A Product Innovation Charter (PIC) can help prevent scope creep for both the technology and market dimensions. The PIC is supposed to have guidance from top management to the innovation team about the market focus and the technology focus that the multi-disciplinary team should try to maintain. Here is how both these focus points are derived:
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Google does not judge you : the “MahaMac Gandhi” query
The awesome power of Google and the other search engines in not merely in showing you some answer for whatever might be your question but the total "non-judgemental" nature of the Internet search experience. Ask anything, for example, the"MahaMac Gandhi" query that attracted one creative searcher to this blog. I guess this blog is fairlyContinue reading “Google does not judge you : the “MahaMac Gandhi” query”
America Invents Act 2011 to become law next week: how it might create jobs
President Obama's jobs speech of Thursday signalled the massive reform of US patent law to spur innovation and jobs. It's intriguing that lots of main stream media is criticizing the law given that it was passed in a bipartisan fashion (for a change 89 for and 9 against in the Senate). The mere fact ofContinue reading “America Invents Act 2011 to become law next week: how it might create jobs”
Google Patent Search helps acquisitions and defend IP- as in Motorola
If you use Google Patents (Beta) , you can search patents and that allows you to find patents around a technology and who else is citing a patent. So let us say Apple cites a Motorola patent and Google acquires all of Motorola's patents its hard for Apple to prove that Google Android or MotorolaContinue reading “Google Patent Search helps acquisitions and defend IP- as in Motorola”
Netflix to stream movies in all global markets, cut out postal services – grow movie industry
Netflix used the US Post to famously distribute movies in America after the founder Reed Hastings was charged late fees for late return of a rental movie to a movie rental store. Netflix involves a monthly subscription of under $10 and you can take as many movies you want, just use US Post and theContinue reading “Netflix to stream movies in all global markets, cut out postal services – grow movie industry”
US Innovation: A High-Tech small sector led growth is the answer ?
Where can US Innovation lead to jobs is a question on everyone's minds. A clue is from today's stock rally, spurred in part by the Fusion-io IPO, after six days of stock market losses. Fusion-io makes flash memory storage and its largest customer is Facebook who use their infrastructure to manage all those millions ofContinue reading “US Innovation: A High-Tech small sector led growth is the answer ?”
Moving intellectual property including patents, computer code and trade secrets overseas for lower taxes
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Disintermediation with Technology and the Indian phone booth
Three years ago I posted about the cell phone charging business in India and my friend Devinder the owner of the shack like structure here. This January, almost exactly three years later I decided to catch up with Devinder as I found him mostly at his new photocopy center in the regular brick and cementContinue reading “Disintermediation with Technology and the Indian phone booth”
Drug recalls up three times in 2009- Generic OTC’s have a store brand but prescription generics are brand-less
In 2009 drug recalls are up over three times the rate in 2008. While one generic maker/re packager Advantage Dose accounts for about two and half times of the increase – it still appears that there is a 50% increase of recalls.Here’s what seems to be playing out for prescription generics. As the great recessionContinue reading “Drug recalls up three times in 2009- Generic OTC’s have a store brand but prescription generics are brand-less”
Muffin know-how is as important to bakery industry as scalable processors is to computer industry
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