Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen says companies shouldn’t base their strategy on the customer as much as on the job the customer needs the product for. When you hire a milkshake what do you expect it to do? Check out [See the full post…]

Leaders in Life Sciences engage in a panel discussion on the state of the industry in India and the practicalities of international business plans in the perspective of globalization. More info at: TieCONEast.org See also: TiEcon 2006 Podcasts

Howard Anderson speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson after his Keynote speech at TiECON East 2006 in Boston. Anderson says, “It would be nice to say that we always move to advance more technical, but China’s going there too. We’ve always [See the full post…]

Howard Anderson of the Yankee and Battery Ventures delivers an edgy and dynamic look at the future roles of India and China in the global economy of the not too distant future, and the history of global business culture in [See the full post…]

Shyno Chacko works with ASHOKA, a non-profit group seeking out and promoting Social Entrepreneurship. PodTech’s Michael Johnson talks with Chacko about her work with the group and the changes they’ve facilitated the world round. More info at: TieCONEast.org Ashoka.org See [See the full post…]

“Is the Internet going to displace broadcast media?” asked Josh Bernoff, VP and Principal Analyst with Forrester Research. Bernoff moderated a discussion about digital media convergence in which panelists from content and distribution companies discussed opportunities and challenges in the [See the full post…]

Hatim Tyabji, Executive Chairman of Bytemobile and Best Buy Board Member, finished out the opening keynote at TiECON 2006. In a speech peppered with inspirational advice for entrepreneurs, Tyabji spoke about building corporate culture in the new “flat world” of [See the full post…]

“Wireless is really an all-encompassing concept,” said Jon Auerbach, former Wall Street Journal technology reporter and currently GP at highland Capital Partners. Auerbach was one of the panelists on the “Emerging Trends in Wireless” session at TiECON East 2006. Abhi [See the full post…]

“In astronomy it turns out that amateur astronomers are finding comets and asteroids before NASA and all the science labs can because the data is being sent out to the community and they can search and look in a distributed [See the full post…]

S. Ramadorai says sustaining quality and employee competency is one of the big challenges in the industry, especially as the playing field evens out around the world. He is the CEO and Managing Director of the $2.25 billion software company [See the full post…]

“The flat world will challenge cherished beliefs,” said Frank Douglas, Executive Director of the newly formed MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation. In this podcast, you’ll hear Douglas’ keynote speech on the challenges and opportunities for biopharmacology in a flat world [See the full post…]

“There ain’t much learning in the second kick of a mule,” said Vice Provost of Harvard University and Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Howard Stevenson. His keynote speech on developing predictive intelligence opened the TiECON East [See the full post…]

You’ve heard on stock shows on TV and radio, “Do your due diligence.” That goes for the pros even more so. On this TiECON East panel experts like Chris Felstedt of the Merrill Lynch Hedge Fund Product Group, Dave Furneaux [See the full post…]

Apurv Bagri, Managing Director of the Metdist Group of companies and Chairman of TiE Global, opened the TiECON East 2006 conference in Boston with a talk on globalization and what it means in a flat world. To sum up his [See the full post…]

Boston, June 15-17, 2006: “Innovating in a Flat World” focuses on issues integral to the growth of private enterprises and non-profits. This year’s event takes place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. PodTech’s John Furrier chats with Sanjay Kadaveru [See the full post…]

At the Belle Chase Primary School in Plaquemines Parish, just across the river from New Orleans, Enterprise, Education, and Empathy were the keys to helping a shattered school district pull together. PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Terry Smithson, Intel’s Education [See the full post…]

In New Orleans, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Richard Whitmire, Education Op-ed writer for USA Today and Secretary of the Educational Writer’s Association. He talks about educational journalism, and the seeming lack of awareness in the US of slipping educational [See the full post…]

PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Carol Roberts, Asst. Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction for Plaquemines Parish School District, about rebuilding educational infrastructure in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. More info at: ppsb.org Related Stories: IntelWorldAhead

Intel’s Craig Barrett says K-12 schools in the U.S. must measure themselves against the world and not just against each other. The chairman of the world’s largest chip company spoke about improving America’s economic competitiveness before writers and journalists at [See the full post…]

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett took questions from education writers and journalists after his speech on ways to think about and improve U.S. schools. More info at: ewa.org Related Stories: IntelWorldAhead

PodTech’s Jason Lopez sat down with Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds to talk about Sun Microsystems, Apple and the mark of successful companies.

At JavaOne 2006, one challenge to attendees was to write real-time code using Java RTS to control the cars movement around 200 feet of slot car race track embedded with 200 sensors. By detecting whether or not the car was [See the full post…]

There’s been a lot of talk about method and tools at the JavaOne developers conference presentations so far, but very little about process. How does a successful development team actually get the job done? Managing workflow was the topic of [See the full post…]

In Part 4 of this podcast from the Sun Microsystems Session on the best Java innovations, Sun VP James Gosling held a race-track demo and awards ceremony for the winners of a slot car racing challenge. Contestants had to write [See the full post…]

“This is going to be the toy show; it’s all demos, all the time,” said James Gosling during his part of the Sun Microsystems session at the JavaOne developer’s conference. In part three of this podcast, Gosling hosted a series [See the full post…]