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Prepare for a world of compound innovation which blends 3, 5, 10 strands of infotech, greentech, biotech and healthtech to solve the "Grand Challenges" our world faces-and the more routine ones Polymath is the Greek word for a Renaissance person like Leonardo Da Vinci or Ben Franklin who excels in many disciplines. The New Polymath is an enterprise which has learned to amalgamate 3, 5, 10 strands of technology-infotech, cleantech, healthtech, nanotech, biotech-to create compound new products and to innovate internal processes. Anchors around case studies on innovations and creative processes…mehr
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- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 384
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2010
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780470768457
- Artikelnr.: 37299183
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 384
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2010
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780470768457
- Artikelnr.: 37299183
Book. What Got Left Out? Acknowledgments. Prologue: The Field of Polymath
Dreams. PART I SPREZZATURA: THE ART OF MAKING THE COMPLEX LOOK EASY.
CHAPTER 1 The New Polymath: In an Age of "Wicked Problems" and Technology
Abundance. The Modern-Day Technology Polymath. Our "Grand Challenges". An
Extinct Species in Our Complex World? Leonardo 2.0. Don't Forget
Michelangelo, Raphael, and . . . "Spray Painters" in the New Renaissance.
Less Visible Signs of Our New Renaissance. Recap. CHAPTER 2 Modern-Day Dark
Ages: So Much Stagnation. "Empty Calories" in Infotech. Lack of Agreement
around Cleantech. Inconsistent Coverage in Healthtech. Turning the Tide.
Recap. CHAPTER 3 Polymath Profile #1: General Electric. GE Global Research.
Corporate IT. R&D at a Business Unit. Business Unit IT. Recap. PART II THE
R-E-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E FRAMEWORK: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR THE NEW POLYMATH.
CHAPTER 4 Residence: Better Technologically Equipped Than the Office.
Southwest Airlines and Consumerization. Apple and Consumerization. Rise of
the Tech-Savvy Consumer. Consumerization Impact--Not Just on the High-Tech
Industry. Wait until You See the Next-Generation Consumer. Technology,
Finally, Can Be about Revenue Generation. Technology as a Competitive
Advantage or Disadvantage. Consumer Sourcing. Consumer Technology Economics
Are Not Just for Consumers. If You Embed Technology into Your Products,
Think Like a Technology Company. Your Employees Are Tech-Savvy Consumers at
Home. Tech-Savvy Consumer = Smartass Consumer? Recap. CHAPTER 5 Exotics:
Innovation from Left Field. Women in Technology. Turn Your Internal
Technology into an Asset. Innovation from Back-Office Processes Like Human
Resources. Innovation from "Game Scores". Innovation from "Unconsolidating"
Vendor Bases. Business Model Innovation: Demarketing Your Core Product.
Business Model Innovation: "Make It Up in Years". Business Model
Innovation: Beyond "Freemium". The Silicon Valley Model: Move West, Young
Man. "Trickle-Up" Innovation. Don't Forget Your Backyard. Beyond BRICK.
Recap. CHAPTER 6 Polymath Profile #2: Cognizant. The Early Years. The
Structure for Growth. The Future "Future of Work". Recap. CHAPTER 7
Networks: Bluetooth to Broadband. Alexander Bell Is Looking Down in Awe.
Bell Is Also Looking Down in Consternation. Reinventing the Traditional
Telco. Who Is Willing to Wait for Telcos to Morph Themselves? Global
Telecom Race. Innovating the Telecom Supply Chain. Recap. CHAPTER 8
Polymath Profile #3: Plantronics. Five Decades of Telecommunications.
Consumerization Effect. Pushing Form/Function Boundaries. Recap. CHAPTER 9
Arsonists: And Other Disruptors. Myth of Moore's Law. Learning from the
Automobile Service Model MAXroam: Disrupting the International Mobile
Roaming Market. Zoho: Disrupting the Microsoft Office Market. Cartridge
World: Disrupting the Printer Ink Market. Rimini Street: Disrupting
Enterprise Software Maintenance Markets. ZDNet Blogs: Disrupting the
Technology "Influencer" Market. Agresso: Easing Disruptions at Its
Customers. HP and Cisco: Disrupting Each Other's Markets. When Disruptors
Get Disrupted: The Pharmaceuticals Example. SAP: Trying to Disrupt the
Database Market. Verizon: Disrupting Cable and Other Telcos. Recap. CHAPTER
10 Polymath Profile #4: W. R. Hambrecht. United Football League. The
Hambrecht OpenIPO Process. Recap. CHAPTER 11 Interfaces: For All Our
Senses. The BMW iDrive. Microsoft Surface Computer. The Sonos Controller.
