Focus on the Customer This week Len Polizzotto and I held an interactive workshop on the Practice of Innovation in Taipei, Taiwan. The workshop was with 18 Lite-On executives, led by Alex Huang and Tom Soong. Lite-On is a leading, $7 billion dollar company (In the picture I am in the back with the blue shirt, Len is to my left, Tom is to my right, and Alex is to the.. Read More
Valley of Death
Call It Value Creation I was in a meeting with a number of people responsible for R&D and innovation funding. We were discussing how industry and university collaborations might be made more successful. Today most agreed, results are poor.
4Q Innovators
IQ, EQ, SQ, and GQ What’s a T-shaped person? At conferences on innovation there are often discussions about personality types that make for good innovators. One popular designation is “T-type” or “T-shaped” personalities. There are different definitions for T-types, so there is some confusion about what “T” means. For example, the “T” can stand for thrill seeking. “A personality type that takes risks. Type Ts tend to be extroverted and creative, and crave novel experiences and.. Read More
Siri: A Disruptive Innovation
Adam Cheyer Discusses the Origins of Siri What does it take to create a world-changing, disruptive technical innovation? The history and technology behind Siri, the world’s first intelligent computer assistant, is described here by Adam Cheyer, one of the founders of Siri, the SRI company bought by Steve Jobs for use on the iPhone-4. Siri added tens of billions of dollars of market value to Apple and profoundly changed the way the world thinks about interacting with.. Read More
