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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

In 2009, it felt like the world was ending. In 2009 I started my blog, Digital Tonto, which turned my life in a new direction. The incredible cynicism and incompetence of Yanukovych’s rule stoked a desire to change direction. I was still living in Ukraine then and the financial crisis hit there especially hard. We can too.

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Innovation and the rapidly changing world of photography

Jeffrey Phillips

We've reached a couple of interesting milestones in a very short period of time, and it behooves us to pay attention to the changes in what has been an important industry - photography. This of course follows on Kodak's decision to stop manufacturing film for most cameras, which occurred in 2009.

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Where is technology taking the economy?

The Inovo Group

Brian Arthur, well-known economist who described the phenomenon of increasing returns and wrote the excellent 2009 book, “ The Nature of Technology ”. As a result “politics will change, free-market beliefs will change, social structures will change”. The post Where is technology taking the economy?

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. The reliance on deeper insights, more data, greater communications is changing the way we undertake innovation. A virtuous loop.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Thomas Malaby

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. The rise of digital technologies poses many challenges and opportunities for ethnographic research. Certainly, but in a sense any given community changes historically in a unique fashion.

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Five Benefits of a Diverse Innovation Team

IdeaScale

Nikon is a crown jewel of Japanese engineering and imaging technology, and yet a lack of diversity resulted in a camera Japanese people couldn’t use. Diversity Stops Embarrassment In 2009, HSBC launched a campaign with the slogan “Assume Nothing.” Diversity Spots Problems.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

We’ll also provide a series of practical tips and examples that can help address the changes, embrace new opportunities, and navigate these challenging times. As not all organizations are willing to take the risk to shift gears and change direction, that’s where you can outperform competitors. So, without further ado, let’s get to it.

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