The Tablet PC. Adobe Flash. Scanners and Bar Codes. Digitized Information
at Source. Wearable Computers. The CNN "Magic Wall". "SixthSense". Voice
Recognition. Digital Smelling and Tasting. The Brain-Machine Interface.
Unicode and Exotic Scripts. Recap. CHAPTER 12 Sustainability: Delivering to
Both the Green and Gold Agendas. Sustainability and Innovation in Public
Policy. Sustainability and Energy Frugality. Sustainability and Innovation
in Supply Chains. Sustainability and Innovation in Keeping Score.
Sustainability and Innovation in Education. Recap. CHAPTER 13 Polymath
Profile #5: Kleiner Perkins Cleantech. The Cleantech Market Opportunity.
Portfolio Company: Luca Technologies. Portfolio Company: Silver Spring
Networks. Portfolio Company: Bloom Energy. The Shifting Sands. Recap.
CHAPTER 14 Singularity: Human-Machine Convergence. State of Medical
Technology. Internet of Humans and Things. Medical Cities and High-Tech
Villages. Heartwarming Robots and Heartbreaking Autism. Personalized
Medicine and Personalized Doses. The Tiny and the Giant: Nanotech and
Sensory Databases. Recap. CHAPTER 15 Analytics: Spreadsheets, Search, and
Semantics. The Black Swan Is Not That Rare. It's the Age of "Big Data".
Deemphasize Slice and Dice, Reemphasize Decisions. We Still Have Plenty of
Small Data. Don't Ignore Unstructured Data. And Then There Is Web and
Social Data. This Much Data Equals Better Visualization Tools. This Much
Data Equals Massive Storage Requirements. This Much Data Equals Predictive
Powers. Recap. CHAPTER 16 Polymath Profile #6: National Hurricane Center.
Data Sources and Models. Data Products. Continuous Improvement. Recap.
CHAPTER 17 Networks Again: Communities, Crowds, Contracts, and
Collaboration. Aren't Communities a Relic from Communism? Enter Social
Customer Relationship Management. "Ding-Dong, It's the Avon Lady".
Starbucks' Pledge 5. First Generation of "True Customer Interaction"
Applications. You Call This a Light Application? Nobody Ever Accused SAP of
Being a Light Application. "Genomes" of Communities and Crowds. We Are
Supposed to Rely on Love and Glory in Our Talent? Then There Are Contracted
Crowds, Better Known as Outsourcing. It's a Plane, It's a Bird . . . It's
an Outsourcer? What's Accenture Doing with Lego? Employees Are Still a
Major Talent Category. How Do All These Talent Pools Collaborate? But . . .
Collaboration Is Mostly Unstructured! Recap. CHAPTER 18 Clouds:
Technology-as-a-Service. Microsoft's Cloud Infrastructure. DeVry in the
Cloud. NetSuite's Macro View from the Clouds. Bessemer's Investments in the
Cloud. Appirio: Clouds for Clients and for Itself. PaaS, as in Leapfrog.
Schumacher Group and the Network Effect. Private versus Public Clouds.
Altimeter Group: Born in the Cloud. Recap. CHAPTER 19 Polymath Profile #7:
salesforce.com. Democracy in Action. Transparency as Market Advantage.
Religious Wars. Recap. CHAPTER 20 Ethics: In an Age of Cyberwar and
Cloning. Discussion 1: Florida and Biofuels. Herman Tavani: Ethical
Computing. Discussion 2: GPS and Routing Traffic through Family
Neighborhoods. Gregory Call: The Law and Technology Spawned Ethical Issues.
Discussion 3: Neelie Kroes, Former EU Commissioner for Competition.
Governments and Our "Wicked Problems". Discussion 4: Google's Ethics.
Professor Batya Friedman: Value Sensitive Design. Discussion 5:
Environmental Trade-offs. Erik Keller: Technology Can Learn from
Horticulture. Discussion 6: Isaac Asimov and Rules for Robots. Troy
Angrignon: Learning from Hari Seldon. Discussion 7: Genetic Markers and
Prophylactic Treatments. Technology and Work/Life Balance. Discussion 8:
The "Patently Absurd" Patent System. Brian Sommer: Where Are the 10
Commandments of Technology? Recap. PART III GROOMING YOUR OWN NEW POLYMATH.
CHAPTER 21 Polymath Profile #8: BP CTO. CTO "Toolkit". CTO Philosophy. CTO
Team. The "Ecosystem". Recap. CHAPTER 22 Moon Shots for Budding Polymaths.
