JP Rangaswami’s post on platforms is worth reading. Rather than try to summarize it myself, I’ll just excerpt a few highlights: His definition of platforms: something that is a foundation, an enabling environment, upon which others can build things, make things something that exists for a specific purpose (or set of purposes), and which invests [...]
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Platforms, Trust and Open Cloud Computing
Posted in Innovation, Networks on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Transitive Novelty”
Posted in Innovation, tagged change, Innovation on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Woke up today thinking about novelty. I had just been dreaming about some novelty store and it got me thinking… Why is it that people care about news from some organizations and not from others? One reason, I’d suggest, relates to an idea I’ll call “transitive novelty.” The idea is pretty simple. I have some [...]
