Vital Signs - Management Innovation Blog

Square ( mentioned on this blog in 2010) came out with a  big announcement this week to digitize our credit cards and loyalty cards wit...

In the spirit of the New Year's predictions of new business trends, here's a quick rundown of what I consider to be some top trends ...

Following in my recent series on payment technologies and potential disruptions in the marketplace, there was a very interesting announcemen...

As a follow up to my previous post  Square Aims to be Credit Card Value Disruptor , thanks to GigaOM for the following information: The wor...

This is an update to my initial blog post (April 7, 2010): Is Square the Bank of the Future? Today (May 11, 2010), Fast Company has publ...

Dow Jones Industrial Average (May 7, 2010) Business analytics as a core process in financials services is quickly being transformed into ...

Timeline view of news about man-made disasters in Thailand While it's been said that you can't predict the future, there's no...

What does your relationship network say about who you are and how you will act? What is the connection between your network on the web and...

Square ( www.squareup.com ) is a glimpse into the future of payment business models and technology and it's here now. Banks, credit card...

I attended the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's 'the economic edge' conference yesterday. ( http://www.chamber.ca/index.php/en/upc...

As reported by Innosight in this month's issue of Strategy and Innovation , Coca-Cola is introducing the Freestyle dispensing machine. ...

An excellent article by Konrad Yakabuski in the July 1 issue of the Globe and Mail describes why Canada is lagging in its innovation imper...

What are your organization's vital signs? Are they clearly aligned to your strategy? Are they fully integrated? I get asked by corpora...

The Globe and Mail reported here that Acer will be selling netbooks with Google's Android free operating system (OS). The vital signs ...

Any discussion about the innovation of management processes necessarily leads to the future of work, how work gets done and how to retain ta...

Wired Magazine's " Secret of Googlenomics " article explains the math behind Google's AdWords , Google's online unique...

Professor Andrew Razeghi ( www.andrewrazeghi.com ) of Kellog School of Management has written a compelling piece called "Innovating thr...

At the WEF Davos January 2009 Meeting , the session called " Rebooting the Global Economy " began with Matthew A. Winkler (Edito...