The document discusses how operational innovation and innovators are often underappreciated compared to consumer technologies. It provides several examples of impactful innovations in mobile computing, analytics, global delivery, and sustainability that receive little attention from the mainstream media and analysts. These include UPS's mobile technology deployment, Union Pacific's use of sensors and algorithms, and supply chain sustainability initiatives. The author encourages operational executives to publicly discuss their logistics and technology work to better recognize these innovations.
TiE Hyderabad is launching a Cloud & Mobility Entrepreneurship Initiative to address opportunities in cloud computing and mobility. There are significant opportunities to provide affordable computing access to billions of people worldwide through these technologies. TiE Hyderabad will inspire and educate entrepreneurs about business opportunities in cloud and mobility, connect them with investors, and establish support groups and programs to promote related ventures. The initiative aims to provide universal computing access from any device by 2020.
This document discusses the evolution of distributed systems and middleware technologies in light of emerging trends like mobile computing, cloud computing, and ubiquitous computing. It argues that while the deployment environments are changing, the core requirements of enterprise applications like messaging, transactions, security, and reliability remain the same. Therefore, middleware is still needed but must be flexible enough to support different environments, components, and application migration. Open source technologies may help provide a common set of reusable pieces to build new middleware solutions that can adapt to changing needs.
Is your business NBN ready? – Developing a Digital Business Strategy: VELG Na...Vanguard Visions
The Australian Government is investing $43 billion over 8 years in fibre, wireless and satellite broadband infrastructure as part of the National Broadband Network (NBN). There is strong evidence that the NBN will be a key enabler of many economic, social, technological and environmental developments (Bowles, 2011). This new digital economy will have an impact on all Australian industries and will require every Australian to improve their information and communication technology (ICT) skills. Participants will take away tools and processes to develop a digital business strategy which will enable them to capitalise on the training and business opportunities being made possible through the roll out of the NBN.
Next Generation Innovation Platform for Research and Economic Development in ...Ed Dodds
Eric Boyd, Internet2, Over the past 25 years, the modern Internet evolved in labs and dorms at R&E-enabled campuses, leading to the creation of large and successful companies such as Cisco, Mosaic, Facebook, Google, and Box. The pervasive bandwidth-rich environment found on campuses incubated technology development and enabled the creation of large scale early adopter communities that evolved into the Internet-centered commercial markets that exist today. The R&E Community has opportunity to once again serve as the laboratory for Internet innovation, and Internet2 is investing heavily in the resources needed by the R&E community to begin that new era of innovation. By recreating the bandwidth advantage historically held by R&E institutions and opening the network software stack to innovation, Internet2 seeks to create a new bandwidth-rich, programmable network for science, scholarship and service. This talk will cover Internet2's investment in the Network Development and Deployment Initiative (NDDI) in partnership with Indiana University and the Clean Slate Program at Stanford University. It will give details on the new opportunities for network innovation at R&E campuses enabled by the NDDI substrate, such as the recently launched Open Science, Services, and Scholarship Exchange (OS3E). It will also talk about how this creates an environment to support both scientific research and network research in labs and dorm rooms across the country and around the globe.
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will contribute to Australia being among the world’s leading digital economies through improved productivity gains, global competitiveness and social well-being (National Digital Economy Strategy, 2011).
In order to ensure your business takes advantage of this improved connectivity it will need to make sure that is ‘NBN ready’.
This interactive session presented by Allison Miller of Vanguard Visions Consulting will provide an overview of:
What the NBN is and why it is important to your business
How your businesses can prepare itself to make the most of the NBN
This document discusses key characteristics of modern innovation. It notes that innovation is now distributed and diverse across geographic centers and models. Innovation ecosystems are dynamic, complex, and multidirectional. Corporate R&D has become global and strategic. There is an increasing importance placed on intangible capital like knowledge over tangible assets. This has led to a rise in value-intensive services and knowledge-based innovation. Globalization is an important force as infrastructure, talent, and markets become more interconnected worldwide.
Pit and the Pendulum: Managing the Accelerating Pace of Technological Change InnoTech
This document discusses managing the accelerating pace of technology change. It provides background on the challenge of continuous innovation. It outlines frameworks for classifying different types of innovations from incremental to disruptive. Finally, it proposes strategies for adopting innovations, such as piloting new technologies, focusing on needed versus speculative innovations, and planning for self-support when vendors leave legacy technologies behind. The strategies are tailored to the type of innovation from incremental improvements to game-changing disruptions.
