NPR is featuring, at its site, an excerpt from The Shallows titled “The Very Image of a Book” [...]. [It] describes how pundits have, for about two centuries now, been eagerly proclaiming the imminent death of the book. And, over and over again, they’ve been proven wrong. (Nicholas Carr) credit: Royalty-Free/Corbis There’s life in the [...]
Tina Dam, senior director of international domain names at ICANN, called it “the biggest change in the Internet in 40 years”. What is he talking about? What would you expect? Maybe social networks? No, he his talking about the new multilingual domain names like adresses in arabic or cyrillic. One may think that this is [...]
Harvard Professor Gary Pisano is currently working on a paper about “The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate“. The odd couple science and business works side by side in the process of economic growth but a real cooperation is quite infrequent. One example are corporate industrial laboratories but this form of organized science [...]
Patricia Seybold conducted a case study concerning “The Anatomy of Innovation”. One of the main results is a kind of checklist for innovations within large organizations: Hire an outside renegade. Have him build and sell his vision. Let him create his own team. Locate the team off-site. Take a blank slate approach. Create a blueprint [...]
Some things do not need an innovation. “Events” like Christmas are innovated enough by far calling them “Xmas”. credit: Manuela Michalski (via The Design blog) Other – even incremental – innovations concerning Christmas (like this type of tree) are imho not necessary – although I really like the design Merry Christmas and a happy New [...]
