June 13th 2020
I recently joined 1,500 designers, developers, entrepreneurs, patients, and health professionals who came together from 40 countries to hack ways to help people through the Recovery and Reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic. I was one of the mentors who worked with 200+ teams in a mad rush to prototype innovative new responses to COVID-19.
February 28th 2019
For the first time ever, the Rutgers Business School is allowing instructors to give a 25% discount to programs they teach. That means you can take the mini MBA in Customer Centered Leadership I’m co-instructing this April, and pay less because you read UsefulArts.
October 31st 2016
Five years ago today, on Halloween, I was headed to London to keynote my second conference there in five months. I’m on a runway again, so its a natural time to how much our thinking about digital business has changed – and where that puts us for the next big areas of digital innovation.
November 2nd 2015
I’m thrilled to be back in Brooklyn with my friends at eZ Systems to lead a half day innovation workshop. To get fired up, I’ve mixed a playlist and shared some photos I took in the industrial zone around out very cool conference neighborhood. Take a look.
May 28th 2014
Here are five macro-changes that are starting to driving systemic innovation in healthcare. Making empathy, design, medicine and business intersect for better value, outcomes, and patient experiences.
December 9th 2013
The nice people at the Online Marketing Institute have asked me to give a rocket fast webinar on ISITE Design’s approach to digital strategy. Details and a the free registration link for friends of UsefulArts are this way.
October 14th 2013
Its Boston’s crazy marketing week with FutureM, Digital Pulse, AMA, and Inbound Marketng Summit drawing attendees from around the world to Boston just in time to catch some great baseball. Step this way to get in on a great discussion, followed by beer with Boston AMA.
July 21st 2013
Will you be in Boston Wednesday, August 7th? Dan Slagen and I will be leading some networking and fun at the AMA Boston Chapter’s Connector series at the NERD Center in Cambridge. Dan is an acquisition marketing genius, and I’m fortunate to be co-moderating this event with him.
May 23rd 2013
Andrew Schwint and Michael Flint recently spent an evening sharing their design insights with graduate students at Northeastern University.. I hope their insights will trigger your design thinking.
May 15th 2013
As a run-up to Integrated Marketing Week in New York, my friends at Econsultancy have stood up a series of Google+ Hangouts to preview how marketers are joining up marketings digital elements to create integrated customer experiences. The event is at 9am Pacific / noon Eastern time today — no registration is needed, just come […]
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