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After creating a program that makes Linux as easy to use as Windows, Miguel de Icaza is trying to make it just as simple to produce open-source versions of thousands of new Windows applications. So why isn’t Microsoft worried?

Content: Article | Author: Erick Schonfeld | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Whether you like it or not, your identity is no longer something fixed, and no longer a simplistic formula consisting of your name, date of birth, and tax ID number. Today, your identity changes as your behavior does. It arises from not only simple, static data, but also from information about where you go online, what you buy, whom you call, where you call from, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Hadar Dafny | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

GM and Deere show how adding communication technology to existing products can allow for innovative services.

Content: Article | Author: Chunka Mui | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Trends / Analysis

To help CFOs get a better sense of which next-gen technologies are true landscape-shakers, CFO.com spoke to a slew of experts. The list of gurus included IT consultants, futurists, and tech-savvy CFOs. The question asked: name the innovations that will have the biggest impact on business over the next five years.

What they said was intriguing. Tech spending may be dormant right now, but tech innovation … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Embedded sensors will enable greater device-to-device communication, fueling economic growth in location-based services and transforming business processes across all sectors.

Editor’s Note: This is one of the elements of the CBI’s Future Scan. Though only an overview, some useful insights and concerns are raised.

Content: Article | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Tom Peters galvanized a free-agent nation with his manifesto, “The Brand Called You.” But there is something missing from his vision: us.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Trends / Analysis

Fashion, it must be said, does not thrive just on the runways of Paris. It’s alive and well, for better or worse, in the boardrooms, executive suites and business think tanks of the world.

Content: Article | Authors: Bob Ferchat, Tony Carlson | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Trends / Analysis

CEOs offer every excuse but the right one: their own errors. Here are ten mistakes to avoid.

Content: Article | Authors: Jerry Useem, Ram Charan | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo — Five Half-truths of Business — as a wake-up call.

The five:
1. We’re only in it for ourselves
2. Corporations exist to maximize shareholder value
3. Companies need CEOs who are heroic leaders
4. Companies need to be lean … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Henry Mintzberg, Kunal Basu, Robert Simons | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Trends / Analysis

The average life span of a Fortune 500 company is less than half a century, yet there also are corporations around the world that have been in business for 200, 500, even 700 years. Arie de Geus, a retired Royal Dutch/Shell Group executive, maintains after studying both extremes that the most enduring treat their companies as “living work communities” rather than pure economic machines. The … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Arie De Geus | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Trends / Analysis

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W. Brian Arthur, Andy Grove, and Lawrence Lessig discuss a variety of topics at a Business 2.0 conference.

Content: Article | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: History, Trends / Analysis

Professor Jean-Claude Larreche of INSEAD heads an initiative that effectively quantifies the Competitive Fitness of Global Firms. He has published a report each year since 1998, providing an evaluation of the business capabilities of firms among the 500 largest in North America and Europe. Instead of relying on the short-term, financial information that is so easy to find on business corporations, his report delves deeper … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Jean-Claude Larréché | Sources: Corvaltec, Financial Times | Subjects: International, Trends / Analysis

Anyone who has looked at the crowded living room shelves of the average home and the jammed briefcases of the average road warrior knows that the long-awaited technological convergence is largely a myth today. Our homes are still crowded with radios, televisions, DVD players and computers (with built-in DVD players). Our briefcases still hold PDAs, mobile phones, laptops and lots of paper. Will technological advances … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jerry Wind, Robert Gunther, Vijay Mahajan | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Trends / Analysis

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ‘Is it good in itself?’ In the second, ‘Can it be easily put into practice?’

Content: Quotation | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis

Complexity theory is at the forefront of science and math. It is being used to map biological events and forecast earthquakes. Can it be useful in manufacturing? The answer is yes, but …

Content: Article | Author: David Berreby | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

If The Future of Ideas is bleak, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Author Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and keen observer of emerging technologies, makes a strong case that large corporations are staging an innovation-stifling power grab while we watch idly. The changes in copyright and other forms of intellectual property protection demanded by the media and software industries have the potential … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Lawrence Lessig | Subjects: Economics, Trends / Analysis

Despite difficulties, it is generally believed that within a decade, Smartcard technology will be all-pervasive. You can examine the future possibilities after reading this technical note. How will the banks, transaction clearing houses and their gateways to join hands and establish a system that does not compromise on security? And once they make even cash obsolete, where will the competition be?

Content: Article | Author: Soumitra Dutta | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

For at least thousands of years, humans have looked to nature for inspiration for technology. It’s hard not to look at birds and wish you could fly, too. This thought hasn’t escaped computer scientists (well, not the part about flying), and within the last few years there has been a surge of interest in looking to biology for help in answering some of the pressing … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Geoff Cohen | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subject: Trends / Analysis

The TNBT research report “The Demise of Digital Dysfunction” challenges the common assumption that information overload is widespread and growing. We asked a leading segment of more than 2,000 tech-savvy Internet users about the effects of information and technology in their lives. Their answers hold eye-opening insights for digital business:
– Information overload is on the wane.
– High volumes of information … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Sources: Marketspace, tnbt.com | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis