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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Wikinomics, this linking of people and ideas, is what is really driving innovation in the long run. Howard Rheingold’s vision of ‘the guy in the basement‘ who is the one responsible for innovation is becoming reality. I have attached a…
Here we go again, the mashable social networking news website which originates from the UK is now setting shop on the Continent with clear intentions to take over the world of printed media. This and other initiatives like Italian born Web…
What are the most obvious of innovation traps? Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the former chief editor of the Harvard Business Review, a distinguished Professor at Harvard and an innovation pundit. Innovation: Moss Kanter describes innovation classic traps Now she contributes…
Corporate blogs the Cisco way. OK, I’m ready to admit to it, I am a Cisco fan and I really think it’s a great company. I was lucky enough to be their counterpart at Orange Business Services for three years…
IBM ‘s Dutch Arm has almost created a best practice in the field of Corporate Blogging. Close but no cigar, however. The world of large Multinational Corporations is hardly thought of as a place for entrepreneurship and risk. And indeed, there…
