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Bob Frankston - Opportunity for Innovation
Perhaps the most difficult concept is the need to invert our usual “procurement” model of problem solving – we can’t dictate the solutions but instead need to create (generative) opportunity and then accept the solutions that arise.

We can only dictate solutions for the short term but we’re rewarded for short term thinking. This makes it doubly difficult to “sell” the idea that we need to create opportunity. Not only is the reward deferred but we can’t say what it will be.
opportunity  innovation 
july 2009 by vielmetti
Start-ups stifled by noncompetes - The Boston Globe
First, he looked at Michigan. During the decades of that state’s greatest economic growth, from 1915 to 1985, noncompete agreements were illegal. In 1985, the law changed - and Marx found that inventors were suddenly less likely to move from one company to another, and specialized inventors were much less likely to move. (I’d observe here that the last 25 years in Michigan have not been a good era to emulate.)
michigan  noncompete  invention  innovation 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Unbundling for innovation: An Essay by Phil Agre, UCLA » Experience-Is-King
It follows that the design process of the future will require a more sophisticated understanding of the user community. This starts with anthropological fieldwork, and it includes participatory design processes, mock-ups and prototypes, and systematic mapping-out of the whole universe of potential applications niches. A good place to start, as I’ve mentioned in the context of wearable devices, is with relationships. Think of the unbundled-and-disembedded cell phone functionalities not as devices for making phone calls, but as infrastructures for maintaining relationships. What is the informational architecture of a user’s ongoing relationship with a family member, a school, a doctor, a video game company, and so on, and what could those architectures become? What issues, privacy for example, are at stake in the design and ongoing renegotiation of that architecture?
agre  phil  innovation  communications  networking  mobile 
december 2008 by vielmetti
grant opportunities [collaborative spaces]: 17 Teams Invited to Submit Full Proposals Archives
The GROCS 2009 Call for Proposals attracted fifty-six Proposal Abstracts from students representing 47 academic departments. Twenty-nine abstracts received at least one "high priority" mark from reviewers, indicating a generally excellent field of entries. Seventeen teams have been selected to continue the proposal process.
grocs  michigan  software  annarbor  students  innovation 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Social melting pots foster technological innovation - tech - 14 October 2008 - New Scientist Tech
Now Samuel Arbesman and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, have developed computer models of social networking which show that the sheer size of larger cities generates disproportionately more connections between people with very different personalities and backgrounds. Such bonds tend to foster innovation as they link people with complementary skills, they say.
politics  networks  innovation  socialnetworks  cities  urban  arbesman  samuel 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Invented here
I would rather paraphrase what Spolsky and Atwood said: Figure out what you’re good at. Check that there is a market for what you’re good at, that people want to pay you for doing it. Then make sure you do it. From your perspective, everything else should be non-core. So get others to do the rest, focus very hard on what you’re good at.
productivity  innovation  management  opensource  outsourcing  oh-noes-market-woes 
october 2008 by vielmetti
…My heart’s in Accra » Innovating from constraint
So I offered a talk about some very different types of innovation - African innovations including the zeer pot, William Kamkwamba’s windmill, biomass charcoal, and endless examples of innovation using mobile phones. My argument was that innovation often comes from unusual and difficult circumstances - constraints - and that it’s often wiser to look for innovation in places where people are trying to solve difficult, concrete problems rather than where smart people are sketching ideas on blank canvases.
innovation  africa  constraints  zuckerman  ethan  ideas 
october 2008 by vielmetti
If it Works in Africa, It Will Work Anywhere | White African
Here’s one more compelling thought. The challenges brought about by bad governance, poverty, low bandwidth (all the negative things you associate with Africa) also provide an incredible opportunity. The developers who are coming up with solutions in the continent, the ones who are writing software or hacking hardware, are creating for some of the harshest environments and use-cases in the world. If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere.
africa  technology  mobile  innovation  communication  telecom 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog: Medical records and Facebook
It would be nice if an electronic record was designed with the singular focus being the end-user experience. They should make physician's lives immeasurably easier, and significantly decrease the time spent charting and tracking patients. There are very few record systems that meet even this minimal standard. An EMR like Facebook? We can only wish.
