Lynda M. Applegate, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, published an article called Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage. Therein she lists guidelines [that] can help you leverage disruption to turn ideas into opportunities to create sustainable business advantage: Listen to—and learn from—the market Expand your horizons Identify potential disruptors that could [...]

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New technologies are becoming so complex that many are beyond the possibility of democracy playing a role in their development. Thomas P. Hughes You may want to read this NY Times article if you’re interested in the area of conflict between open or democratic and elitist or top-down innovations.

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Peter Norvig, director of Google Research, talks about future trends and outstanding problems in search. These are the directions of impact: The two biggest projects are machine translation and the speech project. Translation and speech went all the way from one or two people working on them to, now, live systems. In general, we think [...]

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Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Steve Jobs (Apple) were talking about their companies, their relationsship and definitly some funny stuff – really enjoyable. [youtube M3tUkyCRp0A nolink] I don’t feel that it is necessary to comment it but I think while watching the interview we should be aware that these two guys are amoung the most successful [...]

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Today the BusinessWeek has published this year’s list of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies“. Credit: Getty Images via BusinessWeek The leaders of companies on this year’s BusinessWeek-BCG list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies recognize that developing breakthrough products, revamping operational processes, and coming up with new business models doesn’t happen overnight. Instead of relying [...]

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