Michelangelo: Stretch the Stretch Goals. Leonardo: Live by the Ethos of
"And" Not "Or". Plato: Think Big, Act Small. Hypatia: Explore Exotic. Shen
Kuo: Exploit the Power of N. Thomas Jefferson: Hone Your Serendipity
"Sensors". Benjamin Franklin: Benchmark Often and Wide. Isaac Newton:
Leapfrog--Build on Baselines. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi: Stay Humble. Aristotle:
Embed Ethics in Innovation Plans. And the Sidebar Conversations. Epilogue:
The Beginner's Mind. Notes. About the Author. Index.
Book. What Got Left Out? Acknowledgments. Prologue: The Field of Polymath
Dreams. PART I SPREZZATURA: THE ART OF MAKING THE COMPLEX LOOK EASY.
CHAPTER 1 The New Polymath: In an Age of "Wicked Problems" and Technology
Abundance. The Modern-Day Technology Polymath. Our "Grand Challenges". An
Extinct Species in Our Complex World? Leonardo 2.0. Don't Forget
Michelangelo, Raphael, and . . . "Spray Painters" in the New Renaissance.
Less Visible Signs of Our New Renaissance. Recap. CHAPTER 2 Modern-Day Dark
Ages: So Much Stagnation. "Empty Calories" in Infotech. Lack of Agreement
around Cleantech. Inconsistent Coverage in Healthtech. Turning the Tide.
Recap. CHAPTER 3 Polymath Profile #1: General Electric. GE Global Research.
Corporate IT. R&D at a Business Unit. Business Unit IT. Recap. PART II THE
R-E-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E FRAMEWORK: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR THE NEW POLYMATH.
CHAPTER 4 Residence: Better Technologically Equipped Than the Office.
Southwest Airlines and Consumerization. Apple and Consumerization. Rise of
the Tech-Savvy Consumer. Consumerization Impact--Not Just on the High-Tech
Industry. Wait until You See the Next-Generation Consumer. Technology,
Finally, Can Be about Revenue Generation. Technology as a Competitive
Advantage or Disadvantage. Consumer Sourcing. Consumer Technology Economics
Are Not Just for Consumers. If You Embed Technology into Your Products,
Think Like a Technology Company. Your Employees Are Tech-Savvy Consumers at
Home. Tech-Savvy Consumer = Smartass Consumer? Recap. CHAPTER 5 Exotics:
Innovation from Left Field. Women in Technology. Turn Your Internal
Technology into an Asset. Innovation from Back-Office Processes Like Human
Resources. Innovation from "Game Scores". Innovation from "Unconsolidating"
Vendor Bases. Business Model Innovation: Demarketing Your Core Product.
Business Model Innovation: "Make It Up in Years". Business Model
Innovation: Beyond "Freemium". The Silicon Valley Model: Move West, Young
Man. "Trickle-Up" Innovation. Don't Forget Your Backyard. Beyond BRICK.
Recap. CHAPTER 6 Polymath Profile #2: Cognizant. The Early Years. The
Structure for Growth. The Future "Future of Work". Recap. CHAPTER 7
Networks: Bluetooth to Broadband. Alexander Bell Is Looking Down in Awe.
Bell Is Also Looking Down in Consternation. Reinventing the Traditional
Telco. Who Is Willing to Wait for Telcos to Morph Themselves? Global
Telecom Race. Innovating the Telecom Supply Chain. Recap. CHAPTER 8
Polymath Profile #3: Plantronics. Five Decades of Telecommunications.
Consumerization Effect. Pushing Form/Function Boundaries. Recap. CHAPTER 9
Arsonists: And Other Disruptors. Myth of Moore's Law. Learning from the
Automobile Service Model MAXroam: Disrupting the International Mobile
Roaming Market. Zoho: Disrupting the Microsoft Office Market. Cartridge
World: Disrupting the Printer Ink Market. Rimini Street: Disrupting
Enterprise Software Maintenance Markets. ZDNet Blogs: Disrupting the
Technology "Influencer" Market. Agresso: Easing Disruptions at Its
Customers. HP and Cisco: Disrupting Each Other's Markets. When Disruptors
Get Disrupted: The Pharmaceuticals Example. SAP: Trying to Disrupt the
Database Market. Verizon: Disrupting Cable and Other Telcos. Recap. CHAPTER
10 Polymath Profile #4: W. R. Hambrecht. United Football League. The
Hambrecht OpenIPO Process. Recap. CHAPTER 11 Interfaces: For All Our
Senses. The BMW iDrive. Microsoft Surface Computer. The Sonos Controller.
The Tablet PC. Adobe Flash. Scanners and Bar Codes. Digitized Information
at Source. Wearable Computers. The CNN "Magic Wall". "SixthSense". Voice
Recognition. Digital Smelling and Tasting. The Brain-Machine Interface.
