I have the pleasure of teaching entrepreneurship at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in NYC. Being a New York City based business school cloaked as a design/art institute provides fertile ground for discipline mash-ups. The attached article from FT.com details the rise of retail mash-up,
5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #29
photo via Donald McMichael While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What's Next? In this blog post Bruce Nussbaum, on of the biggest advocators of Design Thinking via his Business
Do You Know What Your Business Model Is?
Did you realize that 2/3 of all companies have not articulated their business model. This is an amazing stat from Charles Baden-Fuller. The reason it is so high isn't that they don't have it is that they just don't think about it. And that logic chain then goes that if one
Strategic Value: What Do You Bring To The Table?
A few months ago I started using the tagline ‘solves the tough[est] problems’. The use of a branding tagline is not the story. Companies have been at this for centuries and people have earned them since the beginning of time... think John the Great. What interested me during the development and
Design…Left Brain Style
Can you measure the value of a business’ design competency? Dr. Peter Zec and Burkhard Jacob believe that one can. They provide a unique perspective for looking at design and business. It’s a good thing too. With the increasing necessity to continuously innovate business leaders need to arm