TiE Hyderabad is launching a Cloud & Mobility Entrepreneurship Initiative to address opportunities in cloud computing and mobility. There are significant opportunities to provide affordable computing access to billions of people worldwide through these technologies. TiE Hyderabad will inspire and educate entrepreneurs about business opportunities in cloud and mobility, connect them with investors, and establish support groups and programs to promote related ventures. The initiative aims to provide universal computing access from any device by 2020.
This document discusses the evolution of distributed systems and middleware technologies in light of emerging trends like mobile computing, cloud computing, and ubiquitous computing. It argues that while the deployment environments are changing, the core requirements of enterprise applications like messaging, transactions, security, and reliability remain the same. Therefore, middleware is still needed but must be flexible enough to support different environments, components, and application migration. Open source technologies may help provide a common set of reusable pieces to build new middleware solutions that can adapt to changing needs.
Is your business NBN ready? – Developing a Digital Business Strategy: VELG Na...Vanguard Visions
The Australian Government is investing $43 billion over 8 years in fibre, wireless and satellite broadband infrastructure as part of the National Broadband Network (NBN). There is strong evidence that the NBN will be a key enabler of many economic, social, technological and environmental developments (Bowles, 2011). This new digital economy will have an impact on all Australian industries and will require every Australian to improve their information and communication technology (ICT) skills. Participants will take away tools and processes to develop a digital business strategy which will enable them to capitalise on the training and business opportunities being made possible through the roll out of the NBN.
Next Generation Innovation Platform for Research and Economic Development in ...Ed Dodds
Eric Boyd, Internet2, Over the past 25 years, the modern Internet evolved in labs and dorms at R&E-enabled campuses, leading to the creation of large and successful companies such as Cisco, Mosaic, Facebook, Google, and Box. The pervasive bandwidth-rich environment found on campuses incubated technology development and enabled the creation of large scale early adopter communities that evolved into the Internet-centered commercial markets that exist today. The R&E Community has opportunity to once again serve as the laboratory for Internet innovation, and Internet2 is investing heavily in the resources needed by the R&E community to begin that new era of innovation. By recreating the bandwidth advantage historically held by R&E institutions and opening the network software stack to innovation, Internet2 seeks to create a new bandwidth-rich, programmable network for science, scholarship and service. This talk will cover Internet2's investment in the Network Development and Deployment Initiative (NDDI) in partnership with Indiana University and the Clean Slate Program at Stanford University. It will give details on the new opportunities for network innovation at R&E campuses enabled by the NDDI substrate, such as the recently launched Open Science, Services, and Scholarship Exchange (OS3E). It will also talk about how this creates an environment to support both scientific research and network research in labs and dorm rooms across the country and around the globe.
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will contribute to Australia being among the world’s leading digital economies through improved productivity gains, global competitiveness and social well-being (National Digital Economy Strategy, 2011).
In order to ensure your business takes advantage of this improved connectivity it will need to make sure that is ‘NBN ready’.
This interactive session presented by Allison Miller of Vanguard Visions Consulting will provide an overview of:
What the NBN is and why it is important to your business
How your businesses can prepare itself to make the most of the NBN
This document discusses key characteristics of modern innovation. It notes that innovation is now distributed and diverse across geographic centers and models. Innovation ecosystems are dynamic, complex, and multidirectional. Corporate R&D has become global and strategic. There is an increasing importance placed on intangible capital like knowledge over tangible assets. This has led to a rise in value-intensive services and knowledge-based innovation. Globalization is an important force as infrastructure, talent, and markets become more interconnected worldwide.
Pit and the Pendulum: Managing the Accelerating Pace of Technological Change InnoTech
This document discusses managing the accelerating pace of technology change. It provides background on the challenge of continuous innovation. It outlines frameworks for classifying different types of innovations from incremental to disruptive. Finally, it proposes strategies for adopting innovations, such as piloting new technologies, focusing on needed versus speculative innovations, and planning for self-support when vendors leave legacy technologies behind. The strategies are tailored to the type of innovation from incremental improvements to game-changing disruptions.
This document summarizes a presentation by Vinnie Mirchandani on the rise of the "technology elite." Mirchandani discusses 12 attributes that define the technology elite, including being elegant, exponential, efficient, mobile, maverick, malleable, physical, paranoid, pragmatic, speedy, social, and sustainable. He provides examples for each attribute, such as Virgin America demonstrating elegance and Google demonstrating sustainability through green energy initiatives. Overall, the presentation outlines the key characteristics of innovative technology leaders and companies that are shaping the industry.
This document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) and provides context around why IoT is receiving attention now. The key points are:
1) IoT is now possible because of improvements in low-power silicon, radio technologies, protocols, and other factors that enable seamless connectivity between devices.
2) The computer industry is seeking new markets as traditional markets like PCs are saturating, and IoT provides a way to utilize existing production capacity.
3) While IoT covers a wide variety of applications, some common underlying technologies could include using small, ubiquitous operating systems like Unix and network protocols like IP. However, each IoT application may have highly divergent requirements.
4)
submitted to IBM-execs as Open Innovation jam-topic. Following presentation to Oregon EconDevCouncil (OEDC). Resulted in OpenTEch incubator to leverage the OpenSourceDevLab (OSDL) setup around Linus Torvald and "the kernel" to bring industrial-strength development to forge "carrier-grade" linux... &more :-)
This slide was presented for the fulfillment of the course Bachelor in Information Management, Affiliated to TU, Kathmandu Nepal at Thames International College, Old-Baneshwor, KTM, Nepal.
This document provides an agenda for a presentation on cloud computing and big data. The presentation will include:
- An introduction of the presenter and a review of handouts on related topics.
- A discussion of cloud computing, including definitions of cloud computing, the history and types of clouds, implications, and the future of cloud computing.
- A break in the presentation.
- A discussion of big data, including the scale of big data, the importance of big data, how it differs from traditional data, how to deal with big data, and the future of big data.
- A wrap-up of the presentation and Q&A session.
Apple was co-founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. It released the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s. In 1980, Apple held its IPO and became a publicly traded company. Throughout the 1980s, Apple released important products like the Lisa, Macintosh and iPod. However, Jobs was ousted from the company in 1985. He went on to found NeXT and later acquire Pixar. In 1997, Apple purchased NeXT and Jobs returned to Apple as CEO. Since then, Apple has launched revolutionary products like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad that have defined new consumer technology categories. Through continuous innovation and strategic acquisitions,
Cloud computing is the latest evolution of how businesses utilize information technology resources. It follows a typical pattern of innovation, early adoption, product development, widespread adoption, and eventual commoditization. Cloud computing provides online, elastic, utility-based computing resources on a large scale similar to how electricity is provided. While it promises great power and agility, cloud computing also brings new challenges around management and unanticipated costs that businesses will need to navigate.
This document discusses the concept of "curated computing" and its key aspects:
1. A "curator" would simplify technology and business models to design standardized applications and appliances with consistent interfaces.
2. The curator would decide which technologies enter their roadmap and release schedule to create a unified ecosystem.
3. Examples of potential curators mentioned are Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and Android/Google.
4. Curated computing is proposed as a new 5th generation of computing that focuses on 24/7 connectivity through application-based appliances and peer-to-peer cloud applications.
How to multiply your technology contribution by developing business acumenAnurag Gupta
The talk discusses technology and business tends and a framework and strategy to identify, evaluate and decide which are the most fruitful problems to work on. This enables an engineer’s technology contributions to be multiplied manifold.
Cloud Security - Cloud Arena - Tim WilloughbyTim Willoughby
Tim explains technology to various groups in an understandable way. He lives in Naas, Ireland and works as a translator between technical and business teams, using web services and cloud computing. Security, standardization, and control are ongoing challenges for moving organizations to the cloud.
Consumerized and Social IT; XaaS "everything-as-a-service" ; New IT service acquisition and consumption models, Lean IT, cloud (bunker) models; charge-back; App Internet ; context-aware mobile devices that interact with each other and our enterprises; users are shifting ; Big Data
The document discusses several technological game changers for 2011-2012:
1. The role of the CIO will change to focus more on business technology and innovation rather than just IT support.
2. Consumerization of IT will continue as mobility and cloud applications become more prevalent. Knowledge workers will be "always on" using a variety of personal and enterprise applications.
3. Strategies will shift from technology-focused to business process-focused, recognizing that technology alone does not drive business value.
The document argues these changes will significantly impact how individuals and enterprises use and manage technology over the next few years.
The document discusses ING's journey towards architecting for 400 agile squads. It summarizes ING's transformation from a traditional IT organization in 2009 to one organized into 400 business-aligned development squads by 2015. This included transitioning to agile methods, continuous delivery, hiring and developing software engineering talent, and establishing platform engineering teams to provide shared services and tools to other squads. The role of traditional architecture is changing in this new environment where engineering communities and expertise determine standards.
