Monthly Archives: October 2011
I was honored to be the keynote speaker at the 2011 Dorland Health Peoples Awards luncheon at the National Press Club where healthcare professionals across a variety of settings within the U.S. healthcare system were recognized for leadership, creativity, and program innovation. Continue reading
Do the iPad and iPhone revolutions forecast a deeper turmoil? Can this rate of tech change be sustained and exceeded? In my lifetime the rate of technological change has been very apparent. There’s no doubt it’s accelerating. More smartphones and tablets than PCs are being sold and 550,000 Android devices are activated every day. Those figures bear testament to an incredible feat of design, manufacture, logistics and support. Continue reading
We all know that when it comes to business, and life in general, that there are two major constraints we all face – and often trade off one against the other – those two constraints are time and money. How do companies balance the day to day operations with the need to innovate? Continue reading
Whether you’re rallying support for a new innovation idea, seeking investors for a new business, partners to help sell your services, or new prospects to fill your pipeline, an effective elevator pitch is critical. Continue reading
What exactly are we learning from global analytics? In a recent post I described the use of analytics to uncover insights into how EMC Worldwide sponsors organic innovation around the globe. For this post I’d like to dive a little bit further into some data that one of our Distinguished Engineers generated via his use of the “R” analytics platform. During this year’s annual Innovation Showcase, EMC received 1,590 ideas from global employees. Continue reading
Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. In The Joy of Stats he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Continue reading
