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The CIO Role and Driving Innovation: Gap or Opportunity?
Ask yourself: is the CIO a driver of Innovation in your enterprise? The gap: are CIOs missing the Social Media boat? The MIT Sloan Management Review recently published results from a survey of business...
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New Insight Article: Intrapreneurship – How to Do It and Live to Tell the Tale
I’ve spent a long career as a change agent in a large corporation, even if at first I didn’t call the role by that name; it just so happened that I was always trying to execute my “day job” in ways...
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Intrapreneurship and the Hewlett Packard Medal of Defiance
click image to enlarge I was reading the InnovaScapes Institute blog and noticed in the “About Me” sidebar the statement that Chuck House, its author, holds HP’s only Medal of Defiance, awarded by...
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Better Place is gone, leaving our world a sadder place
Two years ago I made a hopeful off-topic post here upon sighting a parking lot with charging posts for Better Place’s novel electric vehicle system. I titled in “The future is here!”. Today I made...
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BrainYno: the Ultimate Solution to Information Overload?
The holy grail of Information Overload solutions Interruptions are a major component of Information Overload (indeed, they cause more harm than the rightly reviled second component, email overload, as...
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Startup Innovation: an Automatic Presentation Skills Coach!
Startup innovation knows no bounds Living here in Startup Nation, and having worked with and been around startups for much of my life, you’d think I’d grow used to these little powerhouses of...
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On the Volatility of Startups
To a first approximation, all startups fail. This should never be a deterrent to starting one up. – I wish I could attribute this to some famous name, but hey, it’s all mine… and very true. As...
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Konrad Zuse, Alan Turing, and the World’s First Computer Startup
Having a hobby you’re passionate about is important. Having a job you’re passionate about is important. And if you’re lucky, there will be a congruence that allows work and hobby to cross-fertilize...
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New Insight Article: How You Can Instill a Culture of Innovation in Your Company
Everybody, you’d think, likes Innovation. What’s not to like? And yet, as I’ve observed repeatedly, many companies pay lip service to innovation, but not that many walk the talk. Even hi-tech...
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Information Overload and Innovation: a Vicious Circle
An unusual lecture subject Yesterday I gave a somewhat unusual invited lecture at the Innovation as Culture conference in Tel Aviv. The lecture was about Information Overload, something I speak about...
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How to Hold Magnificent Conferences in the Time of Corona
In May I went to a large international conference, EcoMotion 2020, devoted to the exciting innovative field of autonomous vehicles and other novel means of transport. There were 3,000 attendees from 54...
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Progress and Pig-Headedness in COVID-19 vaccination
Well, at long last we have a COVID-19 vaccine – many of them, of which two are FDA-approved – and a vaccination drive is underway, just in time for the new year. I just got my first shot! Edward Jenner...
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Babbage and Turing: Two Paths to Inventing the Computer
A younger me at the Babbage difference engine built by the Science Museum Success has many fathers, and so it is hardly surprising that there are numerous claimants to the title “inventor of the...
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