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Much has been said about the virtues of failure — it’s a learning opportunity, it happens to everyone, it’s character-building. Failure is becoming some romanticized rite of passage, invoking images of young entrepreneurs burning the midnight oil and yelling “Eureka!” I can say from experience that any entrepreneur who fails repeatedly before finding the golden ticket had better be...
Unhappily shocked by Sputnik’s unexpected 1957 success, President Eisenhower quickly pushed the Pentagon to establish the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Its ostensible mission: “to prevent technological surprise to the U.S. military, and to create surprises of its own.” Anticipating...
GE, perhaps more than any other major company, is dedicated to the use of data visualization as a key part of its marketing and communications efforts. Stemming from last month’s Insight Center on visualizing data, I spoke with Linda Boff, GE’s executive director of global brand marketing, about the benefits and challenges of this approach. An edited version of our conversation is below. What’s...
InnovationAfrica is pleased to provide a free version of the book ” My Simple Innovation Action Book to Change My World” by Pradyot Sahu. The link is at the end of the page. The author is from India. As such he writes from a perspective that Africans can relate to. This is an example of South-South Innovation which we can learn from. Similar Products: Powered by South-South...
Direct micro-lending is all the rage, but while it has many advantages for the poor, not everyone needs to be an entrepreneur. Most people just want a job. Small and medium enterprises, companies that employ five to 500 people, are crucial for development because they create economic value more efficiently than tiny enterprises. Rather than focusing mostly on microenterprises, donors and investors should...
We know there’s dissonance between corporate IT and the C-suite. New research, conducted with HBR, The Economist, CEB, and TNS Global, reveals that CEOs believe CIOs are not in sync with the new issues CEOs are facing. CEOs also tell us that CIOs do not understand where the business needs to go and how IT should support strategic goals. The dissonance is due to the changes in the business world, and the...
