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 [...]
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 [...]
On the website of HBS Working Knowledge you can read an interview with Amy Edmondson (Professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School) about the question “Are Great Teams Less Productive?“. In fact [...] there are built-in tensions between learning and performance, which smart organizations must learn to recognize and deal [...]
A group of Stanford students had to make a short video summarizing the topics of their innovation class with Bob Sutton. Gus Bitdinger gives you an insight to what he has learned: [youtube JrlSHZ0anAM nolink] It’s not easy being so large and complex
At MIT World you can watch a stream video of Richard K. Templeton (President and Chief Executive Officer, Texas Instruments) speaking about “Building Technology that Matters: Global Opportunities in Engineering“. One of his central conclusions is summarized in the lecture notes as follows: The convergence of electrical engineering and life sciences will create a robust [...]
