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- Spigit mashes up social software to reveal Innovation
- Take the idea of community, sprinkle liberally with process, add a dash of prediction market thinking and a soupcon of reputation analysis, stir gently without too much mashing and you have InnovationSpigit. I really like this idea because it solves one of the...
- Tags: Innovation, Idea, Spigit, InnovationSpigit, Research & Development, LDAP, Leadership, Games, Strategy, Business Operations, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Where's the next new thing in Silicon Valley?
- Excellent article by Jeff Nolan, an ex-VC, writing in SandHill.com on venture capital investments and locating the next big thing. Incrementalism and "The New New Thing" - With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation? He makes many good points...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Web, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Leadership, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- The new collaboration: Enabling Innovation, changing the workplace
- While companies see the value of innovation, they frequently fail to put the right tools in place to support those goals. The new collaboration will be built on technologies that enable easy knowledge sharing outside the firewall.Read this white paper to find how to collaborate and utilise these technologies
- Tags: Innovation, Workplace, Collaboration, IBM Corp., Leadership, Groupware, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-04-23
- The CIO profession: driving Innovation and competitive advantage
- Can the CIO profession evolve rapidly enough to match the pace of global competition and technological change?Last year, the prospects were far from encouraging. In 2006, CIOs felt that senior management did not understand the transformative power of technology and did not appreciate the contribution that CIOs could make to...
- Tags: Innovation, CIO, Competitive Advantage, Leadership, Strategy, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-04-18
- Drive Enterprise Innovation with IT Simplication
- Today's globally competitive business climate demands that organisations reduce complexity to ensure the reliable delivery of products and services to customers, and to better adapt to fast-changing business needs.This white paper looks into how CIOs can simplify their IT infrastructures to enable the business to function optimally in this...
- Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-04-16
- Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit
- Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy SummitLike patriotism, "innovation" is the last refuge of scoundrels.Whenever government contemplates restrictions in defense of IP rights, the argument that preventing theft inhibits innovation is likely to be heard. Actually, the best way to encourage innovation would be to make activities illegal....
- Tags: Government, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Tech Policy Summit, DMCA Safe Harbors, Lohmann, innovation, harbor
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit
- The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should function are as divergent as ever. The panel (pictured from left to right) consisted...
- Tags: Innovation, Lawsuit, Patent, Harbor, TiVo Inc., Fred, Lohmann, Copyrights, Copyright System, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Is open source the right way to bring Innovation to market?
- Is open source the right way to bring innovation to market?Not really newsMore like a sales pitch.In-memory databases have been around for a long time and it does not take a rocket scientist to know that accessing RAM is faster than accessing disk. Adding in a object orientation to the...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Databases, IS open source, innovation, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Is open source the right way to bring Innovation to market?
- Is open source now the right way to bring truly innovative ideas to market? Terracotta CEO Amit Pankey Pandey thinks so. Pankey told ZDNet "In the last year we've seen our market penetration go up by more than an order of magnitude.We attribute a lot...
- Tags: Innovation, Terracotta, Storage, Sales Strategy, Databases, Open Source, Hardware, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Steve Ballmer talks heroes and Innovation
- Steve Ballmer talks heroes and innovationAh, yes Billy's boys...Really smart heroic people, start their own business and don't wander in circles sniffing each others butts like a pack of dogs, or Micro serfs.Microsoft is the last place you would look for these qualities.
- Tags: Leadership, Steve Ballmer, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Chef (exe)
- Chef is Windows software to help manage your recipes and your kitchen. Tired of flipping through your cookbooks time and time again? Are your family recipes fading on stacks of notecards? Get Chef and put those problems behind you. Once your recipes are entered into Chef, they become extremely easy...
- Tags: Innovation, Family, Chef, Leadership, Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-03-12
- Ask.com: Innovation doesn't always pan out
- Ask.com in the last year or so had been a nice little Petri dish. It launched AskCity, tinkered with its interface, created universal search results and became a credible alternative to Google. The problem: Ask.com couldn't grow its base of users. With that backdrop, Interactive Corp. (IAC)...
- Tags: Innovation, Ask.com, Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- businessfirst: Ideas to help small companies retain their successful entrepreneurial spirit
- Innovation and enterprise is almost universally associated with small businesses. Typically, 95% of all innovations occur in businesses with less than 100 employees. When companies grow past this point the innovation is stifled by processes and bureaucracy.Download this white paper to read case studies of how larger organisations have rekindled...
- Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-02-26
- Bungee Connect beta goes public, adds oomph to development and deployment as a service
- Bungee Labs continues its march toward "platform as a service" (PaaS) with today's announcement that it has opened Bungee Connect as a public beta, inviting all developers to, in Bungee's words, "get inspired, get started, and get involved."Bungee Connect is an end-to-end environment that allows developers to build desktop-like applications...
- Tags: Innovation, Developer, Web, Amazon.com Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Integration, Bungee Labs, WideLens, Demonstration Video, Strategic Planning, Channel Management, Strategy, Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Google's Rich Miner: Users will see ads and like it
- In an interview with the BBC, Rich Miner, Google's VP for Mobile technology said Google is "marching to plan" from what they announced in November. While developers have been creating programs with the Android SDK since then, many consider the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona to be Android's coming-out party....
- Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Advertisement, Phone, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Google warns that Microsoft could monopolize the Internet with Yahoo
- Google's SVP of Corporate Developer and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond posted a statement about Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. The gist of the statement is that Microsoft could "attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC." ...
- Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-03
- No more talk of proprietary Innovation please
- No more talk of proprietary innovation pleaseI'm blasting past all the headlines, but ...Of course I had to stop for your take, and as usual, you see through the noise immediately. I love your slant!btw: your 'parrot' link is screwed up.What?Your article s a rambling mess. What are trying...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, proprietary innovation, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- No more talk of proprietary Innovation please
- Yahoo! (Picture from Yodel Anecdotal.) One of the most popular claims here by open source opponents is that proprietary companies do all the innovating. Those days are done. Spending your stock, your cash, and the change under your seat cushions for an operating competitor...
- Tags: Innovation, Fact, Microsoft Corp., Wall Street, Leadership, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Open access is assured on 700MHz spectrum
- So -- the infamous C block of 700MHz spectrum, the nationwide spectrum that television broadcasters formally used and that Google is bidding on, will officially carry open access rules. The auction had to reach $4.6 billion and it did today, with a bid of $4.71 billion. That...
- Tags: Innovation, Spectrum, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwo
- Virgin Galactic showed off models of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Space, innovation, Virgin, technology, Larry Dignan
- Image galleries 2008-01-23
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