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“Failure is a stepping stone to success.” — Keiko Hasegawa, Manager of AMS Transformation and Consulting, IBM Japan, Inside the Inventive Mind.
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“Workload is like the ocean—it hits you wave after wave, endlessly. You need to learn how to stay above—sometimes you tread water but you can only do this for a short time, sometimes you jump the waves, and sometimes you just beach yourself. And oh yeah… watch for sharks—the things that bite you when you least expect it.” — Nancy Greco, IBM Watson Researcher, Inside the Inventive Mind.
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Seeking innovation? Look for the intersection of physical and digital worlds.Take, for example, Tesco supermarkets in South Korea. The company wanted to increase sales without creating more stores. Tesco understood that Koreans work long hours and have little appetite for shopping at the end of the day so they created virtual grocery stores at subway stations. These virtual stores, shelves and all, are projected on the walls of subway stations. To purchase items, shoppers simply go to a Tesco app on a smartphone and scan the projected items’ QR code. When purchases are completed, the order is delivered to shoppers’ homes shortly after they get home from work. The Tesco app was downloaded 400,000 times in one month after the launch and Tesco skyrocketed to number one in online sales in Korea. Simply, wow…
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IBMblr. Big Blue on Tumblr. Go figure. You’ll certainly find all types on Tumblr. From the cute and clever to the impressively philosophical and artfully prolific. Increasingly, business and brands are joining the fray. IBM looks to celebrate their long legacy of innovation with IBMblr. “IBMers are a pretty humble bunch, so we wanted to mainly just celebrate the inventors, and the joy of inventing,” said Sam Mazur, creative director at Ogilvy, the agency that worked on the Tumblr. IBMlbr is meant to be mostly targeted at techies, but also designers, business people and anyone else who is curious and wants some new ideas and information for their own creative processes. Diverse, easy-to-digest, frequent lighter content dominates the effort. We applaud both IBM and their incredibly smart and creative partners at Ogilvy for showing us and the rest of the business community how to think both strategically and creatively. Hopefully, more to come…
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Art SPOTTED. Karen Knorr | India Song. In the latest series from the London-based photographer, Karen Knorr, India Song depicts scenarios that are at once otherworldly and hyperreal. Knorr’s digital compositions bring a diverse cast of noble creatures into the brilliantly captivating and lavish architectural scenes. The photographer presents her memento mori recalling both lost empires and the endangered animal kingdom while leading us to contemplate both our own mortality, solitude and beauty. A big trip lies in the near future…