innovation  blogs  facebook  medicine  emr 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Open Source and Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Radar
In that context, it's important to recognize that even proprietary cloud computing provides one of the key benefits of open source: low barriers to entry. Derek Gottfried's Processing Large Data with Hadoop and EC2 talk was especially sweet in demonstrating this point. Derek described how, armed with a credit card, a sliver of permission, and his hacking skills, he was able to put the NY Times historical archive online for free access, ramping up from 4 instances to nearly 1,000. Open source is about enabling innovation and re-use, and at their best, Web 2.0 and cloud computing can be bent to serve those same aims.
gottfried  derek  nytimes  hadoop  ec2  cloudcomputing  hadoop-is-on-fire-we-dont-need-no-water  opensource  innovation 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Musings: People versus Process
The root of the misunderstanding is that managers put too much emphasis on trying to create highly optimized efficient processes and the organization then becomes a victim of inflexible mechanization, thereby stifling entrepreneurship.
engineering  enterprise  management  innovation  patterns  people  process  been-there-done-that 
july 2008 by vielmetti
the 9x email problem
Email is freeform, multimedia (especially with attachments), WYSIWYG, easy to learn and use, platform independent, social, and friendly to mouse-clickers and keyboard-shortcutters alike. It's the ultimate example of what Dion Hinchcliffe calls a 'comfor
email  smtp  rfc822  mime  adoption  innovation  the-past-didnt-go-anywhere  hbs  worst-thing-that-will-possibly-work 
june 2008 by vielmetti
The Opinionated Marketers: Twitter: social networking or broadcast medium
on the Nashua Telegram's use of Twitter to broadcast headlines in real time. Waiting for a newspaper to rename itself after Twitter.
newspaper  nashua  nh  innovation  twitter  telegram  telegraph 
march 2008 by vielmetti
N2Y3 Mashup Challenge Project Gallery | NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org
Vote for your favorite Mashups until March 21 at 5:00pm Pacific Time. Find projects of interest and give them feedback.
innovation  activism  mashups  netsquared  n2y3 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Research | pjlamber@umich.edu
In particular, my current research focuses on social processes governed by positive feedbacks such as product competition under increasing returns, innovation diffusion and social learning. I am especially interested in implications of positive feedback
feedback  competition  innovation 
february 2008 by vielmetti
» Innovation, cross-appropriation, social practice, and structural holes -- Coevolving Innovations -- Blog Archive -- … in Business Organizations and Information Technologies
An idea is a multiple sequence of creative acts. This is important because it means that creativity isn’t just the domain of brilliant people, it’s also the domain of average people who travel to other groups.
innovation  networking  social  ideas  creativity  travel  burt  ron 
february 2008 by vielmetti
Network Weaving: A Perplexing Economy
valdis notes cleveland as a disconnected economy - no doubt SE Michigan looks the same way
cleveland  innovation  economics  socnet 
december 2007 by vielmetti
» Blogs We Dig: Michigan Innovators » Dig Michigan!
Two professors at the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University, Diana Wong and Bud Gibson, started the site with hopes that it would become a "highly visible repository of stories that showcase the modern, innovate spirit lurking in the Michigan
blog  michigan  purevisibility  bud-gibson  video  podcast  innovation 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Maximizing Honda's Insight with MIMA | Autopia from Wired.com
Over a moderately hilly 15.2-mile test run, a MIMA-equipped Insight returned a stunning 118.6 mpg — considerably better than the standard car's (still pretty impressive) 61-mpg highway fuel-economy figure.
honda  insight  honda-insight  mima  hybrid  innovation  auto  autopia 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Luminus Devices - LED lighting innovation
Luminus Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures high performance solid state light sources for a variety of illumination applications.
display  entrepreneurs  innovation  led  lighting  optics  reference  shopping  technology  tv  work  matt-mazzuchi 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Seth's Blog: How to create a good enough website
web design became a sacred art, one done only by the blessed few. In addition, it became expensive, because design changes got in the same queue as programming changes.
webdesign  webdev  innovation  online  redesign  seth  godin  seth  strategy  satisficing  copy-exactly  copy-approximately 
october 2007 by vielmetti
The love-in | Economist.com
“commoditisation often occurs even faster in services than in physical products”, because innovations are easier to copy, patents can provide less protection, up-front costs are lower and product cycles are shorter.
