Today, the topic is about redefining innovation – Hint: You’re not starting from Ground Zero. Welcome to IAM Talking, a periodic podcast interview series, with your host, Dan Keldsen, Chief Innovation Officer at Information Architected, Inc. (IAI). Today IAM Talking with Ken Tencer, the CEO of Spyder Works Inc. and co-author of the book “The […]
Editor’s Note: This post is a featured guest post by one of our IAI University Partners, Dr. Ellen Domb from the PQR Group. Stop the Innovation Wars is the attention-getting title of a Harvard Business Review article published last year, attempting to generate controversy in the business world. The article is written by Vijay Govindarajan […]
A Quick Cloud Prod What exactly is the mental/cultural/political barrier for adoption of cloud computing and SaaS-based solutions? It should no longer be technical barriers – nor cost – nor reliability – so what’s the disconnect? Think about it… Most companies do not own and manage (without third party suppliers/partners – the “analog” to cloud […]
It was recently recommended to me that I pick up a copy of “Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years” published in 2008 by Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui. Fascinating book so far – as usual, bought the book wirelessly while I was having […]
Recently, Robin Bew, Chief Economist in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research division of The Economist magazine, posted the results of an EIU survey of large businesses. With such a complex system as the world economy, I always have my doubts as to how useful research like this is, but an interesting statistic called […]
6 Years Ago… When I started covering the software solution providing side of the Innovation Management coin 6 years ago – it was a lonely world as an Innovation Analyst and Consultant. The software tools were so new, and with so little competition, that there was essentially no market there. And with no market = […]
A quick post as we head into the Holiday Season… whether for work or for play, perhaps it’s time to move onto the tablet revolution for your content consumption. Take for example… Taking Digital Content to an Extreme Once you’ve begun to make the journey into digital content, or electronic content, do you start to […]
Editor’s Note: This post is a featured guest post by one of our IAI University Partners, Ellen Domb from the PQR Group. TRIZ and QFD (Quality Function Deployment) usually focus on understanding a customer, and either improving a product or service to make it better for that customer, or keeping it the same for the […]
Editor’s Note: This post is a featured guest post by one of our IAI University Partners, Dr. Ellen Domb (PhD) from the PQR Group, and originally co-written by Ellen Domb with Katie Barry, editor of RealInnovation.com, and Michael S. Slocum, PhD, Principal of The Inventioneering Company. What Is TRIZ? Projects of all kinds frequently reach […]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert): On July 28th, 2010, Adobe announced it’s intention to acquire Switzerland-based Day Software for approximately $240 Million USD. (see press release from Adobe) The Past, Present and Future of Adobe With the acquisition of Day Software (highly scalable, standards and open source-oriented [not as deployment/sales model, but as underpinnings]), […]
