In the high-tech industry where I work, innovation is highly valued. Where would an Apple or a Sony or a Google be without innovating totally new products or ways to do things that no one has thought of before (or thought out nearly as well)? In my business, the enemy of innovation is frequently conventional [...]
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BUSINESS: Global Impact of Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Posted in Business on Jan 3rd, 2008
Many people have assumed that the subprime mortgage crisis only effects homeowners and the lending institutions who are hurting because of home foreclosures. But the subprime mortgage crisis is actually having a global impact on a much larger fanancial system then just lending institutions, or just the ones in trouble for making too many subprime [...]
BUSINESS: A Process for Innovation (from Daniel)
Posted in Business on Nov 17th, 2007
I recently wrote this article to the Chief Technical Officer of the company where I work. It takes the ideas I learned in studying the book of Daniel (see here), and applies it to how we can innovate as a high-tech firm. I call it a “Process for Innovation”. The CTO replied simply, “very insightful [...]
BUSINESS: Vision can push us to change
Posted in Business on Nov 16th, 2007
Recently, everyone where I work was given a copy of Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D. If you read the reviews (some 1400 of them) on Amazon.com you’ll find that opinions are quite varied. A third love it, a third hate it and the rest are somewhere in-between. The [...]
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