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: Google’s Fluid, Iterative Innovation Process
Posted by: meikah | 12 March 2010 | 4:50 am
This week’s edition of innovation update features Google. Who isn’t amazed by what Google is doing every day? So, now it would be interesting to know the innovation process of Google.
Helen Walters, Next Innovation Tools and Trends, BusinessWeek writes:
Yesterday, Google announced a new “stable†release of its open source browser for Windows, adding some 1,500 “Extensions†(which add functions to the browser toolbar) and “Bookmark Syncâ€, which synchronizes bookmarks across multiple computers.
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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.
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Innovation of the Week: Innovation Can Leverage Change
Posted by: meikah | 25 February 2010 | 8:11 pm
This week’s edition of innovation update features Bill Gates and how he views innovation. Gates says that innovation can leverage change.
ABC News/Money features:
The needs of the poor are greater than the money available to help them, but that’s not enough to discourage Bill Gates in his work as co-chair of the world’s largest charitable foundation.
In his second annual letter, issued Monday, Gates says investment in science and technology can leverage those dollars and make more of a difference than charity and government aid alone.
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Innovation of the Week: Russia Plans to Promote Technology Innovations
Posted by: meikah | 18 February 2010 | 8:10 pm
This week’s edition of innovation update features Russia and how its government is pushing for technology innovation to get out of the boom-and-bust cycles of the economy.
New York Times Business reports:
The government will order ministries and state companies to use more of their procurement budgets to buy products that qualify as “innovative†and that are made in Russia.
State procurement orders total about $133 billion, he said, and 15 percent now go to Russian technology companies.
Government orders will “support everybody who wants to work in this sphere, everybody who wants to work for the future,†Mr. Kudrin said.
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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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Innovation of the Week: Innovation Tip, Step Back to Step Forward
Posted by: meikah | 22 January 2010 | 12:10 am
This week’s edition of innovation update proves my theory on innovation: that it is a creative process, too. Why do I say that? Because like embarking on a creative process, like writing, you need to step back, listen to silence, and contemplate in order to come up with a piece of writing worth reading.
I haven’t done this in a long while, and I wish I’d have time to do it one of these days. Meanwhile, here’s the innovation tip that will do all of us good.
It might sound simple, but taking a step back can help executives look at a problem in an entirely new light.
When my colleague Dick Boland talks to an audience about how to manage by designing, there is often a moment where he pauses, usually with a hand raised thoughtfully to his chin.
