Perhaps the ACS could take a page from IBM’s game-book. Earlier this month Big Blue initiated a program called “Innovation Days,” several days devoted to looking at how they could refresh innovation at IBM labs around the world. They had a familiar problem: how to encourage innovation while working on the usual short-term objectives. They took ideas by e-mail and ...
Read More »Innovation is like theater
Here’s some advice from Harvard Business School about managing when you don’t know exactly where you’re going. The fact is these days managers usually have only an approximate goal for many things. So the conventional wisdom that you should plan every step is not realistic. With innovation this is especially true. In certain kinds of work, even if you can ...
Read More »Where'd l put my keys? I'll ask my phone
Okay, so Kurzweil’s “singularity” is hard to swallow. But even without big breakthroughs in nanotech and AI, it seems to me current technology pushed to new levels is going to change things a lot. For example, here’s links to articles that have appeared quite recently that point toward the availability in the pretty-near future of a kind of total personal ...
Read More »Telemedicine for real
Boston.com / News / Nation / Keeping patients connected The VA is starting a test to monitor chronically ill patients with telemedicine. It’s no joke; they’ll have 25,000 plugged in. The VA program, which is being rolled out over the next few months, will offer telephone- and computer-based technology to patients, ranging from automated medication reminders and hand-held vital sign ...
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