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Clayton Christensen Demolishes Jill Lepore’s Critique of Disruptive Innovation
Last week, the New Yorker published Harvard historian Jill Lepore’s sharply worded critique of both Clayton Christensen and his theory of disruptive innovation. Some journalists piled on, further deriding “disruption zealots” and their leader, while others jumped to Christensen’s defense. Meanwhile, Drake Bennet at Business Week … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management
Tagged Clayton Christensen, Disruptive innovation, Jill Lepore
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Under the Grand Chapiteau
… of Cirque du Soleil. In the rigging there is an incredible amalgamation of technology and artistry that extends the capabilities of performers in astonishing ways.
NASA Makes Progress on World’s Largest Rocket
Yahoo News has a short video on the progress NASA is making developing the Space Launch System (SLS), which would be the world’s largest rocket when operational. Unfortunately, what NASA has produced to date is mostly scale models and animated movies, with the … Continue reading
Los Angeles County is Moving All Employees to the Cloud
All 100,000 LA County employees, including 20,000 police are moving to Office 365 for their business work environment. Besides the savings from consolidating various department installations into one contract, cutting maintenance costs, and only paying for active employees, security was … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Innovation
Tagged Cloud Computing, Los Angeles County, Microsoft, Office 365
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Paper Airplanes Transform Into Tiny Drones
From the WSJ: Fold a sheet of paper a few times, clip on a tiny propeller and rudder, launch an iPhone app, and you have a mini drone.
A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop
Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material, in new research elegantly explained by Cindi May: Research by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer demonstrates that students who write out their notes on paper actually learn more. … Continue reading
Posted in Learning
Tagged college students, Daniel Oppenheimer, deeper understanding, internet access, Pam Mueller
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The Future of Work Looks Like a UPS Truck
UPS used to be a trucking company. Now it’s a technology company; every truck a rolling computer with artificial intelligence tracking wherever the vehicle and its packages go, trying to make deliveries quicker and more efficient. At the center of the entire web … Continue reading
Pfizer gives up the chase.
Pfizer is saying today that it does not intend to extend a firm offer for AstraZeneca, bringing an end to its attempt to acquire the UK drug maker. AZ shareholders were split on the latest offer, and a stumble by AZ would … Continue reading
China crackdowns squeeze pharma margins
From Reuters: A crackdown on corruption and pricing in China’s fast-growing pharmaceutical market has squeezed profits and margins, raising a red flag to global Big Pharma that the days of easy growth in the country may be over. Over the … Continue reading
Posted in Pharmaceutical Industry
Tagged branded generics, China, Pharmaceutical industry
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Vinod Khosla says replacing doctors with data crunchers is good medicine
Valley Beat author Mark Sullivan has a short article on some remarks by Vinod Khosla at Stanford University School of Medicine’s Big Data in Biomedicine Conference: Khosla has for a long time believed that machines armed with mountains of data will (and should) make … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Innovation
Tagged big data, healthcare, mechanized intelligence, Vinod Khosla
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