The second group in my class worked on a product for Philadelphia Tourists. They come up with a set of services that is designed to replace a tour guidebook. The mock-up user interface is shown below. The key idea here is that this device is designed to replace tour guidebooks. Its size, weight and appearance … Read more
Today’s New York Times has a story about an increasing trend that schools around the country are removing laptop computers from the school. Not only computers distract students from learning, but they have not enhanced the testing scores, according to the article. Here are some really neat quotes from the article. “After seven years, there … Read more
Yesterday was the last day of class and my students did excellent jobs of putting together their presentations. The first group was focusing on a small device for Philadelphia Residents. The name of the device is called PUC (Philadelphia Urban Communicator). It could be a Personal Urban Communicator. It is a small round device that … Read more
When you teach for executive education programs, you will receive feedback from the participants. They rate you on everything: contents, communication, hand-out materials, etc. Among those, they also measure the quality of food and beverage. Whenever I score higher than the food and beverage, I am happy.
I did one day seminar on managing virtual teams at Case for about 35 managers. This is the video that I showed today which is about globalization that was posted on YouTube. It has lots of facts that make you think. The PDF file is too large to post here. I will find a way … Read more
Yesterday, I had Lee Green, IBM’s Worldwide design chief, as a guest speaker for my class. As always, it was filled with lots of interesting stories from times he was with IBM, including the small division that he was asked to join called “desktop” and the day when the Big Blue went cultural change with … Read more