Yesterday BusinessWeek published eight top tech trends to follow in 2007. One of them the “touch wall” which was first introduced to the wide public in 2002 with the movie “Minority Report”. I really look forward to work with it!
In addition BusinessWeek also listed the tech companies to watch in 2007. It includes one Chinese company, two European companies and five American companies. My favourite company on the list the London based Last.FM. It gives you the opportunity to discover new music!
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Today I came a cross this article that elaborate on entrepreneurs who will probably going to shake up the Tech world within the next few years. Some familiar and unfamiliar faces are popping up in the list. It came to me that this research was limited to the USA, although it is highly likely that the next Tech generation once again will come from America. Since Europe and it’s innovation platform is still lagging behind and the emerging markets are still in the process of catching up. A more detailed report can be found here.
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Find below Infoworld’s top 10 IT moments in 2005!
- Wal-Mart, DoD Mandates RFID Compliance Jan. 1
- Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Buy Jan. 7
- Publication of “The World is Flat” April 5
- CardSystems Hack May 22
- Sun Opens Solaris June 14
- AMD Sues Intel June 28
- Another SOX Delay Sept. 21
- Massachusetts Votes for Open Documents Sept. 21
- Vapor Without the Ware Oct. 4
- The Arrival of SQL Server, Visual Studio 2005 Nov. 7
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Economist’s annual prizes recognise successful innovators in seven categories. The Economist recognises these talented people through our annual Innovation Awards, presented in seven fields: bioscience, computing and communications, energy and the environment, social and economic innovation, business-process innovation, consumer products, and a special “no boundaries” category. The awards were presented at a ceremony in London on November 14th by Bill Emmott, editor-in-chief of The Economist. And the winners were:
- Herbert Boyer, co-founder and director of Genentech, and Stanley Cohen, professor of genetics and medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, for developing recombinant DNA technology.
- Computing and communications: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, co-founders of Google for the commercialisation of search technology.
- Energy and the environment: Stanford Ovshinsky, president and chief scientist and technologist, Energy Conversion Devices, for developing the nickel-metal-hydride battery.
- Social and economic innovation: Victoria Hale, chairman and chief executive, Institute for OneWorld Health, for her work promoting the development of pharmaceuticals for the developing world.
- Business-process innovation: Alpheus Bingham, chairman, InnoCentive, for his work developing a web-based problem-solving community.
- Consumer product: the iPod team at Apple for the development of the iPod digital-music player.
- No boundaries: Fujio Masuoka, professor, Tohoku University for the invention of flash memory.
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As expected, London Business School (LBS) lead for the second consecutive year Financial Times’ ranking list of best European b-school. LBS is ranked top in both the full-time and Executive MBA programme. For the Dutchies among us, Erasmus University, Rotterdam ranked 7th in best European full-time MBA programme and 17th overall.
Not that I am planning to pursue a MBA challenge after graduating for my Master degree, in 1,5 years from now. *sigh*, that sounds really long, right? Although, as I noticed, according the last half year time really flies these days so 1,5 year becomes suddenly really short, isn’t? 
Over the long run I might consider doing a MBA, especially because it seems like a great investment to justify. Consider a tuition fee of £41.970,- (not including living expenses) in light of the average salary three years after graduation, as a LBS-er of $126.590,-. Even with today’s currency exchange rate it still looks good. -P Well, up till now, I still think I do not need a MBA for achieving my (ultimate career related) dreams. Maybe that will change in the future when having achieved these dreams…haha..Out for now!
The complete FT ranking can be found here.
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Business week published a survey on the year 2005! Adam Curry, is the only fellow Dutch man whom is selected among the best leaders of 2005.
Next to the best leaders, Business week selected the best ideas and best products for the year 2005, as well. Saidly, I haven’t more time to elaborate more on this survey. -P
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Published by Business Week, the ranking of world’s top 100 IT companies. By clicking on this link you can download the complete coverage in PDF format.
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For the past 12 years, Bain & Company, a firm of consultants, has asked companies around the world how much they use tools to improve the performance of their organisations, and how satisfied they are with them. Its latest analysis, out this week, shows that strategic planning, used by almost four out of every five companies, is currently the most popular (see table above).
Bain’s Darrell Rigby, founder of the survey, says managers are now particularly keen on anything that helps them get closer to their customers. Two-thirds say that “insufficient customer insight” is hurting their performance. Hence the steep rise in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - from seventh last time to second. Most of the top slots are filled by hardy perennials. Strategic planning has been top since 1996. The biggest change in the past decade is the rise of tools that rely heavily on the use of information technology. IT-intensive techniques such as CRM, supply-chain management and knowledge management are each now used by more than half of all corporations.
Since their excessive spending at the turn of the century, executives have focused on cutting costs. Now, says Mr Rigby, they see a limit to that process and are seeking other ways to deliver the value investors have built into their share prices.
Nor are managers losing faith in IT: 90% of Bain’s sample said they think IT can still create significant competitive advantages for them. Corporate IT budgets are slated to rise again this year. Who will determine where that money is to be spent–the general managers or the geeks? In a book published at the end of last year (“The New CIO Leader”, Harvard Business School Press), two Gartner employees argue that CIOs must pull their socks up if they are to be fully involved in this process. They need to stop talking techno babble among themselves and start behaving like leaders. Otherwise, say the authors, CIO is condemned forever to stand for ? Career is Over?.
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