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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 our Innovation During a Downturn podcast a few weeks...
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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. They also announced an effort to coordinate...
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The latest recession has gotten a profound impact on many supply chains and forced rethinking strategies . In a quest to reducing costs, many have diminished safety buffers, established lean thinking, and redesigned their flows. In that process they have made themselves more vulnerable to variance, while...
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At the Gartner Symposium, last week, HP's CEO Mark Hurd was quoted about the lack of security in the Cloud . This is only one of the voices heard about cloud computing security. So, should we stop thinking about linking our partners in the cloud to gain visibility in our Supply Chain? Maybe, maybe...
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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 MP3 file here. Click here to play this audio clip
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As President Obama announces a cloud computing initiative for the US , it is interesting to note that in their definition of Cloud Computing , the federal government includes an interesting deployment model, called community cloud. In their definition the cloud infrastructure is shared by several organizations...
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There are an increasing number of cloud based Supply Chain services, offered as SaaS, appearing on the market. But that is not the subject of this blog entry. Actually the question is way simpler. Are you aware of all the players participating in providing you the latest SaaS service you have bought...
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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 limitations and enable sharing multiple resources...
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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 categories of the various posts. Unfortunately,...
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As part of HP's latest press release on its partnership with GS1 Canada, HP is announcing the HP cloud computing ecosystem for manufacturing industries. This is a real exciting development. Let me explain why. In many entries of this blog, I have been talking about the need for companies to increase...
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Two weeks ago I was asked to run a workshop on collaboration at an event in China. Based on some of the ideas I shared in an earlier blog , I developed the content of the workshop. What daunted on me, listening to people in the audience, is that both the users and the providers keep talking about tools...
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Earlier in the year, I was asked to organize a summit for some of our key customers. The objective was to share with them some key thought leadership and start a dialogue around a number of topics including sustainability, cloud computing and innovation. As preparation progressed, so did the enthusiastic...
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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 both entertaining and thought provoking. One the things...
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A couple posts ago, I discussed the role of IT in manufacturing outsourcing . I'd like to come back to this topic, and discuss more in details the need for a cross-enterprise backbone allowing the companies members of the ecosystem to share information in an easy and transparent manner. Obviously...
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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. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan , including a subtitle...