français le MP3, un scooter à trois roues. Son nom fait référence au Moto Piaggio ... read more
22/09/2006 | 07:30 am
Can Stephon Marbury's $15 sneaker revolutionize the sports-shoe business?
A quote question on the blog of Slate.
Star-endorsed basketball shoes have long been one of the great rip-offs in footwear. Nike wants $130 for a ... read more
21/09/2006 | 12:01 pm
101 ways to brew up a great idea
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Scott Baradell, writing in the Marketing Profs: Daily Fix Blog, recently shared a list of 101 ways to come up with a great idea - stolen from the side ... read more
Chupa Chups, le spécialiste de la confiserie, lance sa collection de prêt-à-porter pour les filles inspirée de son univers. La collection printemps-ét ... read more
20/09/2006 | 04:17 pm
Innovation in board games
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Philips is ready to put the funk back into Internationale Funkausstellung, where at this year's consumer electronics show in Berlin (Sept. 1 - 6), it ... read more
Large firms often have trouble getting and maintaining traction for their innovation initiatives, because they have existing customers to serve and pr ... read more
20/09/2006 | 08:15 am
LumaLive: Light-emitting textiles
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At the IFA 2006 consumer electronics trade show in Berlin, Philips showcased a cool new technology known as LumaLive that enables garment makers to em ... read more
19/09/2006 | 12:01 pm
EU launches ambitious new 10-point innovation plan
The European Commission has launched an ambitious 10-point innovation plan which calls for urgent action at regional, national and European levels and ... read more
Mediacart (www.mediacart.com) est un écran haute résolution disposé à l'extrémité des caddies qui permet de diffuser des publicités et des promotions. ... read more
Success can be a killer for innovation, organizational guru Tom Peters told the InformationWeek 500 conference this week. It's from failure that we le ... read more
18/09/2006 | 07:04 am
Updated version of "What Drives Innovation?" available for download
Have a look at the recent white paper, What Drives Innovation? A Heuristic Framework for Corporate Innovation.
For reference, these are our heurist ... read more
18/09/2006 | 07:01 am
To be more innovative, companies must reinvent their management process
Speaking at the Indiatimes Strategy Summit, best-selling business thinker Gary Hamel said it's now time for companies to reinvent their management pro ... read more
Future Frequencies delivers a unique insight into how innovative approaches in the realm of progressive culture can stimulate revolutionary thinking f ... read more
15/09/2006 | 12:01 pm
Send a present by SMS when you're too late to purchase one!
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Dutch cadeaucode.nl, which launched earlier this week, lets late or lazy gift givers send presents by text message. How it works: the giver goes to th ... read more
15/09/2006 | 07:59 am
Philips In Touch Message Board Concept
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Philips' In Touch message board concept makes family communications cold and impersonal, the way they were meant to be.
Each family member is repre ... read more
14/09/2006 | 12:01 pm
Zafu helps female denim shoppers finding the right apparel fit
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WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Inconsistent sizing is the bane of apparel shopping. Upstart Zafu.com has a remedy, at least for jeans buyers. The free site mat ... read more
Opening next month in Nagoya, the Robot Mirai Department store will sell robots and robot accessories. The store is part of a complex that also houses ... read more
13/09/2006 | 01:52 pm
Coming soon: Safer, fruitier ice cubes for kids
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WHAT'S HAPPENING?
When Ice Rocks was launched – purified ice at a premium price – people wondered if it wasn't excessive. Apparently not. The comp ... read more
13/09/2006 | 01:36 pm
Drink& eat fruit
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Materne combines fruit juice and pieces of fruit in a so called 'new sensation of taste'.
The product 'Fruithie' is launched on the belgian market, ... read more
13/09/2006 | 12:01 pm
Apple's "It's Showtime" event on September 12th confirmed
Yes, it appears that at least one part of the Apple rumor mill is true: there will be an Apple special event one week from today, on September 12, at ... read more
12/09/2006 | 08:30 am
Hoxton hotel sells office space to non-guest
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The Hoxton Hotel just opened its doors in a hip neighbourhood in London's East End. Besides the usual meeting spaces for guests, the Hoxton also offer ... read more
The belgian radio channel Studio Brussel is by its target group often considered as a daring channel. As well in in it's choice of music as in it's us ... read more
11/09/2006 | 12:01 pm
Make your own custom-made wine!
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Picking the right bottle is one thing, but it is trumped by making and serving one’s own. Check out Crushpad, a licensed winery in the heart of San Fr ... read more
11/09/2006 | 08:09 am
iPhone: MeToo product ?
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We're hoping on hope that Apple launches the iPhone at their event next week...
Today Shaw Wu, the oft quoted Apple lovin' analyst from American Te ... read more
10/09/2006 | 07:49 pm
Study shows worldwide sourcing of innovation growing quickly
A new study by Booz Allen Hamilton and India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), the first study to assess the evolvin ... read more
Following IBM's recent announcement of its new innovation services group, it should come as no surprise that "Big Blue" has launched a weblog to chron ... read more
