We can see if the company is putting its money where its mouth is by measuring how much it spends on innovation relative to other companies in its industry.  In his article, Schrage references a then recently published report, 2005: Money Isn’t Everything by the global management consulting firm Booz and Company.  MORE >>

The world was waking up to the growing economic power of emerging markets and the BRICs in particular, especially with the publication of The World is Flat in April of 2005, Tom Friedman’s best-seller that did so much to explain the transformative powers of globalization and digital technologies. As summarized in its  website :  . MORE >>

In an analysis of US labor productivity over the previous fifty years, Harvard economist Dale Jorgenson and his collaborators concluded that “the pessimism of the computer productivity paradox gave way to near-universal belief in a productivity resurgence led by information technology in the late 1990s. invest in corporate culture. MORE >>

On October 6, the Technology CEO Council released its report One Trillion Reasons: How Commercial Best Practices to Maximize Productivity Can Save Taxpayer Money and Enhance Government Services.  Both have access to innovative technologies and management practices that can be of significant help in dealing with their complex operations.  MORE >>

The half-day conference consisted of two panels : one on the social and technological innovation being brought about by social media, and the other on the implications of social media to business.  The panel focused on the implications of social media to the communications and media industries as well as to organizations in general.  MORE >>