Innovation

Apps, Agents & Agentic AI, Oh My.

Beyond the general AI giants like OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, and the generative AI darlings like Midjourney and Stability, there’s a world of innovation and investment happening in more specific areas: applications and agents.

John Bell

Apr 254 min read

Brave Work: Data, Stories & Creativity from Domestic Data Streamers

Who gets to decide what violence is? An experience that challenges our understanding of what violence actually looks like (and feels...

John Bell

Apr 14, 20242 min read

A Most Impressive Brand Film Thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Unless you are a chipmaker, you probably don’t know ASML. Building on extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, they make compact chips that...

John Bell

Apr 7, 20242 min read

The Best Practical Guides to AI for Marketers in 2024

Like most marketers, I have been experimenting with ChatGPT, Gemini (fka Bard), Stability.ai, Runway, and others to learn how to make my...

John Bell

Feb 15, 20245 min read

How Generative AI Will Change Visuals in Marketing

Right now, all eyes are on artificial intelligence resources like ChatGPT with their ability to create some reasonable text content for...

John Bell

Jun 26, 20232 min read

Future Work: Designing Collaboration

["Designing Collaboration" is one of 5 Near-term Realities of Future Work. Click here to see all five.] "Presenteeism" - making sure...

John Bell

May 22, 20223 min read

TRENDS: Marketing AI Systems Start Delivering Value

If you are a marketer or a small businessperson, you have probably been targeted with ads pushing artificial intelligence companies who...

John Bell

Jan 2, 20223 min read

Can Private Equity Make Marketing Better in 2022?

Private equity (PE) firms identify under-developed private resources, snap them up, fix them and sell them at a strong profit. Sometimes...

John Bell

Aug 1, 20213 min read

What Small Business Can Learn from the Enterprise Innovation Ecosystem

Large, incumbent businesses have been playing catch up in innovation. Pressured by changing customer expectations and threats from the...

John Bell

Mar 24, 20215 min read