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Innovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. This issue: Has Apple helped create the real Web 2.0? [psfk] Is Apple breaking away from today’s browser centric applications to be the first to create the user centric web? The Web that time forgot [The New York Times] More than half a century before Tim Berners-Lee released the first Web browser in 1991, Otlet …
Innovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. This issue: Is U.S. innovation headed offshore? [Business Week] Apparently not, even though more research and development is joining manufacturing in the shift toward low-cost nations. Where are they now? [The Industry Standard] The darlings of the first dot com bubble were seen as innovation made concrete. Where are they now? Can America keep its …
Innovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. The Customer is the Company [Inc.com] Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month — with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it’s never produced a flop. It’ll never work [Null hypothesis] In light of the claim that inflatable cars are set to become the vehicle of …
As the world turns…
Lately I’ve been trying to come up with a pithy description for the changes technology is currently driving our companies toward, and came up with the following. Check out the text, see what you think, and leave a comment with your thoughts. When the business cycle was long and environment was somewhat predicable (or at least more predictable than today), we focused on optimizing the steady state. The value-chain—viewing businesses as transaction factories—was our metaphor …
Innovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. This issue: IT vs. initiative: The Internet age comes to the battlefield [The Industry Standard] Innovation is not always a good thing. Some ideas have unintended consequences when moved to a new context. The Myth of Multitasking [The New Atlantis] Multitasking makes us more productive? Doesn’t it? Lazy Eyes: How we read online [Slate] Some …
Innovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. This issue: How Crocs rakes in the revenue from ugly shoes [Business Pundit] Sometimes your core product is not what it appears to be. Step back, look around, peer ahead [Business Week] Technology can be a driver of innovation, but technology is no end game in and of itself. Rather, thinking about technology’s impact on …
Innovation Brief
Everyone seems to be talking about innovation these days. As business becomes increasingly competitive we jump at any new idea that might provide us with a toe hold needed to climb past our competitors. Methodologies have be developed and books written with the hope of industrializing innovation. However, innovation is a numbers game and we need to wade through hundreds of good ideas to find that one that might work. Access to (and acceptance of) …
Change me
I have a theory. It seems that most people learn something in their early to mid 20s, and then spend the rest of their career happily doing the same thing over and over again. This might be anything ranging from developing a certain type of software application (thee tier Java web shops, COBOL transaction processing solutions, Zachman …) or IT desktop management and support through to retail management or running a typing pool. Once they’ve …
Outsourcing the intranet
I’ve been thinking for some time that a logical conclusion to the plethora of free (or at least cheap) social web applications will be companies simply outsourcing their intranets. Delivering a few portlets (or Open Social applications) into iGoogle or Facebook would seem to solve the problem of connecting your employees with the business, and has the additional benefit of helping employees connect with other employees. However, I was still surprised when I woke this …
Strategy and differentiation
A lot of us place a great deal of hope in enterprise applications. After all, applications have been a great source of differentiation in the past. In a world where globalisation has firmly taken hold and we’re all under intense cost pressure, everyone is searching for that edge that will push up margins or grab a little more of the market. The poster child for this is Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart made a massive investment in a …
