In a previous post, I talked about mobile handphone being an integrated product as we traditionally see it. Personalization/Flexibility and Mobility are the two significant opposing forces playing their part in shaping the integrated Vs modular architectures. However, convergence of computing and enternatinment into handheld terminals or (most ubiquitous handphones) bring in a lot of software, content and service performance and [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Modular Mobile Phones
Posted in Futures, Management of Technology on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Personalized Unified Web Portal and/or Profiling Service
Posted in Futures, Just fun! on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am a regular and frequent seasoned user of tons of services from yahoo, MSN, google, wordpress, linkedin, facebook, flickr and many more persoanlized work palce services yet others which are not very common especially related to academics and research. I have to signup for an endless plethora of websites…have to login twenties of time per day for [...]
East Asian Miracle
Posted in Competitiveness, Technology Policy on January 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The 1993 World Bank Report titled on the subject and its intense criticism on epmirical data and explanations had remained at the centre of debate for a while in mid 1990s. Special attention remained on the government intervention versus free markets for forming industrial policies or sector specific regulation and controls. Where earlier criticsms had brought out [...]
National strategies for technology adoption in the industrial sector
Posted in Competitiveness, Technology Policy on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The subject paper of Sanjaya Lall (2001) was the background paper for UNDP’s Human Development Report 2001 and is the one which presents an excellent review and reference for hi-level technology policy development in developing countires. It builds mainly on data from his 2000 paper referenced below, but concretizes his previous theoretical contributions on technological capability and catching up [...]
Mobile Handsets Innovation
Posted in Innovation; Theory and Practice, Management of Technology on January 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If viewed from modularity theory (Clark and Baldwin, 2000) lens, typically, handphones can be viewed as integrated products. There is non-existent possibility and trend for upgrading memory, replacing display or changing its size, adding or dropping user desired features and likes. There are many trade-offs a user may have to make on features when buying a [...]
Posted in Competitiveness, Management of Technology on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You can read my two cents in this article run by CIOPakistan during Nov, 2008.
Outsource or Inhouse
November 21, 2008
What role does cost play in the decision to choose one strategy over the other?
Here’s the situation so far: there is a global economic crisis for which companies need to cut costs; the US elections are taking [...]
2009 conferences in Innovation, MoT, STI Policy, ICT Policy
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Conferences of my interest during 2009… Maybe for you too….I am targetting to submit to PICMET , Asialics and CPRSouth4. PICMET ; 2 abstracts accepted…full papers due…
EuroCPR, 29-31 March, 2009, Seville, Andalusia
IAMOT , April 5-9, 2009, Orlando Florida, USA,
Asialics , 6-7 July 2009, Hong Kong University of S&T, HongKong
PICMET, August 2-6, 2009, Portland, Oregon, [...]
