Have you ever wondered how easy it would be if you could pay with your credit card anywhere, at any time?
Hmmm, nice idea, but the problem has always been a lack of terminals. After all, not many garage sales have their own EFTPOS terminal, right?
WRONG! Silicon Valley based start up firm Square have busted this [...]
Do you take cards? Sure do
February 12th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Financial services · Innovation theory
Innovation - used and abused
August 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Scott Berkun in his recent HBR blog comments on the overuse of the word innovation and how it is not only used and abused but is often misleading. He suggests that instead of saying “How can we be innovative?”, a toothless and vague question with mostly useless answers, we should be asking “How can we [...]
Tags: Innovation theory
Anthill pushes the point - ideas, invention & innovation (2)
July 24th, 2008 · No Comments
In his recent blog Anthill editor James Tuckerman touches on a topic we whole heartedly agree with!
There is an urgent need to actually focus on understanding the customers need first and validate the bejesus out of that, before anyone spends any more on stuff that no one wants. What is needed is a total market [...]
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Innovation, invention and ideas
July 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
When you talk to people about innovation, the conversation has a habit of always drifting to ideas, developing ideas and the search for the ‘big idea’. The idea that will make them rich, bust up the competition and rearrange the market as we know it.
Within many of the large corporates ‘innovation’ invariably ends up [...]
Tags: Financial services
