The New Technology Elite (ePub)

Preface ix Acknowledgments xxi Part I The Convergence of Technology Production and Consumption Chapter 1 The New Monday Morning Quarterback 3 Case Study: UPS--That's Technology "Amore" 15 Chapter 2 The "Industrialization" of Technology 25 Case Study: HP--The Quest for a "10 Out of 10" Supply Chain 32 Chapter 3 From Amazon to Zipcar: No Industry Untouched 39 Case Study: Roosevelt--Innovation Island 49 Chapter 4 Australia to Zanzibar: No Country for Old Products 57 Case Study: Estonia's "Tiigrihupe"--Tiger Leap 66 Chapter 5 Convergence, Crossover, and Beyond 71 Guest Columns: Crossover Executive Perspectives 84 Perspective 1: Tony Scott (CIO, Microsoft) 84 Perspective 2: Vijay Ravindran (Chief Digital Officer, The Washington Post Co.) 86 Part II Key Attributes for the New Technology Elite: Three Es, Three Ms, Three Ps, and Three Ss Chapter 6 Elegant: In a World of Flashing 12s 93 Case Study: Virgin America--Redefining Elegance in Flying 103 Chapter 7 Exponential: Leveraging Ecosystems 111 Case Study: RIM's Evolving Ecosystem 119 Chapter 8 Efficient: Amid Massive Technology Waste 123 Case Study: Facebook's Hyperefficient Data Center 133 Chapter 9 Mobile: If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Xiamen 139 Case Study: The Boeing 787 and HCL Technologies 149 Chapter 10 Maverick: No Rules. Just Right. 155 Case Study: Apple--A Thousand "Nos" and Ten Gutsy "Yeses" 163 Chapter 11 Malleable: Business Model Innovation 173 Case Study: Valence Health 186 Chapter 12 Physical: Why Test Driving Is Still Important Even in a Digital World 193 Case Study: Taubman Shopping Centers 205 Chapter 13 Paranoid: But Not Paralyzed 211 Case Study: Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform 220 Chapter 14 Pragmatic: When Attorneys Influence Technology Even More than Engineers 225 Guest Column: Legal Considerations in Technology Product Launches--Benjamin Kern 233 Chapter 15 Speedy: In a New Era of Perishability 241 Case Study: Corning--The Gorilla Glass Rocket Ride 248 Chapter 16 Social: Amid Chatty Humans and

VINNIE MIRCHANDANI has been called "The King of Wow" for his keen eye for technology-enabled innovation. His blog, New Florence. New Renaissance, has cataloged 2,500 posts of innovative products, projects, and people in work, life, and play. His last book, The New Polymath (Wiley), was widely praised as an "innovation firehose." He is President of Deal Architect, a technology advisory firm. In prior roles, he was an analyst at Gartner, Inc., a leading technology research firm, and a global consultant at PwC, the advisory firm. He has keynoted at many business and technology conferences and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial Times, and other executive and technology publications.

Dieses eBook können Sie uneingeschränkt auf allen Geräten der tolino Familie lesen. Zum Lesen auf sonstigen eReadern und am PC benötigen Sie eine Adobe ID.