Posts Tagged ‘innovation’

Power of (open) technology

Jeff Atwood on the real power of netbooks: these modest little boxes are marvels — inspiring evidence of the inexorable march of powerful, open computing technology to everyman and everywhere Add to this Kevin Kelly in his interview at orionmagazine and you’ll see what I mean. And now go and watch Jason Calacanis rant on […]

Next Conference 2010

I am not sure if I can make it then – but the mission sounds just right: The motto for the next conference is Game Changers. Game Changers break rules and redefine business models. They are innovative and take risks, free from the burdens of mass marketing and mainstream. Companies that change the game bet […]

Four Quadrants of Innovation

via business-strategy-innovation.com Well, we don’t have a dearth of innovation management models exactly (see e.g. Innovation Models – part four et al.). Yet some good ideas in Hutch’s post – anyway, models like these can serve as excellent conversation starters too …

What matters now

Seth Godin asked a group of people to provide ideas – resulting in a +80 pages pdf, which you can download at his blog (or here, it’s a pdf called “What matters now”). Everyone of them designed a page on what they’re pondering, tweaking and thinking about: Hmm, well, let’s see if big thoughts and […]

Profits, passion, purpose

This has been a highlight of this second day at LeWeb 2009. Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com, blew away the crowd this morning at LeWeb with an inspiring speech about meaning/purpose and happiness. A long applause followed his presentation. Sebastien compiled a write-up of Tony’s talk here, some tasty bits on the real success factors in […]

Untangling some strings …

… about the cloud, cloud OSes and open source code – this week Google opened up its Chromium OS, VirtualBox images and all and every good consultant is writing and talking about it. It can boot in seconds (and should be run with solid-state hard drives) … and is supposed to “live in the cloud“: […]

Unentschieden

Wünsch Dir was ist ein kleines Experiment, welches auf Basis des Twitter Profils einige Produkte empfiehlt.Vielleicht eine Methode, die bald anstehende Frage nach dem Weihnachtswunsch einfacher zu beantworten.Der Dienst setzt dabei auf den Amazon Produktkatalog auf. Jeder Anwender hat die Möglichkeit von einem beliebigen anderen Twitter Nutzer die Wünsche zu erfassen und zu modifizieren. OK, […]