Once again a “definition” of innovation – this time by Timothy Schigel, the founder and CEO of ShareThis: There are degrees of innovation, but at its core I would submit that innovation is the result of applying a non-obvious modification to a system resulting in improvements to quality, performance or cost that exceed current expectations. [...]
Because a friend of mine missed the “showdown post” of the format war series on cilinc.net, I was motivated to make up for my lapse: After the recent announcements of Best Buy, Netflix and Wal-Mart to support Blu-ray the HD DVD format kissed the dust. Only some days later Toshiba drew the obvious conclusion and [...]
Via the Endless Innovation Blog I’ve found an interesting post about things fostering a culture that supports innovation. Here are a few strategies suggested by experts to encourage innovation that might surprise you: Hire naive misfits who argue with you; encourage failure; avoid letting client input limit your vision; and fully commit to risky ventures. [...]
IBM’s project “Kittyhawk” is aiming to build a collosal computer, that is capable “of hosting the entire internet as an application.” Or to cite Nicholas Carr: one computer to rule them all We hypothesize that for a large class of web-scale workloads the Blue Gene/P platform is an order of magnitude more efficient to purchase [...]
Here you find the answer of Bjarne Stroustrup, the father of C++: I basically agree with Edison: “1% inspiration and 99% perspirationâ€. There are few great ideas, and many good ones. Even the great ones require much work to validate them and to make them into useful tools for someone. I think he called it [...]
