Co-Creation Association

The map has been replaced by the compass The map keeps getting redrawn, because it’s cheaper than ever to go offroad, to develop and innovate and remake what we thought was going to be next. Technology keeps changing the routes we take to get our projects from here to there. It doesn’t pay to memorize… Continue reading »

Too far from the center? The action used to happen at court. In France, if you wanted to get ahead, you put on your outfit, called in favors and hung out near the King, because proximity was all. If you’re in Kibera, are you too far from Silicon Valley to write an app? If you… Continue reading »

Featured Research: The Paradox of Tie Strength in Customer Relationships for Innovation: A Longitudinal Case Study in the Sports Industry I am happy to announce the publication of a new paper on a topic that is strongly underlying this blog: The relationship between firms and customers for innovation and value creation. This post shall be… Continue reading »

Yebab.com: helping Arab brides to have a happy marriage While marriage day might be the happiest day in the lives of many women, the preparations to that day are the hardest and organizationally very challenging. Meet Yebab.com. In the Arab world, you need to multiply all logistical and organizational challenges of a marriage by a… Continue reading »

The illusion of privacy (and what we actually care about) You probably have very little privacy at all, giving it up a long time ago. If you’ve got a charge card, the card company already knows what you do, where you go, how you spend your money, what your debt is like. If you use… Continue reading »

We can handle information density Memo to search engines: we’re smart enough to look at more than five search results above the fold. As the web has gotten more crowded, sites regularly expose us to dashboards crammed with information. Sometimes there are more than a hundred links or cues on a page, and we are… Continue reading »

Time doesn't scale But bravery does. The challenge of work-life balance is a relatively new one, and it is an artifact of a world where you get paid for showing up, paid for hours spent, paid for working. In that world, it’s clearly an advantage to have a team that spends more time than the… Continue reading »

Meeting vs. making As I was scurrying to meet someone coming in on the 11 am train, I realized that there’s a huge difference between meeting a train and making one. If you’re rushing to make a train, you have to be there before the last moment. Five seconds too late is too late. The… Continue reading »

Spout and scout Social media has amplified two basic human needs so much that they have been transformed into entirely new behaviors. Sites have encouraged and rewarded us to spout, to talk about what we’re up to and what we care about. And they’ve mirrored that by making it easy to scout, to see what… Continue reading »

Public Proceedings of the last MCPC Conference Published — Access all Conference Presentations, Papers, Videos Did you miss the MCPC 2011 conference? It was a great event, and we really got great feedback and comments on the conference.  Check here for some conference pictures! Richard Henderson at UC Berkeley has been very helpful in creating… Continue reading »