The Futuring and Innovation Center team just the other day was discussing the idea of using a cellphone as a pedometer. Well, lookie here: The latest Nike+ Air Zoom Moire runners can connect to an iPod Nano through the soon-to-be released Nike+ Sportkit. The wireless Sportkit receiver plugs into the iPod which can then display graphical information on time, distance, ...
Read More »Be "present" at Net2 Conference
Next week is the NetSquared Conference at Cisco Systems down near San Jose. A few of us will be there to participate and even present (Randy Moss) at the conference. Click on the orange Net2 badge over on the right column to learn more about NetSquared and the conference. But anybody can participate. Here’s how: 1. Participate in the NetSquared ...
Read More »Innovation process
From the Corante Innovation Hub: Practical Tasks of Innovation Monitor the Environment– be watchful for slight changes in trends. Anticipate Opportunity – when changes do begin to occur, do they affect your products/services? If so, how? Identify Opportunity – determine what your main objective should be to address these changes/opportunity. Generate Alternatives – now that you have identified your challenge, ...
Read More »Falling off my chair laughing
I commented yesteday about NSA’s use of social networking analysis (SNA). Then today I get this in the mail: From NSA wire-tapping allegations to MySpace, Social Networks Analysis (SNA) is suddenly everywhere – and we are getting asked a lot of questions about the underlying concepts and technology. With that in mind we have launched a blog that covers what ...
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