A couple of collegues and I were discussing the process of doing competitive/comparitive analyses, and Alexa asked “if you pretty much know something is true, what’s the role of a competitive analysis to prove it?” Which is an excellent question. And Sarah had an excellent answer: “Well, it depends. It’s important to know when you [...]
Entries from May 30th, 2008
Fave idea of the week : May 30th, 2008
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · creative projects, fave ideas
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Fave idea of the week : May 23rd, 2008
May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · fave ideas, neat things
 Walt Disney coined this wonderful word, and Peter introduced me to it. The art of plussing is pushing a solution a little bit more, a little bit further, to get it to really sing…to truly shine. The edge is a fragile thing, and one to play with, get to know and use as an inspiration. [...]
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Fave idea of the (mid)week : May 19th, 2008
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments · fave ideas
 There are times in a project or in a relationship when things seem to go awry. I’ve learned that going dark isn’t the answer, although sometimes that’s really what I want to do…retreat! Rest! Make it stop!  If, however, you do find yourself going dark, be careful…things go feral quickly. I was once sick [...]
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Fave idea of the week : May 16th, 2008
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments · fave ideas, random thoughts
  When Nathan Moody did his brown bag for us, he mentioned delivering a magpie piece…the shineyshiney stuff that catches the eye. I’m a total crow/magpie/squirrel…something shiney generally rules my life. So go ahead. Find the shiney.
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Fave idea of the week : May 9th, 2008
May 9th, 2008 · No Comments · fave ideas, neat things, work
  I was setting up a time to meet with Trisha, and noticed that every day at 5pm, she had a meeting. Adaptive Path is rigorous about promoting work+life balance, and everyone is encouraged to leave the office at a reasonable time and go out and spend time with family, friends, life, what have you. [...]
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Fave idea of the week : May 2nd, 2008
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · fave ideas, sketchbook
   Adaptive Path holds frequent brown bag lunches where we invite folks to talk about interesting ideas. Andrew Blau joined us from Global Business Network to talk about scenario planning (read Peter’s blog post and Roland’s post for details.) One of Andrew’s comments was about creative misreading. Creative misreading was an approach forwarded by literary [...]
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