What are you having for breakfast?

Its a nice reminder.
Here is a little article to start your day and an opportunity to reflect upon whether you are clear on your own values, those of your organizations and do they align?





We've been studyi Peter Drucker in class and I just bought The Essential Drucker... pick it up.

Rotman Design Challenge 2012

It has been a long while since I've posted.
Grad school will do that to you.

I wanted to share a little OCADU Masters of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation genius.
It came second place at the Rotman Business Design Challenge. It lost by 2 points out of 500!!! OCADU also took 3rd place with a great initiative called Branch Out. The most important part of the process was the learning (it was awesome to go through this again) and that we won for the most disruptive innovation... which in the end is the real cherry on top.

See the 2nd place presentation here

and for more about the Rotman Design Challenge.

Here was the submission video. I look like a freakin' Mrs. Potatoe head.. but otherwise its fine :)

Eye Spy - a great observing technique

wiki link

100 Questions. Future of BXM retail - How, When and Where we'll buy.

Good morning. It has been a while since I have written. Between the exciting Stanley Cup run to Vancouver's gruesome loss of its cool, a big TV campaign at work, a weed-loving garden, two trips home to Vancouver, for a wedding and for my Dad's 60th... I have been trying to work on my independant study for my Masters of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation, at OCADU.

So... what is my independant study and how do I play on tackling it?

Here it is 'Elevator going up', now pitch!!

I am studying the future of Bricks and Mortar (BXM) retail. How, when and where we'll buy.

This ranges from the relationships between dedicated BXM, on-line, to various distributor models. It also emcompasses the role of the transaction through credit, cash, debit paypal, emerging NFC and mobile-wallet technologies. The landscape is changing... and I am interested in looking at emerging relationships, exploring what hurts and what helps retailers.

How do I start to unravel this big freakin' web of stuff to untangle. Right now I am in a big freaking web of stuff... so to start I have asked 100 questions. (I am not sure how to post them in ... so stay tuned). The purpose of the 100 questions exercise is to essentially brain dump all of the questions/topics/thinking I might have on the subject... and from there start honing. For me the exercise was a breeze until I got to around #35... then I had to push. It took me another 2 hours (of procrastination, emptying the dishwasher, changing the music, making coffee) to really pump out the rest. And since then, I have crafted another 20 or so that I need to document. Once you've untapped it... away it goes :)