Seth Goodin wrote in his blog today, about the right process can leveraging intuition and how people are shouldn’t be afraid of process.

“Why are you afraid of process?

Is it because it gets in the way of intuition?

I spend a lot of time railing against organizations and teams that fall in love with process at the expense of innovation. This is not a post about that.”

more

I agree with this post, however I sometimes confuse process with procedure. Some companies try to force a set way to do things. This is probably more procedure or best practices than it is process. I can only imagine their motivation is to prevent screw-ups. To me its like saying A) I don’t trust you to get the job done or understand what has to be done. B) Please dont innovate because we can’t control that C) We need a canned set of hours to get this done don’t go off the path.

Process if fine…I agree that Lots of creative people can have processes they can maximize their producitivity while still keeping their intuition alive and using process to measure or fit within a communication strategy or similar.

We see our product as part of the design process. You use your intuition to design your concepts. You post them for feedback and you rinse and repeat.

Posted in Business, Ideas, Innovation, Product Design ~ 2 Comments
Written by Bernie

We are getting closer and this has only fortified our resolve to be full on ready for this. Chris has not laid off the programming, Bernie and I are doing the things that we do.

The team is increadibly tight and functioning as a good team should. This trio arrangement has really allowed us to focus on our individual expertise and it is working.

We can to a startling realization today. Chris can do anything we dream…..we are bound and determined to keep pushing this …..

Cheers

Scott

Posted in Business, Ideas, Innovation ~ No Comments
Written by Scott

So we are signed up for BarCampTDot.

It has been a wild ride over the last few months bringing this to life. We have given it all while trying to maintain something that resembles a life. Every spare moment for the the last few months has been dedicated to making ConceptShare something great.

BarcampTDot is a great venue for us. A) It has put a date on our finishing work on CS B) It will give us an opportunity to unveil the product C) Will give us an opportunity to listen to other people who share our same thinking.

We are increadibly pumped about this and we are looking forward to meeting everyone who is going to be there. We are also going to be at the MESHconference on the following Monday and Tuesday….it is going to be a long 4 days.

I will be filling in the holes in the remaining 25 days leading up to Barcamp and Mesh. I wish i could have it all up now for everyone to check out…but we will be slowly getting our site together and become more dillegant on the posting.

Cheers

Scott

Posted in Business, Ideas ~ No Comments
Written by Scott

Grabbed this interesting cartoon from 37 Signals Flickr Link. I think it sums up one of the main things we are trying to defeat with ConceptShare.

Posted in Business, Ideas, Innovation, Product Design ~ 2 Comments
Written by Bernie

Ok, I think this is pretty big news, and i think it couldn’t have happened at a better time.

“Garage Technology Ventures, a seed-stage and early-stage venture fund based in Palo Alto, today announced the launch of Garage Technology Ventures Canada, LP, a $50 million ($Canadian) fund that will support emerging technology startups in Canada and leverage the Garage links to Silicon Valley and the broader U.S. technology community. Garage Canada represents the first affiliate fund for Garage Technology Ventures.”

Canada needed a wake up call and this is it.

“The Garage Canada Fund enables us to tap a very strong wellspring of innovation and talent in Canada, and span the North American continent” says said Bill Reichert, managing director of Garage Technology Ventures.

I think there will be alot of great things to come from this move. Lets face it they have made some great moves in the past.

I think the Canadian market is perfect for this type of investment, we have some tremendously smart people out there with great ideas Conservative bankers of Canada better take note.

I will be keeping an eye in the future.

Cheers to Guy and Co

Scott

Posted in Business, Ideas, Innovation ~ No Comments
Written by Scott

I was reading about the new Nyko Intros Xbox 360 Cooling Solution. Its basically a product that answers the pain gamers have by the extreme heat the xbox 360 produces that has been said to cause the system to freeze up and even shut down. It got me thinking… and I was marveled at the way that product flaws can create a whole line of products that people are ready to buy. Whole companies are even formed around just waiting for designers to screw something up so they can create a product to fix. Of course there’s always definite  room for customization and accessories for popular consumer products. But look at the iPod for instance, and how many accessory companies and products are out there that focus around the idea of protecting your iPod and especially the scratch prone screens. Basically its product designers who pick up the pieces that the original designers or engineers may have dropped. If you are looking for opportunities, flawed product designs that have solid market share may be a good place to look. However there is the question of sustainabiliy with this strategy. If the iPod was protected out of the box would these products have to exist? If they updated the xbox 360 with better cooling, does this Nyko cooling station stop production? 

Bernie

Posted in Business, Innovation, Product Design, Technology ~ No Comments
Written by Bernie