Tag Archives: innovation

03/17/20

When Innovation Kills Good Jobs

In case you have not noticed, there is a short term crisis that has necessitated the closing of many schools, a re-orientation toward distance learning, and a growth of innovation surrounding this changed condition.

Distance learning has been an ongoing thing for some time already and the use of technology in education is no spring chicken. [Some of the big college MBA programs are delivered exclusively through distance learning with limited to no degradation of the experience.]

One distance learning company has an outstanding call for 5,000 teachers to provide classes through its platform.

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02/22/13

Old Economy >>> New Economy Transformation — BASIC MARKETING

Big Red Car here.  The Boss was up early this morning.  He got an email from a pal asking about my post in regard to the Old Economy >>> New Economy transition — link — and the pal wanted to have a concrete example of how this would impact, say, marketing organization.

So here goes.

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12/13/12

Innovation — how it is supposed to work

Big Red Car here.

So The Boss is out having a coffee.  Early riser likes to have a coffee for a meeting early in the morning because when the coffee is over he can scoot if he wants.

So I hear him talking about this article in The Atlantic.  Read this article.  The author, Kathryn Hawkins, wrote a great article.  She writes some great stuff about innovation in the United States.  Very interesting stuff on a number of different levels.

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