From Engineering.com
While this is a fun time waster. What does it tell us about the future of interactive technology? Will 3D TV etc. be big? What does this mean for business? How can you use the emerging 3D technology to create competitive advantage?
What do you think?
Thanks Naif
These two videos have Pranav Mistry explaining how the Sixth Sense Came to be at TED India.
What do you think?
From Fast Company
Check out the graphs and trends.
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 in music in my opinion, they want me to say Apple. I usually answer: YouTube.”
The music business is shifting. It is setting the stage for our business models in “everything” to change. Products? Services? Can you have a product without a service, or, for that matter, a service that does not somehow connect to the web? There are lessons to learn in marketing, product development, strategy, information technology, and just about everything community and commercial.
From the article ” Pandora now represents 1.7% of all radio listening–really a shocking figure to think about.”. Wow, FREE service, possibly paid service overtaking the ad space? Lessons to be learned here?
Choice rules. Custom selection of music is killing “album” sales. From the article, ”The music business historically has been built around albums,” explained Silverman. “This album-centrism is like saying the sun revolves around the Earth. We don’t listen to albums now; we listen to collections of songs.”
What are the Lessons to be learned from this article?
From Fortune Magazine
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?
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 to support the work. In other words, they are almost as expert in derivatives or computer design as they are in computer-programming languages. Because they understand both the domain and the tools, bitsmiths can take an idea from concept to implementation quickly .”
The article makes the case that high performance teams need to have a “bitsmith” just as many towns in the “old west” had blacksmiths to create the tolls they needed.
What do you think of this concept?
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 great idea.
Article on FORD Site About Idea Gathering
What do you think? Should they allow ALL comments to be seen by everyone?
From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100413/AUTO01/4130330/1148/Ford-to-harvest-product-ideas-from-Web#ixzz0m9T8mjH4
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
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 bad projects.
We do not have effective (NPD) portfolio management systems and governance processes.
We have TOO many small, incremental projects to be an effective (NPD) profit growth engine.
What do you think?
Thanks Hugh
This article is from GOOGLE
From the article ” Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists.”
I have always enjoyed the doodles, but did not know the history. One of my Favorites is featured in the article, Einstein’s Birthday
Perhaps you might submit a suggestion. Check out the history and pick a favorite.
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 Web Browser. Check out how the “number of computers on the internet grows” Also, take a look at the sequential map of the growth of the internet from 1969 through 2007.
From Corporate Report Wisconsin
Thanks Mary for sharing this article with me.
We have been discussing the use of social media in the marketing mix. We had been looking for specific examples of success with including Twitter in the marketing mix and we find two in this article.
From the article “The Tweets drove recipients to a Web site where they could receive more information,“We scheduled 14 surgeries because of that Twitter cast.”
Here is one example of what appears to be a pretty good ROI on a social media investment.
What examples do you have?
From Harvard Business School
“The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How we Innovate”
This working paper discusses the concept of the emergence of small, technical and science-based firms that are doing much of the innovating because “The professions of management and of science are still largely separate: Scientists receive no formal training in management, and MBAs receive no training in science. This is a striking gap.” I would say the same is true for engineering thus pointing out the importance of engineers and scientists to secure degrees in business and management.
What do you think?
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 Defense Knowledge Online.”
Mini solar chargers and video goggles are also used.
“Army officials are tapping into the ingenuity of its young workforce and responding to their predisposition for smarter gadgets at the same time by developing an array of Go Mobile devices — new communications and conferencing devices that can fit into a soldier’s pocket while going easy on the service’s pocketbook.”
Sounds like we should all be following in the Army’s footsteps for our firms. What do you think?
From KM Edge
Referred by Evelyn of MSOE Rader School of Business MG-750
KM Edge (blog) from APQC presents a wonderful PPT which looks at three Ba Based Knowledge Management approaches in Japanese Companies. As we study Knowledge Management, we learn more of the concept of Ba. This presentation gives us some insight into the power of Ba.
Ba Based Knowledge Management Approaches
Comments?
Thank you Wendy
Home Depot 3D Interactive Gift Card VIDEO Be patient it takes time
Home Depot gets into Augmented Reality with its Gift Card.
Think it will sell more gift cards?
Thank you Wendy and Mike.
From The Today Show
Esquire Magazine Augmented Reality Video
What do you think?
Thanks Shawn
From Wired
Bionic Finger Article and Video
This is an amazing technology.
From the article ” ProDigits, as the device is called, can help its users bend, touch, pick up and point — reflecting almost all the key functions of a natural hand. The prosthetic fingers are for those who have a partial hand, where the absence of fingers is due either to congenital anomalies or to amputation, says Touch Bionics.”
What do you think? What is next?
Thanks Shawn.
From Wired
API explained with examples.
Geeks to Music Industry: APIs Can Set You Free
From the article ” Behind every mashup of two or more online services, there’s an API. That’s short for application programming interface, a set of commands that lets programmers write new code that controls an existing piece of software. Many APIs are proprietary, but the net is full of open APIs that let anyone, say, play a YouTube video on their own web page or overlay bike routes on a Google map”
When will you suggest that your company build an API?
From JS Online
Cyber Hijacking Habush, Habush, and Rotier vs. Cannon and Dunphy
We have talked about this in class and it was a topic of conversation at Thanksgiving this year (complete with demos and source code reviews).
The practice is quite common and now is being challenged. Stay tuned. Right to Privacy laws? Copyrights? Interesting.
What do you think? Should you be able to buy your “competitor’s keywords” company name)?
