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A recent post on MinimalMac posits an interesting case for the slow, growing sense of the irrelevance of Microsoft, at least in the applications space. Go and read the piece – it’s excellent – but the gist is that for years Microsoft banked on Office being as important to users as, say, Windows. Office is Microsoft’s biggest money maker and for most of this decade no self-respecting IT department would consider any alternatives, even though they existed. You needed it to get work done.
The Post-Office Generation | TechCrunch
Now In Beta: Pinwheel Lets You Drop Virtual Notes Anywhere | Cult of Mac
This is Pinwheel, a new iOS app for leaving and finding virtual notes anywhere in the real world. It’s in private beta right now, but you can join in if you ask nicely and leave your email address in the box of the Pinwheel home page. Pinwheel is the brainchild of former Flickr and Hunch co-founder, Caterina Fake. She announced on her blog yesterday:
Brainstorming 2.0: Making Ideas That Really Happen :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
One of the most common questions we hear at 99% is: “How do I get more out of my brainstorming sessions?” While brainstorming sessions have become perhaps the most iconic act of creativity, we still struggle with how to give them real utility. The problem of course is that most brainstorming sessions conclude prematurely. We all love to dream big and come up with “blue sky” ideas. We’re less fond of diving into the nitty-gritty details of creative execution. As a result, we spend 90% of our time coming up with a bunch of great ideas, and maybe 10% (if any!)
IN SINGAPORE conversations about water quickly turn political. The city-state no longer wants to depend on water from Malaysia when the current water-supply agreement between the two countries expires in 2061. More than once the neighbour to the north, of which Singapore was part before an acrimonious split in 1965, has threatened to increase prices or even cut off supplies.
A special report on smart systems: Living on a platform | The Economist
Every 50 years or so a new body of technology comes along and slowly transforms the economy. Can such a transformation be happening today? And if so... how does it work?
How Technology is Recreating the 21st-century Economy - PARC, a Xerox company
Fuelled by concerns over rising income inequality, Occupy Wall Street has grown into a global movement in slightly over 2 months, with protests in over 900 cities worldwide. Protestors have been criticised for lacking a specific set of policy demands, but in this the protestors are hardly alone. There is no clear consensus among either academics or policy makers as to the specific causes of inequality – some point to technological change, others such as Feenstra and Hanson (1997, 1999) to the role of offshoring in boosting the demand for skilled labour, still others to regulation or corporate malfeasance. Nor is there consensus regarding the policies likely to ameliorate inequality. Many suggest minimising inequality by increasing educational attainment.
Globalisation and higher education: Different degrees of success | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
The British 1 Percent
This figure, via Paul Krugman , shows the income share of the top 1 percent in the United Kingdom. The broad pattern is very similar to what U.S. data shows. The figure suggests that the explanation of growing inequality over the past several decades cannot be U.S.-specific but must have broader applicability.
The Rise of the New Global Elite - Magazine - The Atlantic
F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today’s super-rich are also different from yesterday’s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity—and the countrymen they are leaving ever further behind. I f you happened to be watching NBC on the first Sunday morning in August last summer, you would have seen something curious. There, on the set of Meet the Press , the host, David Gregory, was interviewing a guest who made a forceful case that the U.S. economy had become “very distorted.”
Towards the end of each year I share some thoughts on what awaits in the year ahead. It is actually a lot easier to look years into the future than just a single year, as while we can readily discern broad trends, the major events in a year are usually unforeseeable, though they may express the longer-term directions. However as the pace of change accelerates, it is becoming a little easier to see the themes, if not the specifics, of the year ahead.
12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead | Trends in the Living Networks
Germany: A Bric, or just stuck in a hard place? - FT.com
It's quick, easy and you'll be able to read up to 8 articles per 30 days. Plus you can use these tools: News by Email Get the latest headlines and industry sector-specific briefings direct to your inbox.Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space NEW YORK – The outlook for the global economy in 2011 is, partly, for a persistence of the trends established in 2010.
Global Risk and Reward in 2011 - Nouriel Roubini - Project Syndicate
This article is by Rita McGrath , an associate professor of m anagement, at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Entrepreneurial Mindset (2000), MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves That Drive Exceptional Business Growth (2005), and Discovery Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunities (2009) . Yogi Berra is supposed to have once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Nonetheless, here are some trends I’m going to be watching in 2012, and my thoughts about how they may change the business landscape. Strategy and entrepreneurship will have ever-greater interdependence.
Five Big Trends in Business Innovation in 2012 - Forbes
The Ultimate Guide To Enterprise SEO: 25 Things To Know Before You Take The Plunge
Enterprise Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not rocket science. In fact, it is not even as faceted as many other sectors of SEO in which practitioners have to perform many more nuanced SEO tasks (and often by themselves). So why is Enterprise SEO so underserved and why do so few large organizations embrace it properly? Because Enterprise SEO is much more like Supply Chain Management than it is Marketing.We are living in a new world of risk. Globalization, shifting demographics, rapidly accelerating technological change, increased connectivity, economic uncertainty, a growing multiplicity of actors and shifting power structures combine to make operating in this world unprecedentedly complex and challenging for corporations, institutions and states alike. Uniquely placed to catalyse a response to this new landscape, the World Economic Forum is launching a platform to better understand, prepare for and respond to complex, interdependent risk.
Global Risks | World Economic Forum-Global Risks
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