There are many reasons why I enjoy facilitating our customers’ foresight initiatives. It is easier to help your inventors disconnect their current day-to-day jobs from the future for which they are developing ideas. It is less restrictive than asking them to come up with an innovation that they can deliver…

There are still some tasks that can only be accomplished by people. I remember going to Yahoo! in 1995, just before everything exploded here in Silicon Valley. I was there with several cable TV executives (we had come down from Toronto to meet with representatives from @Home, Netscape, and Yahoo…

A few months back, I went to a conference focused on the future of conversational interfaces. During this conference, one of the speakers described the current state of the art in cloud robotics, which is a very new field of study. Before the development of cloud robotics, machines had to…

According to Wikipedia, the idea of just-in-time only appears in three contexts: just-in-time manufacturing, a production strategy in which things are built as they are demanded; computer programming, in which just-in-time compilation can compile code just before use to improve run-time performance; and just-in-time teaching, a strategy to improve learning…

I’ve started my own businesses, worked for tiny businesses, large businesses, and firms in the middle ground, and I’ve also held positions at organizations of all sizes in between. It’s possible that some people might claim that I have an intriguing history. …

During the time that I’ve managed projects, as we got through the process of implementing any kind of program, whether it’s a software implementation, innovation architecture, or software development, most project managers that I know like to end their projects with a mythical land known as “steady state.” In other…

Recently, there was a story about an AI model that used 4chan to learn behaviors. Needless to say, the AI it created was pretty horrible. Before that, there was another story about an AI trained on Reddit. It, too, turned out to be pretty terrible. Even before that, Microsoft created…

You are an innovator, and you are pleased with the role that you play in the world. You take great pride in your ability to anticipate your customers' needs and design and manufacture goods accordingly. The only issue is that the task to be done by your customer and the…

What is the true motivation behind the creation of the internet? Wasn’t it intended to link every human in the world to every other human on the planet and maybe even lead us into a future where all people can comprehend one another better? …