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Compilación de referencias sobre temas de innovación, nuevas ideas, nuevas aplicaciones
Updated on Nov 25, 14
Created on Oct 14, 09
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Yes, "innovation" is a buzzword. Yet governments and corporations alike are working on legitimate ways of measuring the success of innovative ideas, products, services, processes, customer experiences, and business models. Here, we look at the latest experiments and policies regarding innovation metrics. Innovation... moreYes, "innovation" is a buzzword. Yet governments and corporations alike are working on legitimate ways of measuring the success of innovative ideas, products, services, processes, customer experiences, and business models. Here, we look at the latest experiments and policies regarding innovation metrics.
"Celebrating 40 years of the net"
El reto más grande de los organismos reguladores ha sido crear políticas que promuevan el progreso económico y el despliegue de infraestructura, al paso que mantengan un enfoque orientado al mercado del desarrollo del Internet y los servicios IP. Los reguladores en particular, y en general los gobiernos, han reconocido la importancia de llevar los beneficios de la red de Internet al mayor número de habitantes; sin embargo, los esfuerzos en ese sentido pueden quedar cortos si no se considera la creación de marcos regulatorios adecuados que faciliten, a aquellos que ya cuentan con el acceso, a explotar el Internet como el medio más abierto a la libre expresión, a la innovación y al emprendimiento que ha conocido la humanidad.
"It stands to reason that budding businesspeople would be attracted to Weblogs, those do-it-yourself publishing sites that embody the very spirit of entrepreneurism. What do blogs add to the small-business dialogue that a whole host of magazines, cable channels and Web sites don't? In addition to transmitting news, industry gossip and occasional rants, the best small business blogs offer interactivity, allowing readers to chime into the dialogue with their own bright ideas. There are, unfortunately, too many small business blogs peddling the same prosaic resources you can get from a simple google search. The better ones at least offer fresh insight on the mundane and first-hand accounts from the entrepreneurial front lines. -- Lea Goldman "
"Historically, approximately 50% of HBS graduates become entrepreneurs by the time they are 15 years out of school. Half of this number have started two or more businesses. Most graduates wait until they have a high potential idea they are truly passionate about. Often, such ideas come through in-depth experience in a market and exposure to unsatisfied customer needs – experience that may be tough to get within the bounds of a full-time educational experience."
"The 2010 Gartner Hype Cycle Special Report evaluates the maturity of 1,800 technologies and trends in 75 areas. New this year are business use of social technology, sustainability and green IT, emerging energy technologies, enterprise architecture, Pattern-Based Strategy, and performance management."
"Some executives remain overwhelmed by the well-documented "data deluge" - 60% still say they "have more information than we can effectively use." But research now shows that leaders of the smartest organizations have moved past "overwhelmed" and are already capitalizing on increased information richness and analytics to gain measurable competitive advantage."
"The World Economic Forum released The Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009, the first ever study of its kind for Mexico. The findings of the Report are being presented and discussed at the Mexico Competitiveness Workshop on June 22nd 2009 in Mexico City, jointly organized by the World Economic Forum and the Secretariat of the Economy of Mexico."
Nowadays, goes the theory, innovation is supposed to be done constantly, by everyone in the company, improving everything the company is about — and new Web-based tools are here to help it happen. Is the theory right? Or do the experiences of companies reveal something different?
Ideally, you'll find some time over the next few weeks to curl up with a good story. Or hey, at least that's what I look forward to on vacation. If you are looking for some books on entrepreneurship to read, or even to gift, here are some recommended books from 2010. There were a number of great business books published this year, many of which we reviewed here as part of ReadWriteWeb's "Weekend Reading" series. But here are a few of the standouts, startup books we've chosen specifically because they are such great stories
Last month, in a small room on the fifth floor of a high-rise building in San Mateo, Calif., three men sat around a table, thinking. The place was wallpapered with Post-it notes, in a riot of colors, plus column after column of index cards pinned to foam boards. Some of the cards had phrases like “space maximizers” or “stuff trackers” written on them. Many had little three-dimensional ink drawings and titles, like “color-coded Tupperware horizontal stacker.” It looked as if these guys had been locked in and told they couldn’t leave until they dreamed up 1,000 of the wackiest home-storage items they could imagine.
At a McKinsey alumni webcast on creative strategy last week, the presenters mentioned a book due to be soon published by INSEAD professor Hal Gregersen, Jeffrey Dyer of Brigham Young University and Clayton Christensen of Harvard. The authors have spent six years interviewing thousands of innovative businesspeople and concluded there are five key traits innovators share (the Innovator's DNA as they call it).
"We should be looking beyond superficial, static graphics and examining the social brand platform, instead."
Companies have been trained to think about data all wrong, say Ali Riaz and Sid Probstein, CEO and CTO of Attivio. "Some topics require complete accuracy, but in many cases analytics don't have to be based on super-precise data," they say. "Some reports don’t have to be perfect. They need to capture the essence of behavior, not the totality of it, but you do need to get them fast – faster than your competitors."
Estos son algunos de los libros sobre innovación abierta que he identificado como interesantes:
This project is about BBC data and how it can be visualised in a creative and informative way. In blurring the boundary between art and information DataArt aims to reach both experts and non-experts alike to grow interest in a media area of increasing public importance. Before proceeding we recommend you read the About section, which gives an overview of who the project is for, its aims and more detail on what we’ll be offering.
Visualizing.org is a community of creative people working to make sense of complex issues through data and design… and it’s a shared space and free resource to help you achieve this goal.
Oliver Burkeman went to Texas to the South by Southwest festival of film, music and technology, in search of the next big idea. After three days he found it: the boundary between 'real life' and 'online' has disappeared
In December of last year, Google released its new Google Earth Engine, an application created specifically with scientific research in mind. This new product provides an unprecedented 25 years of satellite images with the goal of enabling more precise climate modeling, based on change studies and mapping trends of the Earth’s environment with a principle focus on identifying areas of deforestation.
Human suffering is certainly our main concern in the immediate aftermath of Japan's 3/11 tragedy. But even as we focus on immediate human needs, we cannot avoid recognizing — and coping with — the long economic shadow cast by this disaster.
92 items | 2 visits
Compilación de referencias sobre temas de innovación, nuevas ideas, nuevas aplicaciones
Updated on Nov 25, 14
Created on Oct 14, 09
Category: Business & Finance
URL: