innovation in comment and analysis
The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story
Comment Moronic end users are putting paid to any hope of introducing innovation at Naked CIO's new company. What part of innovation do these morons not understand? Innovation is the art of applying new and better methods to solving traditional problems. [18 Feb 2008]
Leader: Innovation doesn't always equal financial success
Leader By its own admission, although the company covers a number of areas now, from PCs for consumers and businesses, to higher-end IT gear, to consumer electronics even, its main areas of innovation are in its supply chains and assembly. [18 Jan 2005]
Leader: The business of innovation
Leader But in looking for sources of innovation and inspiration, perhaps the business leaders could be just the people to help out CIOs. This is different - completely different - to innovation in technology for its own sake but with little practical... [15 May 2006]
Editor's Blog: The meaning of innovation
Comment One of our reporters recently caught up with the head of innovation for Microsoft UK. Now I personally have some issue with a view that the UK must look to the US for leadership on innovation. But we've usually been pretty terrible at exploiting... [02 Mar 2007]
Innovation the loser in patent row
Comment It is a row that has been raging for over three years now as the European Commission wrestles with arguments that software patents will protect the dominance of the big IT players and stifle innovation at the small and medium-sized end of the market. [28 Aug 2003]
SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...
Comment Ninety days into the job, Manocha spoke to silicon.com about the changes he's made at SAS UK, how consolidation of the software industry could threaten innovation, and how his experiences in the military have helped him in his new job. [02 Apr 2008]
Devil's Advocate: Patents are killing software innovation
Comment There is a risk that patents will strangle the life out of software innovation. The claim by proponents of patents is that without them, there will be no economic mechanism to drive software innovation. [31 Aug 2004]
Why Europe lags in the innovation stakes
Comment Figures plucked from the European Commission's first annual 'Innovation Scoreboard', due out on Monday, will show European businesses invest just 1.19 per cent of GDP in R&D. When it comes to research and development investment by UK businesses... [28 Sep 2001]
Leader: UK innovation - don't knock it
Leader Attendees at the silicon.com CIO Forum yesterday hit out at a perceived lack of innovation in UK businesses and bemoaned the risk-averse culture and outdated attitudes towards technology. More concerning, however, at the other end of the scale is... [28 Sep 2004]
Q&A: Microsoft UK head of innovation Jim Lawn
Comment Microsoft UK's head of innovation, Jim Lawn, is heading up a strategy to keep Microsoft's finger on Blighty's entrepreneurial pulse. Lawn's job role is to create and drive a strategy that ensures Microsoft not only plays its part as an innovator in... [01 Mar 2007]
Devil's Advocate: Gadgetry without innovation?
Comment Technology has moved on and innovation is always welcome in tough times - so why is the PC world so conservative? All of that is being undermined by the ever more complex and platform dependent developments that currently count as innovation. [27 Nov 2001]
Tech innovation goes global
Comment This group has helped us come up with a list of the 20 cities of worldwide importance in terms of innovation, development, use or manufacture of enterprise technology. But that doesn't mean California is the only place where tech innovation is... [03 Jun 2008]
John Lamb's Week: Innovation, in its various forms
Comment The Essex boffins, who absorb a sizeable chunk of Nortel's European R&D budget, are certainly delivering the goods for the Canadian networking company. They filed an astonishing 190 patents last year. [23 Feb 2001]
The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment Governance produces a constant stream of rules that stifle innovation, impede productivity and create barriers between IT and the business. Failure to foster innovation and talent is what's really coming home to roost, says the Naked CIO. [14 Jul 2008]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile This year the BBC is really stepping up its innovation on the digital and new media platforms and over Freeview and DAB digital radio. TV-on-demand, a bespoke media player, streamed shows and a greater reliance upon interactivity are keeping the... [23 Sep 2005]
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