The tangled ties between creativity and profit
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In ''Cult of the Mouse," former Walt Disney Co. department head Henry Caroselli argues that corporate America has been taken over by an eighth dwarf: ''Greedy."
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Two main factors, attitude and income, help determine whether someone will buy the latest technology or hold back.
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This book attempts to demolish the notion that ''new is better.&quot; For the most part, it succeeds. Sergio Zyman and coauthor Armin A. Brott build a solid foundation for their argument that innovation can be disastrous for the bottom line. Innovation is like a sugar high, they say -- a quick fix that just doesn't work.
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Three ways to profits when there's value inside.
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Technology and business innovation go hand in hand.
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InfoWorld - It doesn't take a genius to catch on to the fact that in IT, innovation is a mandate. Push the envelope of what's possible, or find yourself relegated to wayside. But, to borrow a favored David St. Hubbins Spinal Tap aphorism, there's a fine line between clever and crackpot when it comes to making good on technological breakthroughs in the enterprise.
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Innovative ideas and technology provide many ways to give--time, money or both.
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Studio Nomisma indica differenze strutturali e inefficienze
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When trouble strikes, a company's founder usually can't help but come to the rescue. But do they do more harm than good?
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Scandinavian, socialist, party people Open source startups can hit profitability sooner than it took closed source incumbents, as long as they steer clear of rivals' costly business practices.â¦
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Whether humans will embrace or resist an innovation is the billion-dollar question facing designers of novel products and services.
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Companies love to give away prizes, but that doesn't make them winners.
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What matters most for earnings growth: margins or sales growth?
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Rebalancing a portfolio works best when it's linked to performance.
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Fred Wilson thinks so. And I agree. The reason the tech sector runs in cycles of euphoric booms and deep busts is that there is little support for long-term investment in tech. The new concepts that will fuel the next boom cycle are already here, but there isn't enough money flowing into developing them. The ideas that are getting investment are more and more derivative of the original idea that fueled the boom cycle that is now (likely) coming to an end. If you look back at the last two busts, there was one in the early 90s when the software boom had run out of juice, and then in the early 00s when the web boom had run its course. In both cases, the seeds of the next boom were already planted, but the investors weren't pushing money in their direction. The savior after the early 90s bust was the web, and the second was what they call Web 2.0, which is a really lame way to describe the networked creative environment, what I called the Two-Way Web. I'm going to be in NY in October, and I hope to meet with Fred and other investors to talk about how we can soften the busts and enhance the booms.
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Creative semantics will not lead to improved profits.
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By Dolbeck, Andrew  The media business is big business. The industry's high potential profits draw investors while high levels of competition drive dealmaking and consolidation.