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Multi-disciplinary, cross-industry thinking breeds better problem solvers. Interesting points made in this article. As TRIZ says - someone, somewhere, has already solved your problem. It's repackaging the previous solutions in a new application area, that creates innovation.

BTW - the TRIZ course we put together with Dr. Ellen Domb, and offer through IAIUniversity.com, is a great jump-start into TRIZ. If you have anything to do with engineering of any kind, you are missing out on massive opportunities in reducing time to market, driving down costs, eliminating complexity, and leap-frogging your competition, if you aren't aware of and actively using TRIZ.

"Amazon.com (AMZN) Vice-President James Hamilton's schooling in computer data centers started under the hood of a Lamborghini Countach.

Fixing luxury Italian autos in British Columbia while in his 20s taught Hamilton, 51, valuable lessons in problem solving, forcing him to come up with creative ways to repair cars because replacement parts were hard to find. "It's amazing how many things you can pick up in one industry and apply to another," Hamilton, who has also been a distinguished engineer at Amazon since 2009, says in an interview."

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From Justin R. Levy - Amazon Remembers What You Want to Buy...

Like I need even more in my wish list (>500 items - it's my placeholder bucket for renting, borrowing, buying just about everything except transportation and housing). This is the sort of functionality I've wanted for years. See something you want to remember to look into more deeply (and check for Amazon discounts) while walking around town, while on the road, etc., and pop the info (as painlessly as possible) into your mobile device, et voila!

We're finally getting somewhere useful with the mobile world!

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"BTW - those of you using the Kindle - according to the latest research on Content Delivery, which I should be publishing next week, you are indeed part of a select few, in a corporate setting anyway. The research found that the use of multimedia content, and the re-purposing of content in creative new ways within the firewall lags far behind the Internet. Stay tuned ..."

Still can't believe that Carl's blog was published on Kindle before me. Ironically, I submitted the paperwork to be compensated for the publishing of my blog, almost a year ago. Carl did not, and he beat me to the punch. Still took almost a year for them to add him, however.

Anyone can fire up a cloud-based infinite amount of storage, elastic computing power, etc., via Amazon, but it takes a year (or more) to pull a blog onto the Kindle store? Wow, process, process, process - I smell a need for some automation.

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As companies move to full-out SaaS offerings for their online applications, or use virtualization platforms (like Amazon S3 et al) to build their properties/apps, interesting questions come up, like this one - found at LinkedIn.

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