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Why Software Won’t Eat The World

Innovation Excellence

In 2011, technology pioneer Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. So taking a software centric view, while it has served Silicon Valley well in the past, may be its Achilles heel in the future. In other words, that software would eat the world. The Silicon Valley Myth. As the economist W.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

March 2011: I submitted the final manuscript to Penguin for Best Practices are Stupid. April 2011: Almost immediately after submitting the manuscript, I conceived the concept of a “Challenge Toolkit.” May 2011: I created a spreadsheet cataloging a number of lenses. Over time I added to it, collecting dozens of them.

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The Global StartUp Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

The 2017 report by Startup Genome recently came out (April 5, 2017) You can find it here “ Global StartUp Ecosystem Report 2017 ” which provides a 150-page review of the global state of startups. Silicon Valley happened due to a steady stream of investments since the end of the 2nd world war.

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Micromanaging higher ed won’t help students

Christensen Institute

Recognizing the importance of OPMs to public and private, non-profit colleges, however, the Department of Education under the Obama administration issued A “Dear Colleague Letter” in 2011 to clarify that the OPM business model is legal so long as they offer a bundle of services, not just recruiting. Fast forward to the GAO report.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above.

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Innovation by numbers: Lessons to learn from the CIA and Netflix

Innovation 360 Group

Back in 2011, we were wondering how to develop the first hypothesis in the large and very complex assignments we were undertaking. A number of scientists had developed a piece of open software, Cytoscape. We decided to look at other trades and industries to see how they approached complex tasks.