I have taken a couple of courses on Udacity and OCW and really enjoyed them. The current crop of MOOCs like EdX, Udacity, Coursera are version 1.0 in my opinion. Their model mimics class room training. A teacher talks about…
I have taken a couple of courses on Udacity and OCW and really enjoyed them. The current crop of MOOCs like EdX, Udacity, Coursera are version 1.0 in my opinion. Their model mimics class room training. A teacher talks about…
This keynote video by Tim O’Reilly is worth watching. I am a big fan of Tim and strongly believe that we need to “work on stuff that matters”. My notes from this video. You will get a feel for what…
Some snippets from Nasscom Surge 2012. C K Ranganathan of CavinKare, during the keynote was one of the best parts of NASSCOM Surge 2012. Here are some snippets from his speech. On The Importance of Product Differentiation If you do…
This is an amazing infographic and has some very interesting pointers: products that lowered prices, approached their markets in unheard-of ways, even created new markets — and changed the world. See how they did it in this rich infographic, and…
The higher up I go when working with a good organization, the more often I hear conversations about the competition, what they will and won’t do, what they will and won’t defend. It is not enough to know your customer.…
Many of the interesting challenges in computer science, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology entail the construction of complex systems. As these systems transcend human comprehension, will we continue to design them or will we increasingly evolve them? As we design for…
This is probably one of the best descriptions of a product creation, I have read in a while. It is the story behind the story (I took the liberty of breaking the final summary paragraph into three). You can read…
What is technology intelligence? Do you have it? Do you need it? Why? I wrote down a few observations and thoughts. Technology Intelligence is the ability to look at developments in technology and use them as enablers. You can map…
I have been giving this talk for a while and have been adding to the slides. I just found out that there is whole book on where good ideas come from. I just got the book and before I read…
You hear a lot about Cloud Computing. What is this Cloud thingy anyway? From the various definition of cloud computing we will just pick a couple. Computing in which services and storage are provided over the Internet (or “cloud”) –…
