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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. It covered a wide range of topics related to innovation: strategy, organization structures, measures, technology, and more. April 2011: Almost immediately after submitting the manuscript, I conceived the concept of a “Challenge Toolkit.”

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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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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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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. If I asked you to name some innovations of the 20th Century, which ones would you think of? Obviously, all names listed are ‘innovators’ of their time. The innovations in the 21st Century are different.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

If I asked you to name some innovations of the 20th Century, which ones would you think of? So, I typed ‘Innovations of the 20th Century’ , and the results I got are 1) Nuclear Power 2) Personal Computer 3) Airplane 4) Automobile 5) Antibiotics 6) Television, etc. Obviously, all names listed are ‘innovators’ of their time.

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Warm and Fuzzy at the Front End of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Perhaps I have fallen into the very trap I have campaigned about in the past, in recognizing and resolving the disappointing results we achieve from all the work we put into the front end of innovation. The “warm and fuzzy” front end of innovation can make us all a little grumpy. Let me explain.