Blog Innovation Leadership
By Doreen Lorenzo - January 10, 2012
In a complex business environment, innovative companies must move from a guru model to one based on team leadership.
Blog Remarketables
By Sabrina Sandalo - September 20, 2011
This week's collection of remarkable links, curated by the frog marketing team.
Innovation Inspiration: What we can learn from non profits.
Jugaad, innovating with less: Inspirational story of one man who uses litter to light up homes.
Things Apple is Worth More Than: Astounding facts you won't believe.
Blog Remarketables
By Sabrina Sandalo - August 31, 2011
This week's collection of remarkable links, curated by the frog marketing team.
Philographics: Explaining philosophy through basic shapes.
Why Good Advertising Works (even when you think it doesn't).
Blog Amphibious
By Adam Richardson - August 25, 2011
After a crazy couple of weeks in the consumer electronics/smartphone/computer/telecom mega-industry (it's really all one now), another bombshell arrived yesterday with the news that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO and is taking on role of chairman of the board. In reality, it probably means he will be in an advising capacity not unlike what he's probably been doing for the last year while on medical leave. But still, a shock to the system.
Blog Pattern Language
By Sam Martin - August 25, 2011
The following is an excerpt from A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business, the book written by frog Founder Hartmut Esslinger in 2008. Hartmut and frog worked with Steve Jobs at Apple in the early 1980s to create the “Snow White” design language for the Apple IIc computer, and again in 1985 when Jobs briefly left Apple and started the computer company NeXT, where Hartmut and frog designed the NeXT Cube. In this passage from the book, Hartmut offers a glimpse into those tumultuous years for Apple and Jobs, and some insights into why the Apple CEO’s creative and strategic vision became so effective.
Seeing the Future and Supporting Bold Initiatives
By Hartmut Esslinger
To take another look at the power of bold and inspired leadership, let’s return to the story of Apple and its revolutionary leader, Steve Jobs. After I joined the company back in 1982, I quickly realized that Steve was almost fanatically focused on building Apple into the greatest consumer technology brand in the world—a focus that hasn’t wavered over the years. He has a sometimes-dictatorial manner that ticks off a lot of people, but he’s also a charismatic leader who inspires a deep-seated trust among his workers. Steve demands a lot from his team, and typical corporate mediocrity is not an option. He is and always has been the sole authority in determining what makes an “insanely great” Apple product and what doesn’t. Fortunately, his judgment is almost always right on—and when it isn’t, it’s close.
Blog Remarketables
By Sabrina Sandalo - August 22, 2011
This week's collection of remarkable links, curated by the frog marketing team.
Do You Suffer from Decision Fatigue?
Renovating the Fifth Avenue Cube: Apple's invisible advantage.
Blog Amphibious
By Adam Richardson - August 17, 2011
The shockwaves of the recent announcement that Google is buying Motorola Mobility, the handset and device division that spun off from the Motorola mother ship not long ago, will continue to ripple far and wide. There are several reasons why this could be a great boost for Android, but also some major concerns about getting the two companies and their product lines to blend well.
Blog Amphibious
By Adam Richardson - August 15, 2011
The popularity of Apple's design aesthetic and the renewed interest in the work of Dieter Rams of Braun both stem from a common source: they represent calm and certainty in a time of chaos and angst.
Blog Remarketables
By Sabrina Sandalo - June 22, 2011
This week's collection of remarkable links, curated by the frog marketing team.
Dear Photo: A project that calls on people to take a picture of a picture from their past in the present.
Hipstamatic/Instagrams: A reflection of a larger trend in society to create "nostalgia for the present."
Blog Amphibious
By Adam Richardson - June 13, 2011
Apple's World Wide Developers Conference keynote last week will be remembered for two things: the bloodbath of disrupted developers and apps it left in its wake, and that it was as important for cloud services as the iPod was for digital music, and that the iPhone was for smartphones.
