Hello. I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope that this coming year meets or exceeds your plans and aspirations. I'm sure all of you have heard...
Hi, Want to throw out this topic for discussion. When developing software, there are several roles that impact the user interface. These include GUI...
Hi, It seems necessity is certainly the mother of invention. In this case novelist Margaret Atwood, known as a bit reclusive, has created a device to remotely...
Hello Vasmi (and everyone) Please do not post job openings on this group, particularly ones that have little relevance too this group. There are many locations...
Dylan, Thanks for the article. WRT the first myth listed in the article "1. Creativity Comes From Creative Types" I think one has to identify what it means to...
iPod Shuffle Dissected, by Hadley Stern | Jan 17, 05 Daniel Kushner explains the inner workings of Apple's new iPod Shuffle. Daniel is a post-industrial...
... I was at Macworld, the stampede from Moscone center to the nearby Apple store was like retirees to the breakfast buffet. I'm still trying to get the...
I think the article was trying to say exactly what you elaborated on. The quotes used around "creative types" I think refers to traditionally creative roles...
Hi, Dylan Schiemann, a member of this group, forwarded the following to me. I thought it fit in the [newly created] off-topic category. :-) Announcing Apple...
Hi, This article makes a couple of interesting points on innovation, particularly in the case that a company should "enter into competition with itself by...
Hi, I have serious doubts that digital photography can replace the traditional SLR camera. There is no way that a digital camera can get the quality of...
Hi, This article had many salient points regarding Innovation / Risk / Failure. One of my favorite quotes was "The Managerial hierarchy was created almost to...
Kishore- I don't want to turn this into the quasi-reilgious debates that infest photography forums, but the position you stake out, while widely held a few...
Edward, Thanks for the posting. Looks like you were right in the thick of things there at Polaroid. Tell me, knowing what you know now, do you think that you...
Hi, In hindsight the problem was systemic and challenging to solve. The whole business was built around massive production and distribution systems for high...
Edward, Thanks again. Given that the CEO had a sizable compensation package and a bonus before the company went bankrupt, I'm wondering what incentive he had...
... So, it's hardly insightful to point out that this is an archetypical example of a company that got creamed by a disruptive innovation. But examples like...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:48:04 -0800 (PST), Ethan Henry ... Although management of public companies often take the proceeds of their "cash cow" businesses and...
Reg, I think we have to separate the goals of investors with the objectives of management. In general, investors want to maximize their returns. With public...
Seems to lead to the conclusion that private limited companies are more likely to innovate than public limited companies. Kishore Reginald Braithwaite-Lee...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:35:06 -0800 (PST), Saeed Khan ... I recognize that many managers have goals which are not in the best interests of shareholders. As you...
... more likely to innovate than public limited companies. ... Kishore, I was thinking about your comment and it may be true, though I don't know how one could...
Are you looking for the right business opportunity? Are you looking for something new and interesting? There is a Hungarian invention to purification the most...
The basic idea was as follows: You can get a product that needs not to be sold because everybody use it. You simply produce this product in a sufficiently big...
Hi, I'd like to welcome all the new members to the group over the past few days. There has been quite an influx over the last 6 or 7 days. Please feel free to...
I have got a new idea for an invention. It is a cyclical gravity greenhouse liquid capillary action energy generator. The idea is that the device uses the same...
Hi, If anyone, who "owns" the innovation process in a company? i.e. how should a company be staffed or structured to become an innovator or to maintain an...