innovation  copying  open  services  economist  steal-this-idea 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Old city revels in a new spirit of innovation - Los Angeles Times
Whatever the answer, New Orleans was not defined by its spirit of innovation in the decades preceding Hurricane Katrina. But the flood that changed everything two years ago has changed that too: Today, by accident and by necessity, this city is awash in i
neworleans  innovation  necessity  ideas  thinknola  katrina  hurricanekatrina 
september 2007 by vielmetti
I Really Need You to Read This Article, Okay? - washingtonpost.com
"There is some tendency, if not an outright mandate, to search for eyeballs," says Bob Steele, who teaches journalistic ethics at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla. "Part of it is that the technology now gives barometri
bob-steele  poynter-institute  eyeballs  innovation  analytics  journalism  metrics  newspapers  strategy  web 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Innovation and Design: 8½ Best & Next Practices
The event is free to Metromode's readers and will be held on Friday, September 21st from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m at the Wendell W. Anderson, Jr. Auditorium in the Walter B. Ford II Building at the College for Creative Studies.
metromode  detroit  innovation  design  ccs  michigan  a2b3  via:vaguery  please-post-to-facebook 
september 2007 by vielmetti
YouTube - Innovation at Google
Presentation by Google CIO Douglas Merrill on Innovation at Google
innovation  google  teh-goog  douglas-merrill 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Business School - Networks: Innovation & Effectiveness | University of Greenwich
organisational performance can be enhanced by judicious combinations of strong and weak networks. In general, weak ties are a source of novelty and creativity but strong ties are needed to turn creativity into marketable innovation.
networks  organizations  innovation  effectiveness  workshop  events  creativity 
july 2007 by vielmetti
Competing on analytics : the new science of winning / Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris.
The authors show how organizations as diverse as the Boston Red Sox, Netflix, Amazon.com, Cemex, Capital One, Harrah's Entertainment, Procter & Gamble, and Best Buy are using new analytical tools to trump rivals. Through analytics, these enterprises ident
business  analytics  supplychain  innovation  finance  competition  moneyball 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Photo Tourism
Photo tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D. Our approach takes as input large collections of images from either personal photo collections or Internet photo sharing sites (a), and automatically computes each photo's view
3d  architecture  browser  experimental  flickr  geotagging  photosynth  visualization  photo  photos  photography  washington  innovation 
june 2007 by vielmetti
How to Be Silicon Valley
I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds. They're the limiting reagents in the reaction that produces startups, because they're the only ones present when startups get started. Everyone else will move.
academia  business  checklist  creativity  essay  entrepreneur  geography  howto  innovation  startup  trends  university  urban  urbanism 
june 2007 by vielmetti
How to Save the World | How To Make Unconferences Work
The pat answer is to 'break up into small groups', using some organizing principle to do so like Open Space (where people stand and propose discussion topics, are assigned a place and time-slot, and then attendees sign up for the ones that appeal to t
unconference  collaboration  innovation  howto 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Creativity in the workplace | Veerle's blog
Coworking

Another example of an inspiring environment could be to share it with other people.
coworking  creativity  innovation  office  productivity 
june 2007 by vielmetti
A VC: Delicious For Money
aha, so this is what it does. could very easily use.
business  finance  innovation  investment  money  personalfinance  quicken  social  software  web  wesabe 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Hospitals hook up patients with Net perks
Hospitals hook up patients with Net perks / By Sofia Kosmetatos / Detroit News / Jonathan Terry, 13, found an unexpected way to cure boredom during his stay at the Detroit Medical Center's Children's Hospital of Michigan.
michigan  hospital  innovation  internet  access  dmc 
may 2007 by vielmetti
me + alex quit google. (dodgeball forever!!!!) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
dodgeball founders quit google, announced on flickr and twittered repeatedly.
dodgeball  flickr  google  mobile  mososo  twitter  teh-goog  itp  innovation  sms  socialmedia 
april 2007 by vielmetti
InfoTangle :: Information Design for the New Web :: April :: 2007
the web has changed - "web 2.0' and all that - this is a good description of the common design themes in this era.
design  graphics  ia  ux  innovation  interface  internet  library  usability  visualization  web2.0  webdesign  webdev  via:mstephens7 
april 2007 by vielmetti
Seth's Blog: Neat Amazon feature
Seth Godin: "You can see which books cite a book you like. Try doing that at the local library..." note to self, is this data exposed through an API?
