Year: 2013

Sinek and the golden circle of innovation Today’s selection is this motivational video by Simon Sinek, a master in the Art of captivating the audience while only teaching a single thing and demonstrating it several times in the course of the same recording session. I find the video as impressive…

Data Center robotics can help us understand innovation a little better. We’ve already asked this question many times. What is innovation? What does it mean to build/sell/buy something “new”. And inevitably, as we ask this question, we leave a door open to interpretation. “innovation is in the eye of the beholder”…

I tend to bitch about infographics every now and then, but sometimes you find something which is really valuable. Like the following diagram by Jess.net about how credit card numbers work. Obviously, it’s meant for you to understand the nomenclature and not actually crack the codes. Goes without saying. Legend:…

The global innovation report is a yearly report showing R&D spendings and Innovation Investments across different industries. For reference, I have included the 2009 results by industry and the 2011 version below. The sectors which invest in R&D do not differ much from one year to another. Although the report states…

Are techies and marketers able to work as a team? I spotted that picture (or rather, my wife did, let’s be honest) posted by Physicisttv on their Facebook page last night and I couldn’t help sharing it with you on this blog. The fact is we could change the caption…

No, you’re not deaming! The SticknFind startup raised closed to 1 million dollars on the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform. And The founders of SticknFind are no rookies either for they have been pioneers of Bluetooth products since 2003 and 2004 and they have been working for the automotive industry and have…

On my third day at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I stopped by the Boost communications booth in order to have a chat with some of the world’s trailblazers and innovators in the mobile marketing market. It’s true that mobile advertising is the next big thing, but not much has…

On February 25th, at the ZTE press conference about its release of a new large size mobile phone at Mobile World Congress, the show was not where you’d think it was. The announcement of ZTE’s new launch of devices (one of which with the brand new Firefox OS) has given…

On February 24th, 2013, we paid a visit to the Grand Fira which is the brand new venue for the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona. Everything here is brand new and even though they built dummy columns at the entrance to remind visitors of the old place it is…

It’s very flattering that my name appears on the list of “influencers” who took part in the social media week events of last week. Synthesio has put together this report which is very interesting and shows some of the countries and cities which are head and shoulders above the rest…

Is Powerpoint a disease? My recent post on the true nature of infographics has prompted me to dish out this 10 year-old post by Giancarlo Livraghi which used to be available on my Visionarymarketing.com website. Even though some of its references are a bit outdated, nothing has changed since then, except…

Thanks to my favourite stumble upon gimmick for finding new content and subjects, I discovered this very interesting piece of infographics about the true nature of brands according to their colour. I do not know what these graphics, beautifully crafted by the way, “[tell] about your business” as the headline…