The document discusses emerging trends in technology including everything becoming connected through web applications and real-time data synchronization between devices replacing the traditional client-server model. It also summarizes that the goal of technology should be to just work, scale, and be transparent. The rest of the document discusses how data, compute resources, and networking can be viewed as economic goods and services that are delivered over time, with datacenters serving as hubs for this transportation of digital information and computing power.
The document provides a technology forecast for the mobile industry. It begins with defining the industry and its key segments. It then analyzes the industry's history, growth, market dynamics, trends, and strategies. Technological challenges are identified for major trends like apps, interfaces, displays, energy monitoring, processing speed, and keyboards. The analysis includes a future wheel, relevance tree, structural analysis, cross-impact analysis, roadmap, and wild cards to forecast short and long-term technologies. Key points of uncertainty are the development of new battery, display, and storage technologies.
An overview of the main elements of social manufacturing, including open hardware, digital fabrication, and crowdfunding, and the potential they have to enable the proliferation of the emerging new generation of connected hardware devices. I gave this presentation at the International Conference of Industrial Innovation at Taiwan NCCU on 15 March 2013.
This document summarizes a presentation by Vinnie Mirchandani on the rise of the "technology elite." Mirchandani discusses 12 attributes that define the technology elite, including being elegant, exponential, efficient, mobile, maverick, malleable, physical, paranoid, pragmatic, speedy, social, and sustainable. He provides examples for each attribute, such as Virgin America demonstrating elegance and Google demonstrating sustainability through green energy initiatives. Overall, the presentation outlines the key characteristics of innovative technology leaders and companies that are shaping the industry.
This document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) and provides context around why IoT is receiving attention now. The key points are:
1) IoT is now possible because of improvements in low-power silicon, radio technologies, protocols, and other factors that enable seamless connectivity between devices.
2) The computer industry is seeking new markets as traditional markets like PCs are saturating, and IoT provides a way to utilize existing production capacity.
3) While IoT covers a wide variety of applications, some common underlying technologies could include using small, ubiquitous operating systems like Unix and network protocols like IP. However, each IoT application may have highly divergent requirements.
4)
submitted to IBM-execs as Open Innovation jam-topic. Following presentation to Oregon EconDevCouncil (OEDC). Resulted in OpenTEch incubator to leverage the OpenSourceDevLab (OSDL) setup around Linus Torvald and "the kernel" to bring industrial-strength development to forge "carrier-grade" linux... &more :-)
This slide was presented for the fulfillment of the course Bachelor in Information Management, Affiliated to TU, Kathmandu Nepal at Thames International College, Old-Baneshwor, KTM, Nepal.
This document provides an agenda for a presentation on cloud computing and big data. The presentation will include:
- An introduction of the presenter and a review of handouts on related topics.
- A discussion of cloud computing, including definitions of cloud computing, the history and types of clouds, implications, and the future of cloud computing.
- A break in the presentation.
- A discussion of big data, including the scale of big data, the importance of big data, how it differs from traditional data, how to deal with big data, and the future of big data.
- A wrap-up of the presentation and Q&A session.
Apple was co-founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. It released the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s. In 1980, Apple held its IPO and became a publicly traded company. Throughout the 1980s, Apple released important products like the Lisa, Macintosh and iPod. However, Jobs was ousted from the company in 1985. He went on to found NeXT and later acquire Pixar. In 1997, Apple purchased NeXT and Jobs returned to Apple as CEO. Since then, Apple has launched revolutionary products like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad that have defined new consumer technology categories. Through continuous innovation and strategic acquisitions,
Cloud computing is the latest evolution of how businesses utilize information technology resources. It follows a typical pattern of innovation, early adoption, product development, widespread adoption, and eventual commoditization. Cloud computing provides online, elastic, utility-based computing resources on a large scale similar to how electricity is provided. While it promises great power and agility, cloud computing also brings new challenges around management and unanticipated costs that businesses will need to navigate.
This document discusses the concept of "curated computing" and its key aspects:
1. A "curator" would simplify technology and business models to design standardized applications and appliances with consistent interfaces.
2. The curator would decide which technologies enter their roadmap and release schedule to create a unified ecosystem.
3. Examples of potential curators mentioned are Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and Android/Google.
4. Curated computing is proposed as a new 5th generation of computing that focuses on 24/7 connectivity through application-based appliances and peer-to-peer cloud applications.
How to multiply your technology contribution by developing business acumenAnurag Gupta
The talk discusses technology and business tends and a framework and strategy to identify, evaluate and decide which are the most fruitful problems to work on. This enables an engineer’s technology contributions to be multiplied manifold.
Cloud Security - Cloud Arena - Tim WilloughbyTim Willoughby
Tim explains technology to various groups in an understandable way. He lives in Naas, Ireland and works as a translator between technical and business teams, using web services and cloud computing. Security, standardization, and control are ongoing challenges for moving organizations to the cloud.
Consumerized and Social IT; XaaS "everything-as-a-service" ; New IT service acquisition and consumption models, Lean IT, cloud (bunker) models; charge-back; App Internet ; context-aware mobile devices that interact with each other and our enterprises; users are shifting ; Big Data
The document discusses several technological game changers for 2011-2012:
1. The role of the CIO will change to focus more on business technology and innovation rather than just IT support.
2. Consumerization of IT will continue as mobility and cloud applications become more prevalent. Knowledge workers will be "always on" using a variety of personal and enterprise applications.
3. Strategies will shift from technology-focused to business process-focused, recognizing that technology alone does not drive business value.
The document argues these changes will significantly impact how individuals and enterprises use and manage technology over the next few years.
The document discusses ING's journey towards architecting for 400 agile squads. It summarizes ING's transformation from a traditional IT organization in 2009 to one organized into 400 business-aligned development squads by 2015. This included transitioning to agile methods, continuous delivery, hiring and developing software engineering talent, and establishing platform engineering teams to provide shared services and tools to other squads. The role of traditional architecture is changing in this new environment where engineering communities and expertise determine standards.
The document discusses emerging trends in technology including everything becoming connected through web applications and real-time data synchronization between devices replacing the traditional client-server model. It also summarizes that the goal of technology should be to just work, scale, and be transparent. The rest of the document discusses how data, compute resources, and networking can be viewed as economic goods and services that are delivered over time, with datacenters serving as hubs for this transportation of digital information and computing power.
The document provides a technology forecast for the mobile industry. It begins with defining the industry and its key segments. It then analyzes the industry's history, growth, market dynamics, trends, and strategies. Technological challenges are identified for major trends like apps, interfaces, displays, energy monitoring, processing speed, and keyboards. The analysis includes a future wheel, relevance tree, structural analysis, cross-impact analysis, roadmap, and wild cards to forecast short and long-term technologies. Key points of uncertainty are the development of new battery, display, and storage technologies.
An overview of the main elements of social manufacturing, including open hardware, digital fabrication, and crowdfunding, and the potential they have to enable the proliferation of the emerging new generation of connected hardware devices. I gave this presentation at the International Conference of Industrial Innovation at Taiwan NCCU on 15 March 2013.
1. My heroes have always been
operational folks
Today’s true innovators
Vinnie Mirchandani
www.florence20.typepad.com
2. We are living in a New
Renaissance
My innovation blog has
cataloged 2,500 entries across
40 categories in last 5 years
• Infotech
• Biotech
• Cleantech
• Healthtech
• Nanotech
It celebrates
• New algorithms
• New medicine
• New energy
3. Innovation is becoming more
science, less art
My books have:
• 40 detailed case studies
• Wide range of sources
(1,200 end notes)
They showcase innovation
everywhere:
• Unfamiliar places (e.g.
Estonia)
• Unpopular processes (e.g.
Maintenance)
• Unglamorous industries (e.g.
City government)
4. But, recognition of innovators is
uneven
700 followers (2009)
6,000 today
5.7 million (2009)
22.8 million today
5. Operational executives and
innovation underappreciated
“The CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) will spend more on
IT than the CIO ”
“Golden age of design: Things 'just work‘”
“Workday IPO Shows Investor Confidence in Business
Cloud”
“The consumerization of IT- The next-generation CIO”
“Big Data Was A Data Play, Now It's A Developer Play”
6. Mobile Computing – what gets
attention
• Endless stream of
devices
• The apps
ecosystems
• Massive telco
advertising
7. Mobile Computing – UPS DIAD
• 5th generation, first
introduced in 1990
• Has allowed UPS
to scale massively
and efficiently
• UPS also largest
buyer of mobile
minutes
• Could have
launched its own
“smartphone” way
before Apple!
