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I was reading an article recently that suggested there are basically 4 types of innovation that a company might seek to undertake:

1. Product innovation, whereby a new product or service is brought to market or a current one improved;
2. Process innovation, whereby processes and procedures are modified to make them more efficient
3. Positioning innovation, whereby a product or service stays fundamentally the same but is sold to a different market or as a different proposition
4. Paradigm innovation, whereby an innovation is effectively disruptive and facilitates some form of fundamental change

Continue reading ‘Innovation axes in IT…’ »

It is interesting that the issue of how green IT can be viewed as is coming to the fore. I was recently sent a notification of the existence of the following site:

http://www.businessgreen.com/

Among its articles is this one about the green IT:

http://www.businessgreen.com/financial-director/comment/2214911/emerald-city

The article concentrates surveys about the state of green IT, and the lack of trust that IT purchasers have in the “Green” claims of suppliers. The rush to green wash products is leaving many, me included, sceptical that the benefits extend to the environment and purchasers bank balance – rather than the suppliers. Continue reading ‘From the news: Green IT’ »

I find it interesting that both Google and Yahoo are getting involved in super computers – and hiring or loaning out the results to others. The following article makes the point:

Yahoo! outsources! India’s! giant! supercomputer!

This is a HP/Yahoo initiative that seems to be a match for a recent IBM/Google move. Continue reading ‘From the news: Computing power for hire’ »