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Barriers to Innovation: The challenges or barriers that slow down or prevent the innovation process
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Speech: Future Trends Predicted in 1999
Someone recently sent me an video of a speech I gave to HP back in 1999. At the time, I was still with Teligent. As I listen to it, I’m amazed at the points I made. Had I listened to myself, I would have saved myself a lot of grief from the decline in my […] http://www.techtrend.com/audio/PCM_CD_Vo
Speech: The Journey of the Communication Industry
Attached is a speech I gave yesterday here in Madrid, Spain at the HP Software Universe. The material presents the history (lessons learned) and future trends for the communication (or what HP calls the Network and Service Provider – NSP) industry. I apologize for the poor recording quality …. my vo
Speech: The Power Of Ubquity
Attached is the MP3 for a speech I gave at ITU Korea in September. This is a 20 minute presentation on “Ubiquity” (theme for ITU this year …). This is the first presentation where HP begins to define the concept behind “federation” as it applied to the communication industry. The speech covers: – fe
Speech: The Changing Experience Requirements
Here is another of the recent speeches (still trying to catch-up) ….. This is one I gave at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention last year. The core of the message is on the needs of the industry to look beyond just the “end user experience” and look towards: – the experience of
Speech: Capitalize on the digital entertainment revolution
I know it’s been some since I last posted recent speeches … so here is one that I delivered to the International Association of Radio and Television Engineers conference on October 21, 2004. I’ve attached both the presentation material and the MP3 recording of the speech. Sorry — HP requires that I
A Different Perspective
All of our lives, we’ve been conditioned to think in terms of opposites: – Up or down – Big or small – Fast or slow – Good or bad This simplistic way of dividing everything into equal and opposite groupings restricts our ability to recognize complexities. Subtleties. Opportunities in the chaos. Not
Smart Questions
The best innovations are those that come from smart questions. As a student, Dr. William Hunter, a leading cell biologist and CEO of Vancouver -based Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, was told by one professor that the difference between good science and great science is the quality of the questions posed.
Offshoring Innovation
The talk of offshoring jobs brings out the economic doomsayers. “..angry, disillusioned developers are talking about everything from political activism to organized labor in the hopes of stemming the tide of lost jobs.” DevX.Com 1 October 2003 “States Try to Stop U.S. Firms from Sending Hi-Tech Work
Bill Gates – Call for innovation
At the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Wash., Bill Gates challenged the audience to create solutions that will “change the way things are done.” Some of the items that he identified as the key areas of innovation were: – Terascale computing – Wireless mesh networking (low cost d2d auto
