FredericMartin - Blognotes 2.0

Obama 2.0 09

Let´s see how far the new US president achieves implementing all his innovative ideas this year. At least, he´s brilliant and successful in leveraging technology to "crowdsource" ideas and viewpoints from hundreds of thousands US citizens via his interactive portal. This time, he´s asking what you would like to see changed and how you think it could be changed. Politics 2.0 is born.

A Top 10 books 2008 on innovation & management

Business Week is publishing a top ten of the best books 2008 on innovation [Click each picture to learn more]. Three of them have drawn my attention: 1. Groundswell is on how companies utilize social technologies to create, promote and share new ideas 2. Here Comes Everybody describes the impact of social technologies on contemporary culture 3. The new Age of Innovation is about driving co-created value through global networks. I will comment on those later on. My favourite management readings 2008 I shared in a previous post here. And here is another interesting top 10 of management books on the excellent BNet - management blog.

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Special BusinessWeek Report on the Wikinomy

The co-authors of the recent best-seller Wikinomics (see my previous article here) have a serie of interesting articles at BusinessWeek. There you find the key-topics of their book in short with a free access:

- Innovation in the Age of Mass Collaboration	- Peer Innovation and Production
- Ideagora, a Marketplace for Minds	- Hack This Product, Please!
- The New Science of Sharing	- The Global Plant Floor
- Opening Up to Collaboration	- The Wiki Workplace

Future Mobile Phone powered by Nanotechnologies

  Imagine a mobile phone that you can fold around your arm. Imagine a phone that cleans itself. Imagine a phone whose shape is changing to adapt to your style. Welcome to the world of nanotechnologies. Nokia - in association with Cambridge University - is working on a prototype called Morph to demonstrate possibilities offered by nanotechnologies in the future. According to the manufacturer such concepts could reach the consumer market in the next ten to fifteen years.

Blognotes is opening its resources on Netvibes Ginger

The new social version of Netvibes - called Ginger - went beta recently. I released today my sources of information under Netvibes/FredericMartin. You find there great RSS resources on technology, management, marketing, web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, web tools and international news from around the world for English, French and German readers. Enjoy.

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Breakthrough thinking from INSIDE the box

An interesting article written by Mc Kinsey consultants on breakthrough thinking. They first dress the limits of classic brainstorming sessions an then propose a structured approach. Interesting is also their list of 21 questions to develop new products.

Marketing of technological innovation

This is an interesting online course held by Yann Gourvennec at Paris Dauphine on marketing technological innovation.