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Restoring America’s Competitiveness — Restoring “Big R”
An HBR article summary ( Restoring America’s Competitiveness) really caught my eye when I read ” Now, the U.S. will finally have to take the problem seriously. Rebuilding its wealth-generating machine—that is, restoring the ability of enterprises to develop and manufacture high-technology products in America—is the only way the country can hope to pay down [...]
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Xerox PARC — Creating the Office of the Future
This interactive timeline is amazing! (A bit slow, but wow!) Talk about innovation, this list of milestones is just one technological hit after another.
Xerox PARC Milestones
Just to list a few of the inventions on the timeline: Laser Printing: 1971, Object Oriented Programming: 1972, Ethernet:1973, WORM Program: 1978, Ubiquitious Computing: 1988, Electronic Reuseable Paper:2000. Plus [...]
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Xerox PARC — Creating the Office of the Future
This interactive timeline is amazing! (A bit slow, but wow!) Talk about innovation, this list of milestones is just one technological hit after another.
Xerox PARC Milestones
Just to list a few of the inventions on the timeline: Laser Printing: 1971, Object Oriented Programming: 1972, Ethernet:1973, WORM Program: 1978, Ubiquitious Computing: 1988, Electronic Reuseable Paper:2000. Plus [...]
Innovation
June 30th, 2009 by Gene A. Wright
I recently met a blogger and strategist of a software company at a technical conference and found him to be very interesting. He pointed me to his blog Pyke’s Place (his name is Jon Pyke). He told me he likes to blog about a variety of things and that I should take a look. Well, [...]
Read more...June 25th, 2009 by Gene A. Wright
So, just because 72% of the search industry is dominated by GOOGLE (according to the source linked in the article) we have been labeled as GOOGLE Junkies. The article mentions a number of alternative and specialty search tools, but one I found interesting was WORIO (BTW Powered by GOOGLE) .
The article, from FAST COMPANY, entitled [...]
June 25th, 2009 by Gene A. Wright
When creating our technology strategy, we need a full understanding of our business strategy and the market (economy), we must consider purchasing other firms or platforms as part of that strategy. The following linked article on FORBES.com describes some of the thought process.
Why ORACLE wants Solaris
Is this a good idea for ORACLE? For anyone else? GOOGLE Perhaps? [...]
June 25th, 2009 by Gene A. Wright
Continuing with a bit of a theme around “design”, we have an article that suggests five ways to use “design” in this economic time of recovery. I like the idea of recovery versus crisis, don’t you?
“Roadmap for Recovery: Five Ways to Come Out on Top”
Do you think “design” can play the role the author suggests? [...]
Strategy
Article: “Creating Cults and Culture with Design”June 25th, 2009 by Gene A. Wright
Design, and by that I do not mean “engineering design” is central to successful new products. An article entitled “Creating Cults and Culture with Design“ from FAST COMPANY. The article talks about APPLE (of course) but also gives examples of other companies that are successful. Southwest Airlines and METHOD. However, one of the issues is [...]
Read more...General
Article: “Creating Cults and Culture with Design”June 25th, 2009 by Gene A. Wright
Design, and by that I do not mean “engineering design” is central to successful new products. An article entitled “Creating Cults and Culture with Design“ from FAST COMPANY. The article talks about APPLE (of course) but also gives examples of other companies that are successful. Southwest Airlines and METHOD. However, one of the issues is [...]
Read more...New Product Management
Article: “Creating Cults and Culture with Design”June 25th, 2009 by Gene A. Wright
Design, and by that I do not mean “engineering design” is central to successful new products. An article entitled “Creating Cults and Culture with Design“ from FAST COMPANY. The article talks about APPLE (of course) but also gives examples of other companies that are successful. Southwest Airlines and METHOD. However, one of the issues is [...]
Read more...Knowledge Management
What is an RSS Feed?June 3rd, 2009 by Gene A. Wright
Personally I think that RSS is one of the most under used, cool technologies of the internet age. Notice I did not say new because it has been around for quite a while. In fact, many people are already using the technology when they get news updates, weather updates, or just about any other notification through [...]
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