About: parallel entrepreneur
current affiliations | aptus collaborative | business innovation factory | hackable city | providence geeks | center for health services innovation | summit neighborhood association
interested in:
- applying open source and hackability to social contexts and environments (cities and neighborhoods, for example)
- technology-enabled innovation
- virtual organizations
Blog Posts
Offshoring disruptive? The proof is in.
--A year ago I asked the question: Is Offshoring a Disruptive Technology, in Clay Christensen's definition? Well, it appears the answer is Yes. TPI...
Innovation Esperanto
--Last week I presented our Business Innovation Factory work on the Primary Care Practice of the Future to the Art and Science of Services conference...
Balancing Innovation and Six Sigma
--John Parkinson, a guest columnist at CIO Insight, writes an interesting article on the conflict between organizations that have internalized Six Si...
Indifference Kills
--Scott Williams, Chief Creative Officer for Starwood, has a television-trained eye for a story. But what he has learned at Starwood, a collection of...
Surgery with a warranty?
--Geisinger, a hospital system in central Pennsylvania, has been running a unique experiment for a year, and just presented their first results to th...
Slingbox + Wireless + Camera = Disruption
--A local TV station in San Francisco that has replaced their expensive remote cameras - the ones that monitor highway traffic and beam it back to th...
The Vanguard of Global Work
--Continuing on the theme of outsourcing being a sign of a deeper shift towards a global distributed talent force, Mike Corbett from the Internationa...
Harnessing the energy of youth !
--Frans Johansson has a brief blog entry about PlayPumps, which harnesses the energy of kids at play to create and store potable water:Clean water. I...
What Lies at the Bottom of the Pyramid?
--At BIF-2 this week, I was giving a lot of thought to how innovation gets really exciting for me at the bottom of the pyramid, when applied to creat...
Missing the Point...
--At a mind-expanding two day conference on innovation, I had a long and spirited conversation with Frans Johansson, author of The Medici Effect, abo...
Bookmarks:
Amazon EC2 / SimpleDB or other scalable cloud computing platform
Good thread from LI on cloud computing resources. Some new companies I hadn't heard of.
New formula drops R.I. grad rate - News- msnbc.com
Whoa, truth is revealed on RI grad rates when we include those kids that quit before senior year. 7 out of 10...
R.I. no longer in Top 10 for taxes, study finds - Providence Business News
Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance ranks all states for tax burden, finds RI in 12th spot.
State analysis: R.I. 11th in nation for tax burden - Providence Business News
Interesting policy study by Gary Sasse at Dept of Revenue, showing RI highly dependent on Property Tax, but in the middle on other tax burdens.
Providence's private equity powerhouse - May. 19, 2008
Jonathan Nelson gets a 3 pager in Fortune, which points out that he has never been interviewed by a local newspaper !
SparkPeople: a weight loss community
interesting vertical community around weight loss and nutrition.
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