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He helped develop the Saturn V rocket and NASA’s Apollo program. Now, NASA is asking for your help to develop a system to catalog all of Wernher von Braun’s weekly notes. Von Braun was the first director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Jacob Keaton is a program analyst for NASA’s Space Operations. He is working directly on this request for information.
These are my notes from Dr Scott McLeod’s NECC 2009 presentation, “Effective Leadership in an Era of Disruptive Innovation.” This content is similar to Scott’s 20 min presentation for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference, “Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations,”
Disruptive innovations are game changers
to understand Christiansen’s thinking here, we need to understand two different lines
the “more than needed” line
- plain ole phone line was fine for most… Continue reading
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) announced today that it will showcase a variety of innovative technologies designed to enhance the performance and sensory properties of hair care, skin care and sun care products as part of its “Something Beautiful is Growing” theme at this week’s In-Cosmetics trade show in Munich, Germany.
The “Something Beautiful is Growing” theme signals there is much more to come while giving customers a first look at… Continue reading
Advances in UV laser technology keep LASELEC at the forefront of innovation for wire- and cable-marking solutions, as the company will be able to demonstrate at the MRO AMERICAS trade show and the Paris Le Bourget Air Show in the coming weeks. LASELEC is the only company that designs and manufactures its complete laser marking systems ? including the laser itself ? with a product range that is both
TMX Interactive (TMX), an independent technology, marketing and award-winning creative agency, is celebrating their 10th year in business with a “Thrive, not just survive” philosophy. The company, which has been a leader in interactive marketing for the past decade is leveraging past successes, while retooling to suit the volatile economic climate.
Founded in 1999 by Blair Lyon, Eric Smith and David McMillan, the TMX founders used their combined skills from experience… Continue reading
Defining Small Business Innovation — a research brief released today — once again drives home the point that small businesses must innovate to survive. I couldn’t agree more, but would place more emphasis on technology as the key to making innovation happen.
The research brief, prepared for Intuit’s Future of Small Business Series by Emergent Research did mention tech, of course, but concentrates on the social and operational
Here’s a thrifty marketing strategy tailor-made for these troubled times.
Rather than pay for all the accoutrements of a high-profile product roll-out — promotional media, special events, keynote speeches, etc. — just leak a few spy shots to obscure bloggers and let the Internet rumor mill do the heavy lifting.
Something like that — by design or accident — seems to have happened with the new Apple (AAPL) products expected… Continue reading
CREATING new jobs is a good way to get America’s economy moving again. That’s not the controversial part of President-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plans. As usual, the devil is in the details. And innovation advocates fear that if the devil runs amok
The company had 3,100 full-time workers at the end of June 2008, down 47 percent from a year earlier, Creative said in an annual report filed to Singapore’s stock exchange Dec. 31.
Creative joins Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Royal Philips Electronics in cutting jobs as demand for electronics falters amid the global recession.
Competition
“The markets that Creative targets are highly competitive,” the company said in the report. “Many of Creative’s current and… Continue reading
In a visionary blueprint for the use of technology and innovation, AN ACTION PLAN FOR AMERICA: Using Technology and Innovation to Address Our Nation’s Critical Challenges proposes that President-Elect Barack Obama take immediate action to connect the nation to broadband, which will unleash billions of dollars in economic development, create over a million jobs, enhance America’s global competitiveness, deliver superior health care and education, reduce energy consumption and environmental degradation… Continue reading
