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 [...]
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Modular Mobile Phones
Posted in Futures, Management of Technology on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Standardization in a networked world…
Posted in Competitiveness, Management of Technology on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What are the strategic options and business models that are going to work? Prof. Rebecca Henderson at MIT talks about ”Dynamics of the strategic space” in this video lecture.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/272/
I found it pretty interesting and useful to develop my understanding about linking firm strategy to standardization in the ICT domains. The relavant slides are also avialable from her Technology [...]
Some Management Theoretical Frameworks and Models
Posted in Management of Technology on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While reviewing Cooper’s Stage Gate model I came across this website called Proven Models, a digital publishing house. Seems to be a useful introductory level reference for theories and models in management and business related subjects. The design is quite useful according to types of users. If you want specific author, or model you may [...]
2008 Conferences in Innovation, MOT, S&T Policy, ICT Policy
Posted in Competitiveness, Management of Technology, Science and Technology, Technology Policy on March 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
These are some of the confernces in which i am interested. I will keep on updating and adding to the following, as I find time.
STI Indicators for Policy. Addressing New Demands from Stakeholders on May 28-30, 2008, at Oslo Norway by PRIME hosted by Oslo University College
EuroCPR 2008: Innovations in communications:The role of users, industry, and policy, [...]
At MITWorld; Emerging Technologies,The Innovator’s View
Posted in Management of Technology on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“MIT World™ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World’s video index contains more than 500 videos.” Here is the subject video of the panel discussion moderated by Pudmashree, CTO of Motorola. Enjoy listening when you want to have some easy time and casual learning [...]
Some thoughts on Systems and Chaos
Posted in Just fun!, Management of Technology on February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Trying to understand the universe, nature, life and the nature of life we would everyday come across these two words! System and Chaos. System is something which has a predictable, repeatable (not always) behaviour. This can be analyzed part by part and each part may behave differently (but still be studied and noted). The function [...]
Managing New Industry Creation
Posted in Management of Technology on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Managing New Industry Creation
Global Knowledge Formation and Entrepreneurship in High Technology
Thomas P. Murtha, Stefanie Ann Lenway, and Jeffrey A. Hart
2001
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