Innovation of the Week: Nissan Plays Up Innovation Angle
Posted by: meikah | 2 September 2010 | 10:55 pm
This week’s edition of innovation update features Nissan. With its new products, the company is playing up an innovation angle.
New York Times online reports:
Eight years after urging consumers to “Shift” their buying behavior when it comes to cars, trucks and minivans, Nissan North America is changing brand themes.
In a campaign that is scheduled to get under way on Saturday, Nissan North America, part of the Nissan Motor Company of Japan, will proclaim its mission is to provide “Innovation for all.”
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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: U.S. DOE’s Energy Innovation Hub Will Develop Fuel From Sunlight
Posted by: meikah | 29 July 2010 | 7:44 pm
This week’s edition of innovation update features the story about generating fuel from sunlight.
Spearheading this project is the Energy Innovation Hub of the U.S. Department of Energy. Fast Company features:
Want to generate innovation? Build a hub to make it happen. The U.S. Department of Energy is embarking on an ambitious plan to speed up energy innovation with a $122 million cash injection for an Energy Innovation Hub in California. Dubbed the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, the research center will do exactly as its name suggests–develop a solar energy fuel conversion system through artificial photosynthesis and bring it to commercialization.
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Innovation of the Week: Innovation on Demand in Russia
Posted by: meikah | 24 June 2010 | 7:15 pm
This week’s edition of innovation update features Russia, which aims to build its own Silicon Valley.
The Wall Street Journal Europe reports:
Russia has feted its scientists for generations, but the fall of the Soviet Union forced the country to come up with a new way to harness their talents.
Earlier this year, President Dmitry Medvedev appointed the businessman Viktor Vekselberg to help set up an international center for technological innovation, which is aimed at attracting the world’s best engineers, programmers and venture capitalists to Russia. So far, the project has won support from Nokia, Cisco and a large U.S. private equity fund.
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Innovation of the Week: Hotbeds of Innovation
Posted by: meikah | 4 June 2010 | 12:39 am
This week’s edition of innovation update features a talk by Anil Gupta, founder of Honey Bee Network.
Gupta shares where to get inspiration for innovation, even in places where you least expect it.
Listen to his talk here.
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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: Improving Innovation with PPM (A Webinar)
Posted by: meikah | 2 April 2010 | 12:31 am
Tuesday, April 6, 11:30am – 12:30pm (EDT)
Featuring Roy Wildeman of Forrester Research
Learn how Project Portfolio Management (PPM) improves product development results, enabling better decisions from idea management and investment selection through resourcing, execution, and post-launch review. Six Sigma and innovation executives will want to participate to learn:
- Insights from Forrester’s latest research
- How PPM helps R&D improve its impact
- The current state of PPM technology options
This webinar is brought to you by PowerSteering Software, the leading provider of enterprise PPM software.
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Innovation of the Week: Testing Testing, The New Innovation Game
Posted by: meikah | 19 March 2010 | 12:25 am
This week’s edition of innovation update features the new innovation game in business which is testing.
Business innovation, once the province of teams in white lab coats doing research and development, is moving into the front lines. Increasingly it derives from continual tiny experiments in such areas as business processes and customer relationships rather than a single, company-transforming idea.
Internet-based companies, which can alter their “storefront” at will — “What will happen if we put the shopping cart on the left side of the screen?” — are certainly the most adept at such granular testing. Big players like Google and Amazon.com can sometimes get a statistically significant amount of data to make a decision in a matter of hours.
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Innovation of the Week: Cleantech, Silicon Valley’s Next Great Wave of Innovation
Posted by: meikah | 4 March 2010 | 7:32 pm
This week’s edition of innovation update features Cleantech, Silicon Valley‘s next great wave of innovation. This time Silicon Valley is working on clean and green technologies.
MercuryNews.com reports:
Silicon Valley earned its name and first great fortune as the cradle of the computer age. Then it built a launching pad for the Internet age. Now the valley has assumed a leading role in the global competition to develop renewable energy and other clean, green technologies.
Cleantech is poised to be the valley’s third great wave of innovation — not just the next big thing, but perhaps the biggest thing ever. Confronting the peril of greenhouse gases and climate change happens to be a multi-trillion-dollar business opportunity.
“Energy is the biggest opportunity Silicon Valley has ever seen,” declared T.J. Rodgers, the founder of Cypress Semiconductor and chairman of SunPower, a leading maker of photovoltaic panels to produce solar energy.
