CIO Dashboard: 5 Innovation Opportunities

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I recently had the opportunity to co-author a post with Chris Curran over at the CIO Dashboard blog. It is an update on a post he did last year considering some innovations to watch in 2011. We spent some time thinking about some emerging tech trends in 2012 and what the opportunities are to the CIO/CTO community (i.e. what should you be thinking about to get ahead of the curve … [Read more...]

I Had A Dream (Apple Television Update 2)

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So, back in 2008, I wrote a post about a dream I had where I was interacting with my television through a tablet device that controlled and augmented the content on the screen. Remember that this post pre-dated the launch of the iPad, so it's interesting to see how things have been developing. This fall, I read the Steve Jobs biography and read the part where he said he had … [Read more...]

Corporations Going Tribal

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Interestingly enough, the topic of digitally-enabled tribalism came up at the office yesterday. We were having a meeting on a mostly unrelated subject when we started talking about what it meant to be a Social Enterprise. I brought up the concept of how digital media and platforms were altering the way we form social structures and form tribal cultures across distance and time, … [Read more...]

Technology and Spacetime: Then & There is Here & Now

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A while back, I wrote a post in response to re-reading an interview with Marshall McLuhan. It described the way that the printed word created a portability of culture beyond the immediacy of face-to-face communication. However, print also introduced a coolness to the cultural exchange by removing many of the subtleties, like intonation and gestures, from the exchange. I argued … [Read more...]

Design Asshole Of The Month: Apple

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I am introducing a new feature here at devinhenkel.com, the Design Asshole Of The Month. Each month, I will point out a design flaw that really gets my hackles up. The inaugural award goes to Apple Computer, Inc. Those of you who know me may find it a surprise that I would choose to hand this out to Apple, since I am generally a fan of the fruit company from Cupertino. But this … [Read more...]

Reply All… Hilarity.

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A recent email exchange at work left me laughing and wondering if people lacked a basic understanding of how "Reply All" works. Occasionally, those of us who work a little too much get nastygrams from HR informing us that we've hit the limit on vacation accrual and will begin losing time if we don't take some vacation soon. On November 30th, just such a note went out. Today, … [Read more...]

Making A Dent

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I was at the inaugural gathering of ConvergeUS, an initiative to use technology to improve the world in some small measure, when I heard the news of Steve Jobs' passing. Biz Stone delivered a nice message to the group to use the gathering as an effort to celebrate the desire to make a dent in the universe, rather than to mourn the passing of someone who strove to do … [Read more...]

Innovation: Finding your Voice

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I read a post today over at 15inno.com listing 5 Reasons Not to Use Apple As a Role-Model for Innovation. While it's hard to argue with the points made in the article (You're not Apple, You don't even know Apple, People don't think you're as cool as Apple, You don't have Steve Jobs), it comes off as a little to Fanboy-ish - even for me. But, it did get me thinking...  Is … [Read more...]

The Immovable User Meets Irresistible Design

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There's a nice article over at all tech considered about the symbiotic relationship between Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive.  Ive has designed Apple products since the fruit colored iMacs, and Steve Jobs is, well...  Steve Jobs.  The article describes the intimate working relationship between Jobs an Ive since The Steve returned to Apple in 1992. The big takeaway from the … [Read more...]