8. Mobile Computing – Tesco in
S.Korea
• Homeplus virtual
store in subway
• Descartes Route
Planner allows for
“on the fly” flexibility
in same day delivery
• Also shows how far
ahead some mobile
networks are
compared to US
9. Analytics – what gets attention
• NoSQL
• Storage exploding
• SAP/Oracle - new
screaming frontier
• “Big Data” – as in
2012 US elections
10. Analytics – Union Pacific
• 20 million
temperature
readings a day using
trackside infrared
sensors
• Algorithms allow
within 5 minutes to
slow/stop suspect
trains
• With ultrasound
imaging, predictive
wheel maintenance
11. Analytics – Mondelez (Kraft)
• Thousands of
merchandisers used VRU
for “honor based” time
and mileage reporting
• Descartes and GPS
technology – over 4 billion
data points last year -
now provides visibility
• Triangulation of GPS
and payroll data allows for
finer ABC customer
analysis, workload
modeling, labor savings
12. Global Delivery – what gets
attention
• Outsourcing
beyond India
• Manufacturing
beyond China
• Trickle-up
innovation
• Balance of Trade
13. Global Delivery – Boeing 787
• Highly innovative
plane – composites,
passenger comforts
• Spurred by Airbus
cross-country
supplier success
• Dreamlifter –
modified 747 – large
components from
Japan/Italy
• Cross supply-chain
testing
14. Global Delivery – The New “Silk
Road”
• Chongqing in W.
China to Duisberg,
Germany
• “Southern” route via
Kazakhstan, Russia,
Belarus, and Poland.
• Less than half time
of ocean shipments,
much cheaper than
air
• Next: high-speed rail
15. Global Delivery – Maersk EEE
class ships
• 18,000 20 foot
containers (v. 500
container ships half
a century ago)
• 50% less CO2,
35% less fuel per
container compared
to today’s Asia-
Europe
benchmarks
16. Social Enterprise – what gets
attention
• Social media
• Sentiment
analysis/Marketing
analytics
• “Systems of
engagement”
• Self-promoting
Social “Mavens”
17. Social Enterprise – Toyota Friend
• Moving social from people to product
• Private social network of EVs, dealers, owners, with
Salesforce Chatter
18. Social Enterprise – Descartes
Global Logistics Network
• 63,000 parties in
160 countries
• Connected to 50
other networks
• Seed for
Descartes
Community (Cloud)
• Art Mesher =
“federated networks’
in 90s
20. BMI – what about?
“Shipping and handling” costs
a non-factor for consumers
Prime Decade of Amazon supply
chain innovation like “postal
injections”
Evolving to digital products
Same-Day Delivery?
Changed from back office
overhead to revenue
opportunity
Home Descartes’ Reservations and
Delivery Route Planner
Charge more for “premium”
delivery hours
Customers like more choice
22. Agility – what about?
“Out-Delled” Dell’s Build to
Build to Cash received
“Constant “Out-P&Ged” P&G’s Build to
Course Demand Forecast
Correction” Foxconn, Fedex, others =
agile supply chain
Supply chain of 2 PCs a
Iceland second, 2 printers a second,
and more
Volcano
Instant buy of charter
Japan capacity to S. Europe
Tsunami airports. Instant command
center for tsunami
24. Sustainability – what about?
Wind for many DCs, Solar
Every for corporate campus,
renewable Geothermal, biomass, high-
form of altitude wind
energy PUE, location analysis for
DCs
SEC focus on reporting of
“conflict minerals”
Audit trail of mineral
Tantalum sourcing/refining path
Capacitors
Opportunities for others
around “rare earths”
25. Sustainability – what about?
Wind for many DCs, Solar
Every for corporate campus,
renewable Geothermal, biomass, high-
form of altitude wind
energy PUE, location analysis for
DCs
SEC focus on reporting of
“conflict minerals”
Audit trail of mineral
Tantalum sourcing/refining path
Capacitors
Opportunities for others
around “rare earths”
26. Ok to toot your own horn
• MSM more interested in consumer
and social tech stories
• Industry analysts mostly want to
write about technology products, not
complex projects
• Your PR is more comfortable with
product and financial news
• You have to find your own friendly
outlets
• Don’t fret too much about
“competitive advantage”
• Sharing spurs even more innovation
27. Encourage execs to publicly
talk logistics and technology
• Amazon CEO annual shareholder letter
• Union Pacific to Fortune: “we are an infotech company”
• HP supply chain presentation to Wall Street
• Apple’s face to non-consumers even under Steve Jobs
• UPS Global TV campaign
28. Your turn to shine
Next-gen logistics/supply chain innovation stories should
be even more impressive:
• Global energy/manufacturing epicenter moving towards
US
• Post-Sandy reconstruction projects
• Retail/groceries going through radical changes
• China infrastructure inspiring many other countries
• More veterans in our workforce