Innovation of the Week: Steve Jobs and iPad2
Posted by: meikah | 30 March 2011 | 7:51 pm
This week’s edition of innovation update features Steve Jobs and his latest gadget iPad 2. To be featuring Steve Jobs shouldn’t come as a surprise. The man has been churning in innovation one after another.
Business Insider reports that Steve Jobs and iPad 2 is a result of the power of innovation and passion.
Steve Jobs’ decision to return from medical leave long enough to unveil a barrage of new iPad 2 features wasn’t just savvy strategic marketing. It was a genuine display of entrepreneurial passion that, sadly, is all too scarce in corporate America’s upper echelons.
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Innovation of the Week: A Touchscreen iPod Shuffle Could Be a Cool Innovation
Posted by: meikah | 19 August 2010 | 9:46 pm
This week’s edition of innovation update features the story about a new generation iPod shuffle.
PCWorld reports:
Is Apple granting touch treatment to the lowliest of iPods, the iPod Shuffle? Maybe, if the rumors are to be believed; and, unlikely as it may seem, a touchscreen iPod Shuffle is actually a good idea.
Rumors of a possible 1.7-inch iPod Shuffle with a touchscreen comes from iLounge, which published a bunch of unsubstantiated details on upcoming Apple devices. My colleague, Ian Paul, already wrote at length about the likelihood of these rumors. But I wanted to take a moment to just want to focus on the iPod, because let’s be honest, with all hoopla over iPads and iPhones, the music player’s just not getting any love.
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Innovation of the Week: 3 Critical Innovation Lessons from Apple
Posted by: meikah | 27 May 2010 | 8:09 pm
This week’s edition of innovation update features again Apple.
Writing for Bloomberg.com, Scott Anthony share the three critical innovation lessons from Apple:
- Don’t just focus on building beautiful products. Build beautiful business models, new ways to create, deliver, and capture value. The iPod and iPhone would not have had nearly as much impact if they hadn’t been matched with iTunes and the AppExchange respectively.
- Think in terms of platforms and pipelines. Competitors that chase Apple’s latest release find themselves behind when six months later Apple introduces its latest and greatest offering.
- Take a portfolio approach. While Apple has been on a phenomenal run, not everything it has introduced has been a home run. For example, Apple TV hasn’t had the “revolutionary” impact that Jobs predicted upon its launch in 2007.
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Innovation of the Week: iPad is pure innovation
Posted by: meikah | 14 May 2010 | 12:32 am
This week’s edition of innovation update features the newest Apple gadget: the iPad.Â
Chicago Sun-Times features:
No company can generate as much hype around a product launch as Apple. But that’s perfectly OK because no company is also nearly as successful at producing a new product that can justify almost any level of excitement that precedes it.
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Innovation of the Week: The Apple iPAD
Posted by: meikah | 12 February 2010 | 12:12 am
This week’s edition of innovation update features Apple and its new gadget, the iPAD. Some open Internet advocates say that the Apple iPAD will choke innovation.
guardian.co.uk features:
Apple’s new iPad tablet computer could hamper innovation and cause long-term damage if it becomes a hit, according to experts.
Just as Steve Jobs tries to wow the world with the “magical” new device – unveiled on Wednesday at a media-saturated launch event in San Francisco – leading industry figures have told the Guardian that the machine marks a fundamental shift in the way the computer industry works.
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Six Sigma iPhone Application
Posted by: meikah | 4 October 2009 | 7:30 pm
A Six Sigma handy guide? Why not? Yes, Six Sigma comes to your iPhone.
In a press release last September 22, J.P.E. Consulting, LLC announced the release of their new SIX SIGMA iPhone application. The application was officially released Friday, September 18, 2009 and is available for purchase on the iTunes App Store in 23 countries.
According to the press release:
The SIX SIGMA iPhone application is designed to be a quick reference guide to the Six Sigma program methodology and tools. Additionally, the application gives a brief overview of the history of Six Sigma and the various roles of a typical Six Sigma program; while also incorporating various applicable Lean tools.
To know more about it, click HERE.
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Innovation of the Week: Apple’s Innovation Philosophy
Posted by: meikah | 13 August 2009 | 9:34 pm
BNET shares:
Apple makes it look easy. From the sleek design of its personal computers to the clever intuitiveness of its software to the ubiquity of the iPod to the genius of the iPhone, Apple consistently redefines each market it enters by creating brilliant gadgets that put the competition to shame. What’s the secret? Apple has built its management system so that it’s optimized to create distinctive products. That’s good news for would-be emulators, because it means Apple’s method for innovation can be understood as a specific set of management practices and organizational structures that — in theory, at least — anyone can use. This Crash Course outlines the techniques Apple uses to make the magic happen.
