rethinkchronicles » health information technology (IT) http://www.rethinkchronicles.com A guide through the rapidly developing Rethink Revolution Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:08:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Silicon Valley may become Graphene Gulch http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/04/23/silicon-valley-may-become-graphene-gulch/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/04/23/silicon-valley-may-become-graphene-gulch/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:37:47 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=938 Some day you may see a workman replacing a location sign designating Silicon Valley. In its place the new sign could read Nanotube Valley, or maybe Graphene Gulch. That is improbable at best, but could be more accurate. Researchers are anticipating the day when it will be impossible to further miniaturize [...]

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Silicon Valley may become Graphene Gulch

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/04/23/silicon-valley-may-become-graphene-gulch/feed/ 0 Innovate or miss the recovery http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/02/24/innovate-or-miss-the-recovery/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/02/24/innovate-or-miss-the-recovery/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:44:17 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=875 Innovation is garnering attention in the business media, but like crop storage in a grainery it has no value until somebody buys it. The companies are numerous that have come up with great ideas only to see somebody else turn them into business breakthroughs. Equally numerous are companies that are best described as arid innovation deserts. [...]

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Innovate or miss the recovery

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/02/24/innovate-or-miss-the-recovery/feed/ 0 Clues to future corporate success http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/01/05/clues-to-future-corporate-success/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/01/05/clues-to-future-corporate-success/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:06:10 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=848 The first imperative is to deliberately, consciously wean the organization from excessive control, the methods most executives learned and practice in their profession. The late Peter Drucker explained, “Because the modern organization consists of knowledge specialists, it has to be an organization of equals, of colleagues and associates. No knowledge ranks higher than another; each [...]

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Clues to future corporate success

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/01/05/clues-to-future-corporate-success/feed/ 0 Accurate forecast for 2010 http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/01/01/accurate-forecast-for-2010/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/01/01/accurate-forecast-for-2010/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:03:37 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=840 Forler Massnick

It is time for the annual rite of attempts to forecast what will happen in the new year. In his book Rethinking the Corporation, Forler Massnick quotes Winston Churchill’s complaint, “The future is one damn thing after another.” Peter Drucker put an academic spin on it, “”Forecasting is not a respectable human activity and [...]

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Accurate forecast for 2010

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2010/01/01/accurate-forecast-for-2010/feed/ 0 Checklist for science and technology advances http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/29/checklist-for-science-and-technology-advances/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/29/checklist-for-science-and-technology-advances/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:57:43 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=832 Ray Kurzweil

Executives anxious about bridging the gap between business as usual and exponential advances in science and technology have been given a checklist for their attention. These are the technologies recommended by the experts: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Medicine and Human-Machine Interfaces, Networks & Computing Systems, and Energy & Environmental Systems.

These [...]

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Checklist for science and technology advances

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/29/checklist-for-science-and-technology-advances/feed/ 0 CEO angst revealed http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/18/ceo-angst-revealed/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/18/ceo-angst-revealed/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:55:08 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=825 Chief Executive Magazine asked a cross-section of of CEOs to write about their outlook for the coming year. Editor J.P. Donlon said he was struck by their twin concerns about rising government spending and increasing taxes and regulations, as well as the effect both would have on what they regard as a fragile economic recovery.

Donlon observed, [...]

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CEO angst revealed

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/18/ceo-angst-revealed/feed/ 0 Exciting glimpse of the future http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/15/810/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/15/810/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:40:50 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=810 Futurist and scientist/inventor Ray Kurzweil welcomes the new year with predictions of how technology will change humanity by 2020. Solar power on steroids, longer lives, the chance to get rid of obesity once and for all, and portable computing devices that start becoming part of your body rather than being held in your hand are among [...]

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Exciting glimpse of the future

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/15/810/feed/ 0 Marketers face a new conundrum http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/09/marketers-face-a-new-conundrum/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/09/marketers-face-a-new-conundrum/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:38:56 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=795 Google Goggles

While marketing executives continue to struggle with what to do about Web 2.0, they face a possible new conundrum just announced by Google. An industry observer made this comment, “This is certainly a rebuke to anyone who believes that Google is through innovating.”

The comment was prompted by Google’s announcement of these developments: 1) the [...]

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Marketers face a new conundrum

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There is a new word lurking in the arcane language of electronics that may describe a breakthrough in the science of artificial intelligence. It is “memristor”.The more familiar elements of electronic circuits are resistors, capacitors and inductors. An electronics engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, Leon Chua, was convinced there was a [...]

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Artificial intelligence breakthrough

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/07/13/artificial-intelligence-breakthrough/feed/ 0 Marketers grapple with Web 2.0 http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/07/08/marketers-grapple-with-web-20/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/07/08/marketers-grapple-with-web-20/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:35:31 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=659 Tim Berners-Lee

Is Web 2.0 a distinctly different application of Internet technology or, as Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee described it a “piece of jargon”? This is a serious question for marketing executives grappling with issues about where to spend advertising and promotion dollars in puzzling economic times.Initially the Web was used as a way of publishing [...]

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Marketers grapple with Web 2.0

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