Month: April 2007

Ubiquitous computing has been on the agenda for a while now. This concept was in fact created by the much regretted Mark Weiser from Xerox PARC in the 1970s (see a reprint of the founding article, The Computer for the 21st century). It was really visionary. The computer of the…

Seen today on Time’s website the expected yet sad announcement of Mr Vonnegut’s death at 84 today, April 24th, 2007. I know that – apparently at least – it hasn’t much to do with innovation, but in fact it does. Vonnegut was an amazing satirist who had captured the spirit of…

We knew it had been in the works for a while but here we go now, the French economic daily Les Echos, an FT’s subsidiary since 1989, is launching its electronic newspapers today. Earlier versions of such contraptions had already been launched at the heart of the 2000 bubble and…

Joe Lewis has an interesting story about social marketing as a reader rightfully pointed out (social marketing is indeed about marketing products or services which can be viewed as beneficial from a Society point of view). To sum it up in a few words: an iProspect (a search engine marketing…

Is this another sign of the times, the after-shock after 10 years of Dilbertish hard-talk against managers or just the result of a profound transformation of the employment landscape? It’s probably hard to tell exactly but last December, the FT came up with an interesting article about how managers were…

This blog is not just wearing its badge of honour. It has also been spotted by the Britishblogs digg-like list of rss links. At a time when most people think that the entente cordiale is a thing of the past, I am under the impression that this is a good…

On April 23rd, I delivered a course on the marketing of technological innovations to the students of the MIB Dauphine, thanks to the recommendation of Jean François David. Innovation course material for download This MBA is carried out in partnership with the University of San Francisco. The course material is…