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What is innovation for you?

Posted by maz on February 1st, 2008

Here you find the answer of Bjarne Stroustrup, the father of C++: I basically agree with Edison: “1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”. 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 [...]

Who needs a CIO?

Posted by maz on October 30th, 2007

[...] for the majority of the economy, a CIO demonstrates a desperate attempt to appear innovative. Silicon Valley Sleuth To my mind this is a bit too strikingly worded but the quintessence is important: just installing a CIO has nothing to do with innovation. A professionally manged IT (in-house or out-sourced) should be the basis [...]

business schools and the orthogonal misbelief

Posted by maz on September 25th, 2007

Last week the Wall Street Journal ranked America’s most innovative business schools. The survey is based on the opinions and behaviors of 4,430 M.B.A. recruiters who hire full-time business-school graduates. Here are the top ten: (1) Stanford (2) MIT Sloan (3) Kellogg (4) Carnegie Mellon (5) Dartmouth Tuck (6) Cal-Berkeley Haas (7) UCLA Anderson (8) [...]

web 3.0

Posted by maz on August 22nd, 2007

My prediction would be that Web 3.0 would ultimately be seen as applications that are pieced together [and that share] a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small; the data is in the cloud; the applications can run on any device – PC or mobile phone; the applications are very fast and they’re very [...]

gap between ambition and execution

Posted by maz on August 20th, 2007

Too many companies are talking the talk, but not walking the walk of innovation. James Todhunter (Innovating To Win)


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