amazon  opac  catalog  innovation  libraries  superpatron 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Creative Leadership: Be Your Team's Chief Innovation Officer
Creativity drives the innovations that fuel your company's growth, extend its reach, and revitalize its processes. Substantial research demonstrates the connection between the characteristics of a work environment and the quality of the creative problem s
creativity  innovation  harvard-business-review  $ 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Brendan's Roadmap Updates: The Open Web and Its Adversaries
on the difference between corporate developed software with fixed behavior, and openly developed code with its unpredictable charm
openweb  webdev  innovation 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Librarians Matter
One of his theses last night was that “your whole life can change by noticing something and acting on it“.
blogs  innovation  libraries  superpatron  future  futurism 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Robert Rauschenberg - Exhibit - Art - New York Times
It involved soaking newspaper or magazine clippings in solvent, laying them face down on drawing paper and then hatching back and forth across them with a dry pen nib.
art  innovation  via:toddmundt 
march 2007 by vielmetti
"creativity is an import export game" - Google Search
Ron Burt - (creativity is a function of the situation, not the individual; everyone is eligible)
creativity  quote  quotable  creative  innovation 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Coinstar : Our Products : FREE Coin Counting when you turn coins into a Gift Card or eCertificate
Now there's an exciting new service called Coin to Card™ that gives you free coin counting when you turn your coins into a Gift Card or eCertificate at participating Coinstar® Centers.
amazon  certificate  change  counting  finance  innovation  marketing  money  cvs 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Library Garden: User 2.0: Innovative Library Sites (Part 2 - Public Libraries)
here is Part 2 of the preliminary list of Innovative Library Sites – this time for public libraries.
innovation  library  superpatron  annarbor  aadl 
february 2007 by vielmetti
Supernova 2007 - Connected Innovators, Co-hosted by TechCrunch
Participation is by application only. Connected Innovators will be chosen based on their potential to create both immediate buzz and long-term impact. Please be advised that there is a participation fee for selected companies.
supernova  techcrunch  innovation  payola 
february 2007 by vielmetti
David Seah : The Printable CEO™ III: Emergent Task Timing
thanks for the link John. i've tried to use this without the philosophy behind it, but it does make more sense as an after the fact timer than a plan out the day one. what have I been doing?
via:jhritz  mindful  gtd  hacks  creativity  howto  innovation  kaizen  lifehacks  productivity  timer  timetracker 
february 2007 by vielmetti
The Ecstasy of Influence (Harpers.org)
i want a morning to read this again, or maybe it should be read out loud (hm, record it for assistive media? that would be really useful)
collaboration  awesome  *****  collage  essay  blogthis  superpatron  creativity  plagiarism  via:jazzmasterson  remix  reuse  text  writing  innovation  mashup  harpers  creative  magazine  publishing  wow  cooperation  copyfight 
february 2007 by vielmetti
About Jason and kottke.org (kottke.org)
first in a succession of "about this blog" pages I am collecting under the about.blog tag; there's a little mini autobiographical structure to this I'm looking at with an eye to improving my own self-descriptive pages.
blog  innovation  kottke  about.blog 
november 2006 by vielmetti
Wired 14.11: Attack of the Bots
when i fight the bots the bots always win
bots  innovation  security  infosec 
october 2006 by vielmetti
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
several times in here there are sharp digs at detroit as a place to go if you want your startup to fail.
blog  checklist  design  development  entrepreneurs  essays  funding  innovation  startup  success  venturecapital 
october 2006 by vielmetti
Visitor Networks-The Internet Protocol Journal - Cisco Systems
dory leifer on the solution space for providing guest access to the net, wired or wireless.
networks  security  wifi  innovation  community_informatics  architecture  mobile  privacy  infosec  cisco 
october 2006 by vielmetti
Innovate - June/July 2006 Volume 2, Issue 5
in this issue: digital divide, social software, wiki, plagiarism
academic  education  innovation  journals  online 
june 2006 by vielmetti
Innovations: From Base to Top, A Must-Read | NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise
Innovations is a must-read for anyone interested in creative, local solutions to the world’s problems. Its content bridges the gap between ‘whatever works’ BOP practice and rigorous academic analysis. Not only that - all the articles in the current
via:kevindoylejones  ict4d  technology  poverty  innovation  africa  development 
april 2006 by vielmetti
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