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Videos you can watch anywhere: Experts on a variety of topics
21 December 2011 | Editor
PARC Forum is our invited expert speaker series -- and public platform -- for exchanging insights and building relationships with leading experts in a variety of areas. An amazing variety of speakers including Nobel Prize laureates, CEOs, industry-leading thought leaders and other personalities have spoken in the series since 1977. You can watch recent videos on our website at www.parc.com/forum and on our Slideshare channel (in HTML5 and mobile viewable on iPads, iPhones, Android devices).
The wastewaters of innovation (literally!)
30 November 2011 | Leon Wong
Billing itself as the world’s largest annual water quality exhibition, the 84th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC) draws 20,000 people from all over the world and has almost 1000 exhibitors. Because the show provided an opportunity to meet with a wide spectrum of wastewater players -- from utilities, corporations, manufacturer reps, and consultants to investors, analysts, and non-profits -- I wanted to share some of what I heard while showcasing our hydrodynamic separation (HDS) technology platform. Especially because I think the comments reflect the nature of innovation in the wastewater industry today.
To tweak or not to tweak… that is (not!) the question
15 November 2011 | Editor
Forbes has some interesting commentary on Steve Jobs and whether Malcolm Gladwell (yes, him again) is wrong in calling Steve a "tweaker" and therefore less of a visionary or "true" inventor. Obviously, we believe there's more to all of this. Given our experiences, here are some of our thoughts...
PARC Innovations Update (2011 #6)
9 November 2011 | Editor
[e-newsletter archive ~October-December 2011] Things, The Economist video, and a bit of a sneak peek
The second economy
24 October 2011 | W. Brian Arthur, guest contributor
Digitization is creating a second economy that’s vast, automatic, and invisible – thereby bringing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution. Deep changes like this are not unusual. Every so often – every 60 years or so – a body of technology comes along and over several decades, quietly, almost unnoticeably, transforms the economy: it brings new social classes to the fore and creates a different world for business. Can such a transformation – deep and slow and silent – be happening today?
PARC Innovations Update (2011 #5)
22 September 2011 | Editor
[e-newsletter archive ~August-September 2011] expert videos, Mobilize, LEDs, opportunity discovery
The commoditization of cleantech…and the role of innovation
15 September 2011 | Leon Wong
Many cleantech businesses -- despite their capabilities, technical advantages, and bankability -- are being forced into one price war after another, causing margins to erode, valuations to drop, and in some cases, businesses to close. An offering might be patented and have a unique design, but it may be a commodity. This is especially the case in cleantech, where the final end product is typically electricity, clean water, fuel, or light: a commodity. Commoditization happens. The key is discerning early warnings, and tackling commoditization through strategic innovation.
What we’re reading
22 August 2011 | Editor
[August/ summer 2011] People are our greatest asset. And PARC is often asked for expertise about its various domains -- spanning physical, computational, social, and life sciences -- as well as a "trend-setter's" perspective on what's next. But what are WE paying attention to or learning about? Well, here's a "flash-sampling" of what our folks happen to be reading just now -- books, magazines, blogs -- and why...
From lean startups to open innovation success
28 July 2011 | Lawrence Lee
A startup is any organization of any size dedicated to creating something new under conditions of uncertainty; the challenge is how to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a path to a successful, sustainable business. I'm not going to restate all of the points in Eric Ries' PARC Forum talk -- you can watch it here -- instead, I want to share how we’ve been practicing similar concepts at PARC and compare and contrast some specific Lean Startup methods with our practices in Open Innovation. One key difference for example is in the strategy of MVP.
PARC Innovations Update (2011 #4)
26 July 2011 | Editor
[e-newsletter archive ~May-June-July 2011] on moving from idea to execution
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