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Fri, Jan 18, 2008 13:55 EST

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Posted by: Elana Varon in Soapbox Topic: DevelopmentBlog: Innovation and IT Strategy
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I have on my desk a bottle of Poland Spring water that I picked up at a meeting. It touts a new "eco-shape," that uses less plastic, and, as a result, the company claims vaguely, produces
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Posted by: Elana Varon in Questions Topic: Enterprise ManagementBlog: Innovation and IT Strategy
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Do IT leaders struggle with innovation because they're too analytical? A new study suggests that leading too much with one's head might have something to do with why many companies struggle with
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Posted by: Elana Varon in Rants Topic: Enterprise ManagementBlog: Innovation and IT Strategy
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Yet another study finds that executives talk a good game about how important IT is to business operations and future competitiveness, but they aren't doing much about it. The latest is a survey of
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Posted by: Elana Varon in Soapbox Topic: DevelopmentBlog: Innovation and IT Strategy
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Kudos to Nate Quigley, the chief executive of LiveTV, which is managing JetBlue's rollout of new email and instant messaging services. Quigley is quoted in today's New York Times: "Sometimes,
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Posted by: Elana Varon in Soapbox Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Innovation and IT Strategy
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So Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally admitted that he screwed up his implementation of Beacon. Apologies get a bad rap these days (for good reason), and a lot of Facebook's critics are having none
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Posted by: Elana Varon in Soapbox Topic: Personal ManagementBlog: Innovation and IT Strategy
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Alexander Graham Bell was 29 when he received his patent for the telephone. Guglielmo Marconi was a teenager when be began tinkering with wireless technology. Those Google guys? In their twenties
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Posted by: Elana Varon in Soapbox Topic: DevelopmentBlog: Innovation and IT Strategy
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I have relatives on the West coast, and every fall my family has a conversation about whether to fly out there for Christmas. It typically ends when someone (usually me), contemplates aloud the lines
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