Want Innovation? Elevate Design and Engineering
For too long, companies have treated design and engineering as distinct disciplines. One executive explains why it’s time for that to change.
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What Becoming Steve Jobs Taught Me About Management
Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli's Becoming Steve Jobs is an intimate portrait of Steve Jobs’ evolution. It is also, perhaps accidentally, one of the most insightful and instructive books on management I have ever read....
KeenON: Five Conversations with Walter Isaacson
The central message of "The Innovators" is that collaboration is king. Partnerships, Walter Isaacson explains, are the at the core of every great enterprise—from Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage’s invention of the computer to Larry...
KeenON: “Innovators” Author Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson, the biographer of great men like Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Steve Jobs, has now turned to the history of the digital revolution. But rather than the story of genius, Isaacson’s "The Innovators:...
Jaron Lanier on Facebook and the Creepy Possibilities for Virtual Reality
When Facebook announced last week that it had agreed to acquire Oculus VR, “the leader in virtual reality technology,” for $2 billion, techies and journalists everywhere wondered: What does Jaron Lanier think of this? Lanier,...
Kirkpatrick, Levy, Markoff: Chroniclers of Technology in Conversation
Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick joined longtime tech journalists Steven Levy and John Markoff onstage at the Computer History museum in Mountain View, CA, last week for a wide-ranging discussion about their decades covering the industry. Levy...
Is Apple’s Blossom Fading?
Apple is arguably the Brangelina of companies: It’s not young anymore, and there isn’t much new there. But our fascination and fixation endure. Widely regarded as a bellwether for the global economy and a perennial...
Slumping PC Sales Signal Rise of Mobile Computing
Consumers may be going mobile more rapidly than just about anyone in the computing industry could have predicted. Two new reports show sales of desktop and laptop machines dropping sharply in the first quarter of...
