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Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
This issue:
- The Disruption Talk [A VC]
Fred Wilson (a VC in New York) partly crowd-sourced a presentation on disruption, presented at Google, recorded and stashed on YouTube.
- In-N-Out Burger’s six secrets for out-and-out success [Daily Finance]
On the heels of mounting cynicism generated by Wall Street bailouts and the perception that corporate leaders are gaming the system to make a profit, at least one American company is proving that businesses can survive and even thrive while sticking to traditional values.
- Farmers Didn’t Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming. [Ben Casnocha]
There’s a cliche in innovation / entrepreneurship which says, “Scratch your own itch.” That is, solve problems that you know really well. This is not always so.
- Obama’s Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators [Harvard Business]
Barak Obama’s presidential bid succeeded was a research lab for using social media in a political campaign. It differs from yesterday’s political organizations as much as Google and Threadless differ from yesterday’s corporations: all are a tiny handful of truly new, 21st century institutions in the world today. Here are the seven rules his campaign lived by.
Tags: Barack Obama, Barak, Barak Obama, Ben Casnocha, Daily Finance, disruption, Fred Wilson, Google, Harvard, Harvard Business, Illinois, In-N-Out Burger, Innovation, invention, New York, Obama, Social Media, Threadless, United States, YouTube
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
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Tags: American art, BusinessWeek, design, designer, Designer Notes, Google, Innovation, Jeff Koons, Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker, pantherhouse, Public art, Science and technology studies, Shelton Wet, Sid Meier, Technology, The New Yorker, Vacuum cleaner, Visual arts
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
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Tags: ABC News, Apple, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Are Apple, Bloomberg Businessweek, Boston Consulting Group, BusinessWeek, Computing, Cultural Fuel, David Lynch, Electronics, Google, Human–computer interaction, Innovation, Paleofuture, physical products, Steve Jobs, Technology, World Wide Web
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around
the Internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
This issue:
- Inside Google’s design process [BusinessWeek: Innovation]
Google takes an integrated approach to innovation, pulling together design, analysis and engineering to create an iterative processes which helps them nurture small ideas into big products.
- Horizontal Innovation Networks: By and for Users [Eric von Hippel]
Innovation development, production, distribution and consumption networks can be built up horizontally—with actors consisting only of innovation users (more precisely, “user/self-manufacturers”). Some open source software projects are examples of such networks, and examples can be found in the case of physical products as well. In this article, we discuss three conditions under which user innovation networks can function entirely independently of manufacturers. We then explore related empirical evidence, and conclude that conditions favorable to horizontal user innovation networks are often present in the economy.
- Jim Jarmusch On Stealing From Everywhere [PSFK]
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination…
- If Isaac Asimov designed your computer… [Educated Guesswork]
Like nearly all science fiction authors of that era, Asimov got computers pretty much all wrong, in at least three major ways.
Tags: BusinessWeek, consumption networks, design, Educated Guesswork, Eric von Hippel, Google, Horizontal Innovation Networks, Innovation, Intelligence, Isaac Asimov, Jim Jarmusch, open source software projects, physical products, PSFK, Science, Science and technology studies, Technological change, Technology, User innovation, user innovation networks
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
This issue:
- Engineers rule [Forbes]
At American auto companies, finance guys and marketers rise to the top. Not at Honda.
- China’s long road to innovation [strategy+business]
Beijing is mandating an increase in home-grown R&D, but Chinese companies face long odds in meeting international standards of innovation.
- Cisco CEO John Chambers on speeding up innovation [BusinessWeek]
In Chambers’ view, business is on the verge—not in the midst—of a dramatic transformation, a huge leap forward in productivity built on collaboration made possible by Web 2.0-style tools similar to YouTube, FaceBook, and Wikipedia but adapted to the corporate environment. “Our children, with their social network[ing], have presented us with the future of productivity,” he emphatically told the crowd of about 4,500 executives.
- The kids are alright [Economist]
Worries about the damage the internet may be doing to young people has produced a mountain of books—a suitably old technology in which to express concerns about the new. Robert Bly claims that, thanks to the internet, the “neo-cortex is finally eating itself”. Today’s youth may be web-savvy, but they also stand accused of being unread, bad at communicating, socially inept, shameless, dishonest, work-shy, narcissistic and
indifferent to the needs of others.
Tags: Beijing, BusinessWeek, CEO, China, Cisco, Cisco Systems, Computing, Deep packet inspection, Economist, Facebook, finance guys, Forbes, Google, Honda, Innovation, John Chambers, Person Communication and Meetings, Robert Bly, Science and technology studies, strategy+business, Technology, The Economist, Videotelephony, YouTube
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
This issue:
Tags: Android, Bombing of Dresden in World War II, BusinessWeek, cellular telephone, Civil defense siren, Computing, Dresden, G1, G1/Android, G1/Android mobile phone, Germany, Google, Government, Human–computer interaction, Innovation, Man-Made Disaster, Markus Kison, NASA, NASA spin-off, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, PSFK, Safety, World Wide Web
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet.
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Tags: Add-Art, Amp, Art, BusinessWeek, Chris Lehmann, Computing, FastCompany.com, Google, Human–computer interaction, Innovation, Internet, P&G, Science Leadership Academy, strategy+business, teacher, World Wide Web
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