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Less Uncertainty in Quantum Computing

March 27, 2014 • Innovation, News • • Comments (0)

A recent article in The Economist explained why skepticism about the utility of quantum computing is justified, one of many wait-and-see voices about this exotic and arcane technology.  There are certain classes of tasks that may be performed much more quickly – even thousands of times faster –  than with classical processors, yet general computing...

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Develop the Leaders, Kicking and Screaming

February 15, 2014 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

A HBR blog post entitled “Develop the Leaders You’ve Been Overlooking”, by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, argues that in every organization there are de facto leaders, the valued and respected contributors with deep knowledge and experience, who...

Not One Big Brother But Brothers All Around

February 5, 2014 • Innovation, News • • Comments (0)

Joaquin Phoenix’s girlfriend in “Her” wouldn’t have been a program worth a fig if she didn’t have some ability to gauge her user’s emotions – so why does does it seem so alarming when Apple seeks to patent a system...

Early Tablet User

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January 24, 2014 • Innovation, News • • Comments (0)

TechCrunch sounds a little surprised to discover that tablets are taking over the world.  Funny, because we’ve all heard the growth projections: Gartner, as an example, says that sales of all devices are going to grow by 7.6% this year – and...

Trust, But Encrypt

January 17, 2014 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

It will come as no surprise that businesses outside of the US are now leery about storing their data inside American borders, as was shown in this survey reported by CIO magazine.   Some non-Americans see the Snowden scandal as an opportunity (The Toronto...

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Avoiding the Startup Letdown

January 9, 2014 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

I read a lot about startups with the Next Big Thing in the works.  Frequently I click through to see this wonderful new product and find there’s nothing there.  Ready for prime time?  Heck, the product would be an embarrassment amongst Saturday morning...

More Than Roads and Bridges

January 8, 2014 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

Obama’s observation to the entrepreneur that “You didn’t build that” is becoming increasingly accurate.  The “Open Data 500” is a list of companies that are using public data as an integral component of a business model or product.  There...

VCs Blunt the Cutting Edge

November 12, 2013 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

Innovation depends on VCs who fund those cutting edge startups when no other investor will, right?  That’s what I thought too; but Steve Duplessie writing in CIO suggests otherwise.  His point, in a nutshell, is that ever since the IPO market dried up and...

Envisioning the Future of Smart Glasses

November 6, 2013 • Innovation, News • • Comments (0)

Someday I’m going to write a book about why market research is as useful as star signs and casting the i ching.  Techmeme turned up this survey in which it’s implied that Google Glass is headed for the shelf with the Palm Pre simply because consumers...

Moving Securely To the Cloud

November 4, 2013 • Innovation, News • • Comments (0)

Many organizations still hesitate to leap into the cloud.  This usually stems firstly from cost considerations, which are different for everyone.  Caveat emptor, ’nuff said.  Then it’s concerns over security and seamlessness (see this...

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Replacing Professionals With a Computer

October 27, 2013 • Innovation, News • • Comments (0)

Ah, my old nemesis!  Nick Carr, the same one who caused a furor by insisting that “IT Doesn’t Matter”, meaning IT is a commodity and of no strategic value to a business, now believes that IT is taking over so much of what we do that...

Charging Towards The Future

October 23, 2013 • Innovation, News • • Comments (0)

I don’t know about your city, but if my town gets any more electric vehicles there will be a noticeable drop in street noise.  The traffic cops drive electric tricycles, municipal workers zip around in Priuses, the taxis are being replaced by new hybrids,...

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