links for 2006-11-30

Phil McKinney’s presentation on Innovation during Innovation Trip » BrainReactions: Innovation generation (a.k.a. Brain Reactions brainstorming on-demand) (tags: innovation phil-mckinney)

Innovation is everywhere

Kind of provocative post today. The news comes from an italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera. If you can read italian you will find the original article here. If you live in a big city you will be used to see people begging for money in buses and metro. Different story yesterday night. Milano, late night. […]

links for 2006-11-29

Google’s ambitions going mobile | Newsmakers | CNET News.com (tags: internet mobile google) Michael Gartenberg – Some thoughts on what a podcasting centric device should look like (tags: podcast) AAS Feature: Television, the Internet and the Mobile Phone (tags: television internet mobile-tv tv)

The definition of Smartphone

During my daily scan for news I have found this interesting piece from Yahoo News. There are two statements I would like to comment on: Unlike regular cellphones, smartphones have a PC-like operating system and download and run computer programs. Most include advanced data features such as e-mail, instant messaging and word processing. Some, such […]

links for 2006-11-28

Six Sigma Still Pays Off At Motorola Very good piece on which the author demonstrate that using Six Sigma may not interfere with creativity and innovation. (tags: innovation six-sigma motorola) Wireless ‘Push’ E-Mail Offered To Not-So-Smart Cell Phones – News by InformationWeek (tags: email push-email seven-networks) ChangeThis :: The Bootstrapper’s Bible Quite innovative… Start a […]

The art of possibility

I had the chance to listen to a Benjamin Zander speech some years ago during a worldwide company event. I also had the opportunity to spend some time with Ben after his speech. I was really impressed by Ben’s enthusiasm, energy and passion, and I could perceive that his attitude is an attitude towards life, […]

links for 2006-11-27

After-market vs native phone applications Some other takes on native versus java enabled mobile phone applications. (tags: phone, mobile email, java, j2me) Time to Rename the Cell Phone? They’re not just for making calls, and they don’t have a lot to do with cells. Maybe it’s time to name the ubiquitous gadget something else (tags: […]

Sources of unconventional innovation

Usually in big companies innovation tends to be driven by a well designed process. The design of the process may fail to include some unconventional source of innovation. We may call the first unconventional source of innovation Innovation Contamination. Forget about your core business and start looking far away from your day to day activity. […]

links for 2006-11-24

Innovation Radar Good take on what innovation is. (tags: innovation) What Makes a Company Innovative? (tags: innovation) Serendipity strikes again Innovation by accident? This is avery goog example. Qtopia Greenphone — Trolltech If you want to put your hands on a mobile phone platform you may want one of these. (tags: mobile phone platform llinux […]

The quest for Web innovation

This article from Brian Reindel raises some interesting points. Is what we call web innovation today an isolate though of a very limited number of internet users. Here is what Brian says: AJAX, blogging, Web 2.0, photo sharing, browsers, social networking, or even social bookmarking ….. there is still a polarization among the early adopters, […]

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