I don’t know how many times I’ve heard that statement. Too many, I expect. Unfortunately it usually means that engaging with the root cause of […]
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Innovation [2010-06-21]
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. Does location really matter? [strategy+business] […]
Continue readingVacuum flasks: fulfilling a need
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks in the House Secrets exhibit. James Dewar invented the vacuum flask in 1892 to keep laboratory gases cold. […]
Continue readingWhat I like about jet engines
Rolls-Royce{{1}} (the engineering company, not the car manufacturer) is an interesting firm. From near disaster in the 70s, when the company was on the brink […]
Continue readingSome new rules for IT
The other week I had a go at capturing the rules of enterprise IT{{1}}. The starting point was a few of those beery discussions we […]
Continue readingInnovation linkage
I gave a talk on innovation at Chisholm tonight in their Business Innovation Seminar Series, and promised to provide links to some of my references. […]
Continue readingExperiments in delinkification
Nick Carr’s recent blog post on delinkification{{1}} (putting the links at the end of a post as footers, rather than as hyperlinks in the text) […]
Continue readingThe rules of enterprise IT
As I’ve pointed out before (possibly as I’m quite fond of games{{1}}) the game of enterprise IT has a long an proud history. I’ve also […]
Continue readingInnovation [2010-06-07]
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. The global innovation paradox [The […]
Continue readingBusiness is like a train…
The following analogy popped up the other day in an email discussion with a friend. Running a business is a bit like being the Fat […]
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