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: 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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SixSig Reference Feature: Six Sigma and the PC World
Posted by: meikah | 10 May 2010 | 11:49 pm
It has been a while since I featured here the statistics component of Six Sigma. And thanks to an article on Scientific Computing for featuring such information.
Six Sigma is, at heart, a business philosophy that seeks to deliver products and services with a minimum of defects. The cost savings and increase in business efficiencies have resulted in an alignment between the business needs and the scientific community, which is bridged by the statistical world. Advances in computing power and the ready availability of computer applications such as JMP and Minitab have put the needed computing tools in the hands of the average scientist and engineer.
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10 Key Technologies for Lean Process Improvement
Posted by: meikah | 8 March 2010 | 8:20 pm
Technology has indeed made life easier for all of us. With Web 2.0, sales and marketing have become a breeze. With the latest software, processes have become easier.
In the case of Six Sigma, for example, Apple has made Six Sigma applications available to iPhone users and on iTunes.
I stumbled upon Nari Kannan’s article on the ten key technologies for Lean Process Improvement. Again technology can play a big part in a lean process. Below is the list.
- The Internet
- Wireless connectivity
- Automated workflow systems
- Scanning and digitization
- Service-oriented architectures
- Document management systems
- Business process monitoring and measurement
- Business process management systems
- Business rules systems
- Online CRM systems/self-service FAQ system
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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.
Filed under: Innovation, Innovation Update, Silicon Valley, Six Sigma, Sustainable Business, Technology
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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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Six Sigma for Hardware Inventory at IBM
Posted by: meikah | 1 February 2010 | 8:46 pm
Technology is in a roll these days. A newly launched product today is obsolete the next day. So manufacturing companies of technology products often deal with inventory.
IBM serves a global market and thus you can imagine how they manage the supply chain and inventory. Due to fast depreciation in technology products, machines go to the inventory are not worth as much as they age. So, IBM conducted a Six Sigma project to reduce their hardware inventory.
The steps:
- determine the issue
- perform a root cause analysis
- find the solution
- establishing the results of the project
- learn from the whole process
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Innovation of the Week: The Internet: 40 Years of Breathtaking Innovation
Posted by: meikah | 5 November 2009 | 9:45 pm
For this week’s edition of innovation update, I’m featuring an entity (if you can call it that) that is revolutionizing technology. The Internet is connection people and making business transactions a lot easier and faster.
Forty years and counting, the Internet is indeed a breathtaking innovation.
eWeek.com reports:
What has become the Internet was started 40 years ago when computer scientists at UCLA made the first host-to-host connection to the Stanford Research Institute. From there, there’s been no looking back.
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Bharti Airtel Wins Six Sigma Award
Posted by: meikah | 29 October 2009 | 9:06 pm
Telecom Tiger reports:
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conferred upon industry awards to enterprises for setting new examples in various fields of Six Sigma implementation. The awards was judged on parameters such as customer impact, results achieved, sustainability of gains, employee involvement and commitment & linkage to strategic objectives of the business.
Bharti Airtel won the first prize for Six Sigma implemented in Transport network to enhance voice quality in its network.
Filed under: Bharti Airtel, Six Sigma, Six Sigma Organizations, Technology, Telecommunications
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Innovation of the Week: Smartphones as Learning Tools
Posted by: meikah | 3 September 2009 | 7:23 pm
The Strait Times shares:
THE boom in ‘smartphones’, led by Apple’s iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago – and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge.
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The ability to combine audio, video, text and data files with an Internet connection to a central website has helped create a much-improved language learning device, says entrepreneur Chris Lonsdale.
‘The technology allows you to have all the elements in one place and gives you new insights (into how you can learn languages),’ said Mr. Lonsdale, whose app is a six-month course for Chinese people to learn English.
