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POPSSmarter Electric Grid With energy costs rising, this smart meter is an interesting way to help save on costs and conserve energy.
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POPSDisruptive Advertising This is an interesting article that shows you how an innovative advertising agency, TBWA, now TBWA Chiat Day, disrupted the advertising business turning companies like Adidas into brand names.
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POPSAuthoring Disruption According to Innosight's Innoblog, Luke Langford, an associate with the firm, writes that this professor creates his books in about half an hour and at a cost of about twelve cents (excluding printing). He can sell a single copy for $495. If he doesn’t get any orders, he loses almost nothing. But he has sold eighty to two-hundred thousand books. This is an example of technology facilitating a successful low-cost business model.
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POPSA Tricycle With Square Wheels While surely not disruptive, it is interesting that this tricycle, with four wheels, rolls smoothly- -under the right circumstances - and it certainly leads people to think out of the box!
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POPSBoltBus Takes on Fung Wah Alex Slawsby, of Innosight, writes in his company blog - Innoblog - that Greyhound and Peter Pan are introducing BoltBus, attempting to co-opt the disruptive low-cost business model introduced by Fung Wah and Lucky Star. By selling tickets online, rather than at ticket counters, BoltBus is able to markedly reduce its costs and thus maintain such low fares.
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POPSHow Hulu's Design Gets It Right Network TV has tried to capture the youth market by putting TV on the Web - but often its laden with advertising. Here, Fox and NBC have joined forces to give the youth market what they want - and in the process ward off potential, disruptive, competitors.
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POPSSpotless Car Windows - Without Wipers Auto manufacturers say car design has been limited by the need for window wipers. Now, manufacturers say that by using nanotechnology - they can liberate themselves of the needs for traditional wipers - and new designs will be forthcoming. We shall see!
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POPSLow Cost Innovation - from India I recently posted an article about India's Tata Group coming up with the $2500 automobile. Now the company is breaking into making cabins for helicopters and making components for planes.
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POPSBrainstorm or Braindrizzle? Brainstorming sessions usually result in.....just about nothing worthwhile. Here, the author provides tips to make brainstorming more productive.
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POPSThinking Green, Thinking Disruptively This is great - companies are increasingly focused on their role for improving the environment - and in doing so, they are coming up with new, disruptive growth opportunities.
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POPSMicrosoft, Yahoo and the Innovator's Dilemma Over a decade after it publicly committed to the Internet and took on Netscape, Microsoft still has not opened the aperture to new and different business models, still has not thought outside the box about what the Internet is and can be. Unless it handles the Yahoo acquisition correctly – by maintaining an appropriate degree of autonomy, or, as Blodgett calls it, leaving it free to destroy the mothership – Google’s disruptive march will continue.
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POPSBeam it Down From the Web, Scotty If you’ve ever wished you could buy your very own Star Trek-type replicator, you’re finally in luck. While not quite so instantaneous or hands-off, it is now actually possible to create a vase or spatula right on your desktop. And “3D printing,” as it is known, is a technology with incredible disruptive potential.\ While the potential for this technology outside the rapid prototyping market is vast, the eventual markets for 3D printing are not exactly known.
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POPSSecond Life for Lotus Notes IBM plans to announce a Lotus Notes email package for the iPhone. Interesting opportunity for Lotus and interesting that IBM and Apple are collaborating.
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POPSBlackberry Challenger This could be an interesting challenge to RIMM's market, especially as it tries to gain market share outside of just the enterprise. But to really gain the business market, the company needs to be able to integrate with corporate infrastructure.
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POPSWikia Search - Can it Disrupt Google? Wikia Seach was recently launched and everyone agrees that it, well, sucks. But here, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia Search explains that while the search so far isn't good, its the way Wikia Search is built that will eventually make all the difference.
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POPSGet a Text Message from Your Dog Every few seconds, a pet is lost or an automobile is stolen. This, nifty, new innovative device displayed at CES this year uses GPS to track down lost items.
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POPSTata Coffee Gets Innovative to Tackle Pests Innovation at the Tata conglomerate goes beyond just the development of a $2,500 car - which has been all over the news lately. Tata Coffee has come up with a way to improve the cultivation of coffee while reducing the number of pests, like root diseases.
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POPSIndia's Tata Leads Car Innovation Interesting story, but this was already covered on Forbes.com in October 2007! See the story, Tata Motors Vs. Obvio! written by the consulting firm, Innosight.
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POPSMcDonald's Brews Up a Coffee War Over the years, McDonald's has sharpened its innovation process. Now, the move to take on Starbucks while its down could be a big driver of new revenue. Check out Clayton Christensen's Forbes.com article - Innovation: A Happy Meal For McDonald's.
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