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?
From CNN
Technology has enabled the “officeless” generation. Do you think this will continue to grow as a way of working? Will this just become an extension of our offices and work anywhere/everywhere world? Is this a good thing?
Should we as managers encourage and plan for this work-style?
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?
Thank you Jason
From: The New York Times
With our choices for entertainment and “content consumption” being ever wider, and the traditional venues for advertising becoming increasingly less effective, advertisers are looking for more places to place TARGETED ads.
Product Placement in Music Videos
Are you seeing more of this? Are you tolerant of this? Do you expect this? Will you pay more for no ads?
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 PDMA Visions
This study, once again points out how poorly we manage our NPD Projects. We do not seem to think of the collection of projects as a portfolio and do not manage them as such. If we are to achieve our strategic goals for NPD as well as our objectives for each of the projects we have in process, we need to manage them as a portfolio.
Too many projects and poor decision making is at the root cause of poor success rates for both strategic and tactics objectives.
This research connects to a previous post regarding an article by Robert Cooper Cooper Article
What do you think? Am I overly concerned?
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?
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 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?
Thanks Hugh
From Government Technology
Enterprise Architecture Demystified
From the article, and very well said:
“Enterprise Architecture is derived from the understanding that technology exists to fulfill business needs. Which technologies are chosen should not be a matter of “coolness” and is only partially a matter of cost: more properly it is a matter of what technologies get the job done. And what constitutes “the job” must, of course, be defined by the executive branch, the legislature, the agency head, etc., not by the technologists who, while perhaps experts at what they do, are often more interested and aware of bits and bytes than in agency purposes or political needs.”
So, who should be setting the agenda for IT?
From Strategy and Business
Profits Down, Spending Steady: The Global Innovation 1000
“Booz & Company’s annual study of the world’s biggest corporate R&D spenders finds that most companies have stuck with their innovation programs despite the recession — and many are boosting spending to compete more effectively in the upturn.”
My take: Innovation should ALWAYS be a priority. R&D for New Products, a priority.
What do you think?
From CIO Insight
“In many of the companies I wrote about, IT was absolutely central to the business model. The CIOs were very front and center in the design of the business. Even if the companies weren’t IT-based, there was a sense of IT as the great enabler that allows them to do much of what they do.
That’s contrary to the notion that IT is no longer strategic because it’s ubiquitous. That’s a very dangerous argument, because the extension of that argument is that because it’s ubiquitous and no longer strategic, it can be relegated deep into the organization.” “At every one of these companies I’ve written about, IT was very strategic and enabled them to adapt and develop new business models. Therefore, it was critically important to the executives and the founders to understand not just how IT was working inside their company, but what it could do.”
And there you go.
What do you think?
From Wired Magazine
Craig’s List?
Twitter?
Kindle?
Should we be designing products that are “good enough” (good enuf) but not great? Is there a “good enuf rvlutn” going on?
Thanks Hugh
You Tube Video with Entertaining presentation by Simon Wardley on Cloud Computing
“Cloud computing is the convergence of three major trends: virtualization, where applications are separated from infrastructure; utility computing, where server capacity is accessed across a grid as a variably priced shared service; and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) where applications are available on demand on a subscription basis. ”
Blog Post on Private Cloud on Industrialization of IT
From the blog ” Ikeep coming back to Simon Wardley’s comparison of cloud computing to the industrial revolution. There’s more to that analogy than meets the eye. Fits nicely with Nicholas Carr’s views in the Big Switch.
We’ve begun to witness the industrialization of IT.
Simply put — this is no minor industry transition. How we build, operate and consume IT will likely be forever changed in a handful of years”
Are you ready to invest or move your operation to “the cloud”?
While checking out the CDC for social media (Thanks Chris) I noticed that there is a CDC Island in Second Life.
They are also on Facebook
The CDC seems to be adapting “all” of the newest technologies on the web. Interesting.
Have you visited either?
Thanks Chris
The CDC is using Social Media to get the word out about what is happening related to H1N1 etc.
According to the CDC website, ” Help us spread the word and prevent novel H1N1 flu by sharing interactive tools with friends, co-workers and family members!”
Specific Website for H1N1 and Social Media
Seems like a great way to spread the word (I could not resist). What do you think?
Thanks David.
From the article “The result of the collaboration between Twitter and Peek is a version of the device built exclusively for sending tweets.
Clad in “Twitter blue,” the TwitterPeek allows all the same functionality of a desktop Twitter client – reading tweets, sending tweets, replying, retweeting and direct messaging – only it gives users that access on the go.”
Will you be getting one?
Thanks for the link Hugh.
And, my favorite link Jobs’ Greatest Hits — A Timeline
So, is he the CEO of the decade? Is he one of the most innovative manager/leaders ever?
What do you think?
Thanks Hugh
GOOGLE Maps Navigation (Beta) Video
Scroll Down for Video
Awesome! Perhaps we know why some are predicting iPhone domination by the Droid! Can I build this into my car? Are you listening Toyota?
Check out the slide shows too!
Voice command. FREE no ads (for now)
What do you think?
CIO Magazine has a Slideshow of statistics from surveys that presents the use of Facebook at work.
How can Facebook we used at work where it would be a productive use of work time and IT resources?
