Business Strategy, Marketing, Innovation, Technology, New Product Management



    GOOGLE (and others) Tracking your Wireless Address

    From “Digital Society”
    Google tracking and mapping your wireless devices
    From the blog post “The MAC address which can uniquely identify a person’s laptop, smartphone, or any other device with 802.11 Wi-Fi capability”.
    What do you think?  What will you do?

Innovation

Fortune Google 24/7 Blog
July 15th, 2010 by Gene A. Wright

From Fortune Magazine
Fortune GOOGLE 24/7
This blog looks like a great way to keep up with all things GOOGLE from a business and technology standpoint.  I will be checking it often.
What do you think?  Any other sources so dedicated besides GOOGLE itself?

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Knowledge Workers and Bitsmiths
July 12th, 2010 by Gene A. Wright

From Harvard Business Review Blog
Do your Knowledge Workers have a Bitsmith?
This post presents a wonderful concept that points out the need for specialized tools for the knowledge era.  That of a “Bitsmith”.   Bitsmiths, according to the post ” are people who have deep knowledge of both the work content and the tools used [...]

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FORD to use Web to Harvest Product Ideas
April 25th, 2010 by Gene A. Wright

Thanks Peter for the article suggestion
From Detroit News
FORD Product Idea Website Article
From the website “Ford Motor Co. is creating a “idea portal” on its Web site, to give consumers the opportunity to suggest new features, allow others to critique them and vote for which ones should be considered by Ford’s product development team.”
Seems like a [...]

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Effective Gating — Gates with Teeth
April 25th, 2010 by Gene A. Wright

This article is from Marketing Management — You may need to be a Member of AMA to Access all content
Effective Gating by Robert G. Cooper
Effective Gating ABSTRACT
This article is a great reminder that we have TOO many projects in our product development pipeline.
We have ineffective gates (and NPD Processes) that do not KILL [...]

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Strategy

NSF and Birth of the Internet
April 24th, 2010 by Gene A. Wright

Thank you Hugh
From the site of the National Science Foundation
Birth of the Internet Interactive Presentation
This interactive timeline has some great pictures, text and video segments that talk about the history of the development of the internet.
What was your favorite part?  Mine is in the 1990’s section.  “Tools to Untangle the Internet”.  Development of the [...]

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General

Quotable Quotes aka QQ
August 5th, 2010 by Gene A. Wright

I am going to begin a new category on this blog called “Quotable Quotes”.
These are quotes taken from readings that I think are worthwhile posting.  I will do my best to cite the source of the quotation.  Those students who wish to comment on QQ may do so with thoughtful comments.

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New Product Management

YouTube Category Killer over iTunes?
August 4th, 2010 by Gene A. Wright

From Fast Company
Check out the graphs and trends.
State of Internet Music
From the article “Interestingly, it wasn’t Apple that Garland viewed as the most important name in music, even though the company’s iPods, iPhones, and iTunes indicate otherwise. “YouTube is increasingly the category killer,” argued Garland. “When people ask me what is the biggest name [...]

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Knowledge Management

US Army Utilizes Mobile Tech and Portals for KM
January 20th, 2010 by Gene A. Wright

From Government Computer News
Thanks Hugh
Mobile phones are used to access the Army’s portal for soldiers to access information from their Knowledge Online Portal.
“The Army Knowledge Online portal, a repository of online information, distance-learning tools, e-mail and other resources for 2.6 million Army users. The Web-based service is now part of a broader service known as [...]

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