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?
From Managing Automation Blog — Chris Chiappinelli
This blog post plus video sums up the business challenges and requirements of the design-build (Continuous Product Development) business for industrial automation well. http://www.enhancedautomation.com
A focus on the customer requires a focus on quality, cost, specification and reality; often many of these concepts clash.
Are there other challenges?
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?
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?
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 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?
From Google Blog
This video explains how Personalized Search works. Are we getting closer to Web 3.0?
What do you think?
Thank you Wendy and Mike.
From The Today Show
Esquire Magazine Augmented Reality Video
What do you think?
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?
Thanks Hugh
From CNN
Twitter Reveals Square Payment Device
Payment by mobile phone, hardly new idea. We have “smart cards” already. Integration with devices….. seems cool.
From Hugh ……. Cool, but I think wireless version will over take this quickly or proximity like an ipass used at the toll gate. Loved the use of electricity generated to drive this by swiping, a mini linear generator! I wonder what other daily motions we could harvest power, like walking, don’t you….
However, the last line of the article is HUGE.
What do you think? Cool?
From Fast Company
Google Unveils Real Time Search
From the article……
“But it’s clear that Google’s execs have tapped Twitter as the real winner in real-time status, despite Facebooks half-billion userbase, as these two were presented right at the end. You might think that’s about as real-time as you can get, but the team noted they won’t stop until the speed of light around the world is the only barrier to getting real time search data.”
Look out BING!
Are they now up-to-date? What next?
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 Wired Magazine
Chris Anderson “The Future of Free”
This article and and 37 minute video gets you thinking about disruption and the future of free. Is everything that is digital eventually free?
Is “free” a marketing tool or something else?
