Sholom Sandalow discusses an interesting article about curse of knowledge affecting creative thinking. I have experienced how the it affects our communication. But it can be considered quite severe if it even curbs our ability to think out of the box and take innovative approaches. [Continue]
Bernard Lunn has a detailed article on the state of innovation in India. He notices that there has been progress in a lot of areas like reliable low cost telecommunications, but the killer app is still missing. There are many Indian entrepreneurs, but not many of them are in India. [Continue]
Stacey Schneider studied work of this year’s winners of Nobel Prize for Economics and came to a conclusion that open source is software’s solution to create perfect efficient market (via Matt Assay). I know that this does not sound very convincing to the everyday PC user. Why are efficient markets necessary? [Continue]
Cost of failure is one of the biggest factors considered while deciding on any approach for any venture - a project, a product or the company itself. This cost determines how much can we experiment, deviate from norms and dare to think differently. If the cost is high, we try to tread on the safe path. [Continue]
Dr. R. Keith Sawyer thinks that open source is not innovative. [Continue]
Larry Dignan tries to explain difference between invention and innovation. Larry brings up lot of good points, but the difference is not explicitly mentioned, which leaves me in a half-hungry state. A while back I had sent an email amongst my friends to put down my thoughts about it, but never really got much feedback. [Continue]
Luke Wroblewski pens down thoughts about the role of design in corporate innovation from his talk with Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO. The outcome is design thinking - a unique process that designers have for solving problems - which can be used to everything from driving strategy to creating new business models. The key element of that is being more focused on users than the business. [Continue]
There are various attempts at applying the open source model for problem solving. There are also many angles of looking at it - reverse salients, innovation. The open source concept has been applied even beyond the domain of software development. [Continue]
Nominations in product innovations by Indian companies are up. NASSCOM showcased these nominations out of 160 participants for the Nasscom Innovation Awards 2006. It is imperative for the software industry in India to start focusing on products. [Continue]
Nicholas Carr discusses reverse salients and points towards his article on the weakest link and innovation. It is an article that took a couple of readings to fully assimilate it. Nick says One of the best ways to think about how such systems progress is through the idea of “reverse salients.” The great technology historian Thomas P. [Continue]