Harvard Business Review junio 2011: dedicada a Innovación

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Una muestra:

An innovator: Fred Roses

La compañía se llama Fred&friends y se dedica al diseño no convencional (innovadorsísimo :-) de accesorios varios. Abajo una muestra del catálogo de sus últimos lanzamientos.

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communication Innovation

El artículo es de Pipeline aquí

Extracto:

"M2M as a technology has been utilized for many years.
It has even been used by various industries long before
the term “Machine-to-Machine” was created.
Today the concept as well as its maturity differs from
one country to another, and various industries are using
it for various reasons. For example smart metering,
which also uses M2M technology, is in different stages
of development in different countries.
eHealth is something that many vendors and providers
already have in their labs or even in their catalogs,
however it is still blocked by some regulations or
institutions and is not broadly used commercially.

But in some cases consumers are using M2M technology
in their everyday life and don’t even think about it (e.g.
when buying a ticket on a train or purchasing products
from a vending machine). Such machines are very often
equipped with dedicated M2M SIM cards and devices
which are part of a complex information exchange chain.
One very promising market – not yet affected by
regulators – is consumer electronics. According to a
research report from Berg Insight, The Global Wireless
M2M Market - 3rd Edition, AT&T will become the first
mobile operator to reach 10 million M2M subscribers
at the beginning of this year. Everything thanks to
customers in consumer electronics."

P&G innovation: Connect + Develop

Aquí el texto en la página de Procter & Gamble

Extracto:

"Swiffer Duster. Olay Regenerist. Pringles Stixx. Mr. Clean Eraser. The Pulsonic Toothbrush. What does such a diverse group of brands have in common? Market success, absolutely. But, also, each is a P&G product grown out of a partnership with someone outside the Company.

Seem odd? Perhaps at first. But a closer look shows an innovative strategy on how to approach innovation.

A strategy focused on delivering more superior products, faster. And with maximum chances for success and optimal use of key resources. We call it Connect+Develop. The objective is to discover key innovations outside the Company and bring them inside—to either advance, enhance or expand current projects and strategies.

It works by building the kinds of partnerships that enable good innovation to flourish."

Innovation 'a la China'

La entrada es de The Economist

¿Puede la China aspirar a la innovación (en todo terreno, principalmente en sus productos y servicios) mientras al tiempo sigue bajo un régimen dictatorial? ¿Es la democracia 'a la occidental' el verdadero motor del éxito innovador?

Extracto introductorio:

"CHINA’S continued economic progress depends on mastering the art of mould-breaking innovation. President Hu Jintao intones that the “capacity for independent innovation” is the “core of our national development strategy”. Sceptics agree with his premise, but scoff that innovation and autocracy do not mix. So long as China remains a dictatorship, it will be trapped in a world of mass production and routine assembly, they say. One scholar, Cong Cao, argues that the country faces a future of “premature senility”.

China has invested heavily in homegrown innovation. The government has not only persuaded Microsoft and Google to establish research centres in China. It has also set up science parks across the country, in the hope of creating a Chinese Silicon Valley. Beijing’s Zhongguancun Science Park alone is home to thousands of high-tech enterprises. Chinese universities are joining the charge. Peking University, for example, has established “innovation and entrepreneurship” programmes."

¿Innovación a medio camino?

La entrada es del blog de Nicholas Carr. Y trata de un tema que apasiona al suscrito: los formatos de libro en papel y electrónico, y el cómo impactan la lectura y el aprendizaje

Extracto clave:

"Because we've come to take printed books for granted, we tend to overlook their enormous flexibility as reading instruments. It's easy to flip through the pages of a physical book, forward and backward. It's easy to jump quickly between widely separated sections, marking your place with your thumb or a stray bit of paper or even a hair plucked from your head (yes, I believe I've done that). You can write anywhere and in any form on any page of a book, using pen or pencil or highlighter or the tip of a burnt match (ditto). You can dog-ear pages or fold them in half or rip them out. You can keep many different books open simultaneously, dipping in and out of them to gather related information. And when you just want to read, the tranquility of a printed book provides a natural shield against distraction. Despite being low-tech - or maybe because of it - printed books and other paper documents support all sorts of reading techniques, they make it easy to shift seamlessly between those techniques, and they're amenable to personal idiosyncrasies and eccentricities."

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More innovation from Google: Google Wallet

Jobs-To-Be-Done

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PREZI

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E-commerce (more) innovation

Aquí la entrada original desde Knowledge@Wharton

Extracto:

"A decade after pets.com and a string of other early Internet specialty retailers collapsed, a new wave of start-ups -- enabled by the power of cloud computing, advanced delivery systems and deep social relationships with customers -- is shaping e-commerce.

From diapers and eyeglasses to pool tables and, yes, pet products, entrepreneurs are developing specialty businesses to compete alongside one-stop shopping giants like Amazon.com and Walmart.com."

"There is a new generation -- Internet retail 2.0," says Wharton marketing professor David Bell, noting that after the 2000 dot-com bust, activity in online specialty retailers dried up as financing became difficult, or impossible, to get and industry executives struggled to evaluate failed business models. Now, engineers have dramatically reduced obstacles to creating web-based businesses, and entrepreneurs have learned more about how to capture online consumers.