Author: Bob
Humans are social animals. In order to be healthy and to get anything done, we have evolved to form and function within groups, to specialize and cooperate. We use a very complex set of communication systems- mostly tacit- to make this work. These systems are repeated and refined over and...
In everyday speech, price is the quantity of payment or compensation given by one party to another in return for goods or services. Economic theory says that in a free market economy the “market price” reflects interaction between supply and demand. The price is set so as to equate the quantity being supplied and...
Originally posted on the Fast Company website, excerpts below: The first few years after I decided to take my creative writing seriously, I couldn't overcome the nagging feeling that my fiction was simply a glorified hobby--like knitting or fishing. Plenty of people helped reinforce that. I'd be at a party filled with...
Originally posted on the Fast Company website, excerpts below: The first few years after I decided to take my creative writing seriously, I couldn't overcome the nagging feeling that my fiction was simply a glorified hobby--like knitting or fishing. Plenty of people helped reinforce that. I'd be at a party filled with...
Orlando is the kind of community that immediately embraces people. Over twenty years ago when I was working at what was then The Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney's Hollywood Studios), some friends of mine asked if we would consider helping out a local service organization. Trained well, I immediately said "let...
We've had the great fortune to lead Team IDEAS, a collection of best of breed creative, analytic, marketing and operating companies, in design projects all over the world. Among those are Spaceport America and Spaceport Sweden. Last week I spent three days in Las Cruces, New Mexico at the International...
Originally posted on the Harvard Business Review website, excerpts below: The innovation mindset isn’t just about product innovation. Some organizations have focused on product innovation for so long they don’t know how to innovate in any other areas. Most organizations focus on building short-term product innovation engines. However, most products have...
Originally posted on the Explore B2B website by Bob Duffy, excerpts below: An important aspect of a successful organizational brand is to establish a widespread perception of your enterprise’s value. That’s a constant--whether you make products or offer services; whether you manage a small or a large business, an association or...
Team IDEAS has been on a mission recently at the top of the world-literally. David Exline, Kelly Pounds and I were the advance team leading the discovery effort and StoryJam for an exciting new project helping to create concepts and a feasibility for Spaceport Sweden. The town of Kiruna is...
We don't always see clearly. Often, the things we miss are in plain site, waving their arms and shouting "HEY, OVER HERE!" and we just walk on by. I've been aware of, and even involved with, Special Olympics since 2006 when my friend Phil Ruggieri-now IDEAS CEO- asked if we...
IDEAS announced it has named John Lux it’s Chief Operating Officer. Lux has been with IDEAS since its beginning twelve years ago serving most recently as President. Prior to his time at IDEAS Lux was an Operations Manager at the Walt Disney Company. IDEAS Founder Bob Allen notes, “John has...
Originally posted on the Inc. website by Geoffrey James, excerpts below: Management skills don't make an entrepreneur great. Neither does access to capital or innovative thinking. It's something much more simple. Some people believe it's the ability to innovate. However, many startups are refinements of existing business models or improvements on how everyday products and...
