Lets say you are searching for a job, but you don’t know the industry, haven’t worked enough years, or perhaps haven’t worked directly on the functional area. Most managers of human resource departments, will even refuse to look deeper into your curriculum vitae. The reason: you lack the required experience. Are these factors good enough [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’
The Experience Trap
Posted in Business, Education, tagged Apple, Business, Education, Innovation, Nescafe on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Project Natal: Interface Holy Grail?
Posted in Design, tagged CES, Design, Innovation, Interface, linkedin, Microsoft, Movies, Project Natal, Video games on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ESPAÑOL On Wednesday, as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at Las Vegas was about to start, there was a Microsoft keynote which included the date for Project Natal’s launch: Holiday season 2010. As the first obvious contender to the successful Nintendo Wii controllers, and bearing impressive technology, one can’t help but wonder if it is [...]
Low(est) Liability Warranty
Posted in Business, tagged Business, Design, Innovation, Random, Religion on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ESPAÑOL Recently, I went on a quest for the perfect umbrella. I haven’t got a chance to test it yet, but its limited lifetime warranty is far from perfect (maybe if you’re looking from the company’s perspective it is). Here is the story. The Bay Area has a very unpredictable weather. This means that you [...]
Creative New Products and Some Crap
Posted in Design, tagged Business, Design, Haas School of Business, Innovation, Sustainability, User-centric on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ESPAÑOL Last Sunday I attended the expo for the projects from the New Product Development class, where students from different disciplines get together to tackle some user problems, and address them with the development of a new product. I was impressed by the presentation of very creative solutions. To give you a taste, here are [...]
Innovation Arbitrage
Posted in Business, tagged Asia, Business, Innovation, linkedin on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week at Haas I had the opportunity to listen a presentation by Benjamin Joffe, the knowledgeable and accessible Managing Director at Plus Eight Star Ltd (+8* is a reference to the country codes of China, South Korea and Japan; the countries on which the company focuses). The company provides consulting services in strategy and [...]
