Archive for the ‘innovation’ Category

The Irony of Continuous Innovation

12, Jan 2010

Laying around in the previous long-form blog from back in 2007 there’s a few articles I wrote on innovation.  Hindsight and time are powerful teachers, and some things that felt urgent at the time -in the great scheme of things- become irrelevant with time:  the difference between importance and urgence. There’s however a few topics [...]

How to make an E-Reader product.

10, Jan 2010

And by a product I mean, not e-reader technology, but something human beings can use (and are willing to buy).

1)  Touchscreen  ( back and forth keys are a definitive no-no). You have to be able to flip pages with your fingers. Still with me?  Remember, touchscreen.  Throw your Kindle thing away.
2) The display must cover [...]

More on Microsoft’s Myopia

10, Jan 2010

Paul McDougall of InformationWeek sums it up more concisely than I did.
What he sees in Microsoft is the symptoms of the very well known phenomenon called Marketing Myopia.
McDougall writes:
Microsoft’s problem is that it’s failed to innovate at a time when the only acceptable answer to the question of what business you are in is…innovation. Redmond [...]


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