Archive for February, 2007
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Transmission Interruption
To paraphrase the words of broadcasters around the world – at least the English speaking ones – I apologise in advance for the break in transmission. I’m off to India tomorrow for the next phase of the Innovaro Technology Futures programme. When you’re running a programme like this, spare time is gold dust, and so [...]
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Innovation environments
I’m proposing doing some work with a public sector client who wants to take a serious look at the culture of innovation. As part of this I’ve been putting some focus on innovation spaces and come across two really worthwhile sources. The first is from Leland Maschmeyer where he writes with a lean towards agency [...]
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
This is not innovation
For a while now I have been toying with the idea of starting coverage of advertisements which use the word “innovation” in them, and running a critique. As you might anticipate, this was going to fall under the category of “This is not innovation.” Why do this? It’s linked to the innovation backlash that BusinessWeek [...]
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
An innovation hype cycle
Over at Jugaad Niti Bhan picks up on the BusinessWeek discussion and posts an insightful look at the backlash against innovation. She makes the connection between the Gartner Hype Cycle – which, in itself, is very insightful – and the trend for media reporting about innovation. Niti makes the point that after all the hype [...]
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
How to hold a virtual workshop
Over at Open the Future, Jamais Cascio has a fascinating post about holding virtual online workshops. It’s well worth a read as he details the tools he used, how they worked and ideas for future implementations. Next week I’m on a plane again, this time to Bangalore where we will be flying in about forty [...]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
The Innovation Backlash
As many people have observed, the word ‘innovation’ is overused and little understood. In todays business environment, your chances of making sense of it are about the same as your chances of successfully translating the drinks menu at Starbucks for a non-coffee drinker*. When this starts to happen with a trend – especially in the [...]
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
Small and distributed computing
Will the future of computing be simple, small and distributed? Flexible electronics might bring that vision to a reality. Consider this quote from a recent New Scientist article, which in turn quotes Hermann Hauser of Amadeus Capital Partners, investor in Cambridge company Plastic Logic. : People often think of electronic circuits doing very complex things, [...]
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Technology Futures
Just back from a week in the UK working on a Technology Futures programme for Innovaro. We assembled a wide range of world experts from around the globe to build a picture of what the world might look like in twenty years time from a technology perspective. In the same room we had people that [...]
