The Top 10 tech trends for 2012. Bendable interfaces will let you zoom in, zoom out and scroll around a page by twisting your phone or tablet. Mashable founder Pete Cashmore predicts which trends we'll see more of next yearLed by Facebook, more social networks will offer automated sharing of users' Web activityCompanies such as Apple may use Siri-like voice control to replace the TV remoteNokia and Samsung may release phones with bendable displays in 2012 Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about tech news and digital culture.
He writes regular columns about social media and tech for CNN.com. (CNN) -- From the continuing rise of tablet devices to the daily-deals craze and the return of the Internet IPO, 2011 has been a transformative year for technology. The pace of change has become blisteringly fast, with traditional industries -- bookstores, video-rental chains, newspapers -- crumbling more quickly than we could have imagined. Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable.com.
Fundamentals of technology roadmapping. Creating an R&D Strategy. Executive Summary — This note by Gary P. Pisano provides a framework for designing an R&D strategy. It starts with the simple notion that a strategy is a system approach to solving a problem. An R&D strategy is defined a coherent set of interrelated choices across decision concerning: organizational architecture, processes, people, and project portfolios. To illustrate the framework, we use examples of three pharmaceutical companies and examine how their different R&D strategies were rooted in different assumptions about the core driver of R&D performance. This suggests that the very first question to be answered in strategy development is: What's our shared understanding of the root cause of the problem we are trying to solve? A good strategy provides consistency, coherence, and alignment. Technology risk, technological risk, risk management.
Technology Roadmap. The Technology Roadmap, an initiative of the Center for Economic Growth, is an online resource that highlights the technical assets in Tech Valley, a 19 county region in upstate New York. It provides a informal network and hub to connect to these assets and a gateway to learn more about regional technology and related service organizations. Specifically, the Roadmap enables technology stakeholders to: communicate strengths and areas of interest learn about each other, make connections and generate ideas identify potential business, collaboration and commercialization partners uncover unexpected ways that regional resources can be connected to create mutual benefit The Roadmap also enables people across all levels and functions to identify opportunities for their organizations and themselves.
This creates a network much broader and deeper than most, because of its accessibility and efficiency in helping users identify opportunities of interest. The Larger Program Back To Top.