As the CEO of a software R&D services firm that focuses on new and game-changing technology, I’m often asked what technology trends I see dominating the year ahead. I have several predictions for 2012, and I thought it would be fun to share them with you and learn what trends you foresee developing in the [...]
Continue reading...1. November 2011, by Peter Harrison
A farmer adding an extra bushel of fertilizer to a saturated cornfield; a student cramming for one more hour after 2AM; a homeowner remodeling beyond the value of his neighborhood – all are examples of the Law of Diminishing Returns, which states, “As more investment in an area is made, overall return on that investment [...]
Continue reading...24. June 2011, by PG
In my forthcoming book, “Innovative Kids: A Workbook for 8 to 12 Year-olds”, I explain both invention and innovation to kids and their parents. USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office) has conveniently defined “invention” for us. There are 3 requirements: novel, useful and un-obvious. The first two are clear enough. “Un-obvious” means that your idea [...]
Continue reading...6. March 2011, by Peter Harrison
Just last month, Borders, the second largest bookstore chain in the US, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is now closing 30% of its stores. With rapidly eroding capital resources and more than $1 billion in debt, Borders may be the biggest bankruptcy in the history of the book business. The Blockbuster story is [...]
Continue reading...23. December 2008, by Sachin Saxena
Recently Enthiosys (a GlobalLogic partner) was at GlobalLogic’s Noida offices. In all our partner engagements we start with a few weeks of face-2-face discussion. During this time the teams are immersed in the product discussion; crossing geographic boundaries, functional boundaries, and organizational boundaries. This kick-off was different. The details of the kick-off planning included us [...]
Continue reading...8. December 2008, by Aparajita Mukhopadhyay
We had two days of fun filled and very effective sessions with Luke Hohmann on ‘Innovation Games’ .You could read more about these games at http://innovationgames.com/the-games/ Initially, I was a little apprehensive about the sessions as I was involved in preparing for these sessions and there was quite some stuff including stickers to be collected. I [...]
Continue reading...23. November 2008, by Sachin Saxena
Over the last few months, I had noticed a growing trend amongst C-levels at companies, covers of magazines such as BusinessWeek, Time, Fortune cover the topic of innovation, but that was a few months ago. September 2009 seems to have put a damper on some of these well meaning and well laid-out plans to create [...]
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29. December 2011, by Peter Harrison
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