Recently, word leaked out that Intel (INTC) is evaluating whether to launch a new online television service that competes with cable. It will be a bold move for the chipmaker, which has developed a strong brand in the minds of the consumer, thanks to the long-running Intel Inside campaign. Such a radical shift into the [...]
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American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. While there have been scores of small wins and incremental advances that should probably get more notice, the primary theme has been to place big bets — bets that are starting to turn up sour. Last year got [...]
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In Facebook’s initial public offering filing, Mark Zuckerberg says his company adheres to “the hacker way.” Experiment, try a lot of new ideas, prototype them, and keep moving. It’s an ethic that the company will need more than ever when its shares are trading at a projected multiple of 25 times revenue. To meet elephantine [...]
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Apple just threw down the gauntlet to the K-12 publishing industry. In announcing iBooks 2, Apple is making a compelling case that if ever there was a time for school districts to switch from paper-based textbooks to a digital approach – it is now. Even in the absence of iBooks 2, the case was already [...]
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To mark the passing of one of the world’s all-time great innovators, some of the leaders of Innosight are reflecting on what Steve Jobs taught the world. He leaves as his legacy a set of lessons about innovation that will continue to inspire us for generations to come. These are just eight of the main takeaways [...]
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A vision for a smart energy grid has been around for at least 10 years, yet adoption remains painfully low, with only 5 million smart meters and 140,000 programmable communication thermostats installed across the United States. Many barriers are holding up deployment of an “energy internet,” including technology, public policy and business model issues. But [...]
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As the price of gasoline chugs toward an all-time high, there’s more incentive than ever to innovate new ways of getting around without the stuff. Given all the grief at the pump, the production of electric vehicles seems to be ramping up at just at the right time. Yet it’s still not clear how widely [...]
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Tribeca Film Festival creative director Geoffrey Gilmore with founders Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro. I had the chance to attend this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where Innosight founder Clay Christensen keynoted the annual Disruptive Innovation Awards. The event fit right into the festival’s new ethos, which is about leveraging technology to solve some of [...]
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A recent piece in the New York Times on a $12 solar panel at the heart of an emerging micro-economy in rural parts of Africa caught my eye. The system, called the Firefly, comes with a panel, a four-watt LED lightbulb, and an outlet for a cell phone charger. It is far simpler – and [...]
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“Asia Fueling Global Innovation.” That was the theme of the 2-hour panel discussion I moderated as part of a full-day ceremony celebrating the groundbreaking of Procter & Gamble’s SGD 250m Innovation Centre in Singapore. As promised, I asked Bruce Brown, P&G’s CTO, one of the questions readers submitted last week: “As you look forward into [...]
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