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Improving the Innovation Process
Posted by Bain Hollister on 27 October 2009 | 0 Comments
An excellent late afternoon session organised by Wayne Hudson and the folks at Hudson Gavin Martin today on improving the innovation process in New Zealand. Kristian Slack of InnovIQ kicked things off with a presentation on Productivity of Investment in Innovation, which provided great context for a robust discussion on IP challenges in startup companies and the general state of the patent industry both in NZ and abroad. NZ is in an interesting place in terms economy, geography, and demographics to capitalise on the changes in IP protection and management that may evolve globally - particularly around trends toward open innovation frameworks. Some great stories, ideas and anecdotes shared in the spirit of collaboration.
Fruits of Design
Posted by Bain Hollister on 22 October 2009 | 0 Comments
Notwithstanding they are huge fans of Apple over at RoughlyDrafted.com- there are some compelling stats in this Nokia/Apple article. For a relatively new entrant into the smart phone market - Apple really are in a phenomenal position revenue and margin-wise.
Cloudbreak Tech Drop
Posted by Bain Hollister on 9 October 2009 | 1 Comments
Last night we ran our regular "ClearPoint Tech Drop : Enterprise SaaS with Google Apps". Big thanks to Jan and Susan from Cloudbreak for sharing their knowledge and experience with the ClearPoint network. As part of the programme we ran through the changes that are occurring in the Enterprise SaaS market and some real world implementation stories. There's no doubt that there is a huge amount of investment going on globally - and it is still very early days. We covered all sorts of aspects including lifecycle of an implementation, information protection, security and authentication models, full lifecycle licensing and hardware costs, operational costs, service levels, DR, change management and some very interesting project 'gotchas' that can potentially arise.
Information really is beautiful
Posted by Bain Hollister on 4 October 2009 | 0 Comments
One of our ClearPoint perspectives is that we - the collective Information Technology world "we" - are only just scratching the surface of technologies that can visualise information from data in a meaningful, relative and easily consumable way. Two cool examples twittered today;