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Friday, March 17. 2006

"Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive [to student] Don't touch it! [back to class] But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them."
(Professor Frink,1970)

640 kB ought to be enough for anybody.
(Bill Gates, 1981 ... i would deny it today, too)

"If you're looking for the next big thing, stop looking. There's no such thing as the next big thing."
Nicholas Donofrio, IBM EVP of Innovation and Technology,2006
(as interviewed here)

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, The IT Business at 12:46 | Comment (1) | Trackback (1)

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I´ve postet an article a few days ago with some famous quotes regarding some of the great false estimations and an interview of an EVP of IBM. Not much later, i found a comment in my weblog, that made a case for this EVP and put the comments in a differen

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The article you reference misses Nick Donofrio's main insight. He has not given up on the future -- to be a successful innovator one needs to manage in a larger context than just product -- or the next big thing. As Donofrio points out ...when it comes to innovation, there is a need to think collaboratively and in a multifaceted manner, as this determines who wins and who loses....innovation today is more about services, process, business models or cultural innovation than just product innovation. I don't interpret these comments as lacking vision or giving up on innovation. In fact I applaud IBM for its recognition that the nature of innovation is changing itself. The next wave of exciting and transformational products and services (of which there will be many) will emerge from new business innovation models that are multidisciplinary, open, collaborative, networked and adaptive. I think that's what Donofrio was talking about and is working on. Hope this helps.

#1 Egils Milbergs (Homepage) on 2006-03-18 05:21 (Reply)

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