Unicode and Exotic Scripts. Recap. CHAPTER 12 Sustainability: Delivering to
Both the Green and Gold Agendas. Sustainability and Innovation in Public
Policy. Sustainability and Energy Frugality. Sustainability and Innovation
in Supply Chains. Sustainability and Innovation in Keeping Score.
Sustainability and Innovation in Education. Recap. CHAPTER 13 Polymath
Profile #5: Kleiner Perkins Cleantech. The Cleantech Market Opportunity.
Portfolio Company: Luca Technologies. Portfolio Company: Silver Spring
Networks. Portfolio Company: Bloom Energy. The Shifting Sands. Recap.
CHAPTER 14 Singularity: Human-Machine Convergence. State of Medical
Technology. Internet of Humans and Things. Medical Cities and High-Tech
Villages. Heartwarming Robots and Heartbreaking Autism. Personalized
Medicine and Personalized Doses. The Tiny and the Giant: Nanotech and
Sensory Databases. Recap. CHAPTER 15 Analytics: Spreadsheets, Search, and
Semantics. The Black Swan Is Not That Rare. It's the Age of "Big Data".
Deemphasize Slice and Dice, Reemphasize Decisions. We Still Have Plenty of
Small Data. Don't Ignore Unstructured Data. And Then There Is Web and
Social Data. This Much Data Equals Better Visualization Tools. This Much
Data Equals Massive Storage Requirements. This Much Data Equals Predictive
Powers. Recap. CHAPTER 16 Polymath Profile #6: National Hurricane Center.
Data Sources and Models. Data Products. Continuous Improvement. Recap.
CHAPTER 17 Networks Again: Communities, Crowds, Contracts, and
Collaboration. Aren't Communities a Relic from Communism? Enter Social
Customer Relationship Management. "Ding-Dong, It's the Avon Lady".
Starbucks' Pledge 5. First Generation of "True Customer Interaction"
Applications. You Call This a Light Application? Nobody Ever Accused SAP of
Being a Light Application. "Genomes" of Communities and Crowds. We Are
Supposed to Rely on Love and Glory in Our Talent? Then There Are Contracted
Crowds, Better Known as Outsourcing. It's a Plane, It's a Bird . . . It's
an Outsourcer? What's Accenture Doing with Lego? Employees Are Still a
Major Talent Category. How Do All These Talent Pools Collaborate? But . . .
Collaboration Is Mostly Unstructured! Recap. CHAPTER 18 Clouds:
Technology-as-a-Service. Microsoft's Cloud Infrastructure. DeVry in the
Cloud. NetSuite's Macro View from the Clouds. Bessemer's Investments in the
Cloud. Appirio: Clouds for Clients and for Itself. PaaS, as in Leapfrog.
Schumacher Group and the Network Effect. Private versus Public Clouds.
Altimeter Group: Born in the Cloud. Recap. CHAPTER 19 Polymath Profile #7:
salesforce.com. Democracy in Action. Transparency as Market Advantage.
Religious Wars. Recap. CHAPTER 20 Ethics: In an Age of Cyberwar and
Cloning. Discussion 1: Florida and Biofuels. Herman Tavani: Ethical
Computing. Discussion 2: GPS and Routing Traffic through Family
Neighborhoods. Gregory Call: The Law and Technology Spawned Ethical Issues.
Discussion 3: Neelie Kroes, Former EU Commissioner for Competition.
Governments and Our "Wicked Problems". Discussion 4: Google's Ethics.
Professor Batya Friedman: Value Sensitive Design. Discussion 5:
Environmental Trade-offs. Erik Keller: Technology Can Learn from
Horticulture. Discussion 6: Isaac Asimov and Rules for Robots. Troy
Angrignon: Learning from Hari Seldon. Discussion 7: Genetic Markers and
Prophylactic Treatments. Technology and Work/Life Balance. Discussion 8:
The "Patently Absurd" Patent System. Brian Sommer: Where Are the 10
Commandments of Technology? Recap. PART III GROOMING YOUR OWN NEW POLYMATH.
CHAPTER 21 Polymath Profile #8: BP CTO. CTO "Toolkit". CTO Philosophy. CTO
Team. The "Ecosystem". Recap. CHAPTER 22 Moon Shots for Budding Polymaths.
Michelangelo: Stretch the Stretch Goals. Leonardo: Live by the Ethos of
"And" Not "Or". Plato: Think Big, Act Small. Hypatia: Explore Exotic. Shen
Kuo: Exploit the Power of N. Thomas Jefferson: Hone Your Serendipity
"Sensors". Benjamin Franklin: Benchmark Often and Wide. Isaac Newton:
Leapfrog--Build on Baselines. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi: Stay Humble. Aristotle:
Embed Ethics in Innovation Plans. And the Sidebar Conversations. Epilogue:
The Beginner's Mind. Notes. About the Author. Index.