As we come to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Internet – this ones worth checking out. To the next 40 years.

Richard Branson goes without introduction. Greatest businessman or best pin-up for the hyper-active. You judge. Take a walk through his wild life.

The LG Watchphone, launching next week, is one disruptive device. Gadget freeks get scrambling. Orange’s answer to the iPhone. I’ll take both.

The @Google program features MakerBot, which is a potentially disruptive innovation, turning digital designs into physical objects. A great example of how to develop a cool innovation and how NOT to present it.

This insightful video examines the difference between disruptive innovation and sequential innovation. Most disruptive innovations involve business model innovations versus tech innovations – in fact the technology is often quite trivial. Twitter is a classic example.

Microsoft’s brand new Zune HD is a big step forwards and packs some pretty innovative features. If they keep this up the next version may even give the iPhone/iPod Touch a run for its money. So where’s the Microsoft Tablet?

We recently talked about nailing Focus Groups, which made me think about internal feedback management. The way companies treat internal ideas (great sources of innovation) is usually devoted to a bulletin board next to the watercooler. Springwise posted about Nosco an interesting method to collect feedback but most of all distribute shares in employees’ ideas. [...]

This is a great series of interviews on the qualities needed to become a successful entrepreneur – hits the mark.

Innovate’s (TM) start-up system starts with the @ha idea. Innov@te utilizes a process called CREATE-IVITY (TM) to generate ideas. Once an entrepreneur has developed their @ha idea they need to know what to do with it. Rushing straight from idea to venture is way too hit and miss. Equally, the world over, far too many people [...]

There are some great entrepreneur interviews at Stanford’s eCorner. The wonder of Stanford is its proximity to so much that is successful in and around Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs often come from or are linked to Stanford University so they have strong pulling power. Worth checking out.

Following the digital big bang small businesses and start-ups will be able to compete with larger businesses as never before. And anyone will be able to afford to start a small business. Capital will no longer be the scarce resource – ideas, marketing and attitude will. Just look at Twitter. For anyone will be able [...]

Innovatrs is excited to offer full, open access to the Innovate Wiki for anyone to use, learn from and add to. When we developed Innovate, with its 7 stages and 49 phases for taking an idea all the way through to a successful business, we always dreamed of it becoming an open source methodology that [...]

As we look out a few years one tremor looks inevitable: the digital big bang. The point at which the tipping trend to connected networks and devices explodes us into a new dawn. Today there are 3.5 billion mobile phone users each connected to one network or another – in cities across the globe many using [...]

TechCrunch recently put out a list of the top 100 ‘networked’ venture capitalists – following some interesting research. They defined ‘networked’ by the number of co-investors that they had in deals and rated firms by the number of exits they had achieved. The top 10 lists most of the usual suspects. Which got me thinking [...]

A former editor of Windows magazine, Mike Elgan, illustrated the difference between ordinary brands and charismatic brands in two succinct sentences: “Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is famous for a crazy video in which he yells, “I—love—this—company!” In the case of Apple, it’s the customers who shout that.” Charismatic brands use Art-in-Product (TM) and bridge customer experience to vision. Design [...]

Tim Brown of IDEO wrote an interesting article on Participation in Design. The premise is that innovation will and should increasingly come from groups, not individuals, crowds not buddies – the social Web. I could not agree more. The question is how do we design the next set of systems to drive crowd innovation and what [...]

According to BusinessWeek There is growing evidence that the US’ innovation shortfall of the past decade is not only real but may also have contributed to today’s financial crisis. It seems that the major innovations promised just a decade ago, such as truly fast broadband for all, 3G everywhere, cures for cancer, electric cars and [...]

I have spent the last four and a half years studying, researching and developing the link between creativity and innovation. After all, I spent my early years surrounded by artists and art on the one hand (my mother is a well know art historian and curator) and the Letts media business on the other. In [...]

Readwritestart produced a neat article recently on what VC’s look for in a first time, Web entrepreneur. I guess the best summary is cool geekness with the determination of a bull and ballerina like flexibility. OK. So, you see, at the end of the day its about charismatic, determined geeks. You know, Zuckerberg look-alikes. Me, I’d go [...]

Design is rapidly moving from posters and toasters to include processes, systems, and organizations. Design is the accelerator for the company car, the power train for sustainable profits. Design drives innovation, innovation powers brand, brand builds loyalty, and loyalty sustains profits. If you want long-term profits, don’t start with technology—start with design. For businesses to [...]

It’s day 1 at Innovatrs.com so it seems fitting that I should bang on about why I developed Innovate and as a result Innovatrs.com. 40 odd years ago I was born into the Letts publishing empire. The business was rocking. It had invented the diary way back in the late 1700′s and controlled the industry [...]