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Three ways to thrive

Jim Miller and Mateen Greenway (a couple of other fellows here at HP) just posted an article on hp.com about Three Ways to Thrive in an Uncertain Economic Upturn . These are a different perspective of some of the same issues Jean and I talked about in...

Published 11-07-2009 12:35 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption

Toronto City Innovation Conference

Earlier this week I was the keynote speaker for the Toronto Innovation Showcase . One of the things the mayor announced was the Toronto Open project. This activity opens up much of the cities information for the residents of Toronto to mashup into applications...

Published 11-05-2009 11:34 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Consumerization , Edge computing , Innovation , Trends, Applications, Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, Organizational relationships, User Interface

Interview with HP Fellows: A prime time for innovation

A few times on this blog I've talked about the use of the downturn as a jumping off point for innovation and advantage . The other day Jean Lehmann and I were interviewed by about why now is a prime time for innovation. I've put a link to the...

Published 09-21-2009 3:52 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption

A move to tap into the computing environment around us?

A while back I mentioned how today we live in an " and" world where people want it all. This is true in the mobile space as well. We'd like to have small, portable and yet capable systems. In order to do this we need to overcome mobile device...

Published 09-08-2009 8:06 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Agility, Mobility , User Interface

Charting how the Internet views you

I stumbled across this interesting tool that searches through the Internet and pulls together an illustration of how you are viewed. The Personas project from the MIT Media Lab uses your name and then tries to derive a graph based on predefined context...

Published 09-02-2009 3:45 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Social networking, Analytics

60 symbols from physics – and how collaboration can change your thinking

Every so often you come across a web site that causes you to think about things you've forgotten about or in ways you've never thought about before. Here is one of those. This site explains 60 symbols from physics using video in a way that is...

Published 07-05-2009 7:51 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration

Not invented here, and very welcome

If I remember well, I picked up the phrase "not invented here, and very welcome" from The Economist discussion about the new age of innovation, many months ago. "The new age of innovation" is also the title of a recent book* by C.K...

Published 06-26-2009 1:42 PM by ROLF KUBLI

Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Innovation

90 the new 60 - and what can technology do about it?

I've heard this phrase a few times over the past months as a way of putting how long people are going to be living in context. Now that I am 50, 60 doesn't seem so far away so it's a good thing we're moving the signposts and shifting our...

Published 06-21-2009 12:54 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Consumerization , Transportation , Trends, Aging, Analytics

Interesting articles on eds.com about innovation

On www.eds.com , there is an article titled " Accelerating Success Through Innovation ." It discusses EDS’ position on innovation and spotlight how our government segment is delivering innovation. One of the items mentioned in the story...

Published 06-15-2009 9:58 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Government , attention engineering, HP labs

HP's Personal Video Mailbox - Gabble

Back in March, I looked at a beta project HP had underway called Gabble . Since then it has improved tremendously. This site allows for individuals to create Twitter -ish small (2 minutes to so) video entries that others can subscribe to. You can define...

Published 06-09-2009 1:49 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Emerging technologies

The EDS Next Big Thing blog is on the move, again...

It has finally happened. We’ve moved the blog from its old location inside EDS’ infrastructure over to a “ normal ” place for blogs within HP. HP has a long tradition of blogging internally and publically, so it will be nice to...

Published 06-05-2009 5:38 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Blogging

FRC competition in Dallas

Last weekend, we had the initial FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) in Dallas. Recently, I was a judge for the FIRST Lego League competition in Dallas (first picture). A pair of 7 th grade competitors described how they spent most of the previous summer...

Published 03-16-2009 8:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Vision, Collaboration, Emerging technologies , Vision

Moving to the 3D web and telepresence

Intel is inviting the public to come to ScienceSim (a virtual world ) and discover its possibilities for building collaborative visualization tools... "Within ScienceSim's world you'll find some starting buildings, templates for forums and...

Published 02-05-2009 6:15 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Collaboration, Communications, Emerging Technologies, Green IT, IT Services, Transportation, Vision, Collaboration, Business value generation , Communications , Emerging technologies , Green IT, Transportation , Vision , Applications, IT Services, 3D

Predictions for 2009

For the last 4 years I've put out a blog entry of my predictions for the coming year - like most others do. Since this is a year where the world will be coming out of a financial crisis, I'll try to be a bit more conservative than in the past...

Published 12-29-2008 9:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Green IT, infrastructure, IT Services, SaaS, SOA, Vision, Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Green IT, Infrastructure , SaaS, SOA , Vision , Applications, IT Services

Is the next wave of computing a product of the financial downturn?

The Fellows have been discussing the perspective that, based on previous technology shift performance, 2008 is the year that is the tipping point to the next wave of computing. In a discussion with the Enterprise Irregulars about organizations and the...

Published 11-22-2008 3:17 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, IT Services, Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Applications, IT Services

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