Charles Kane, President of One Laptop Per Child, says their business model is more like academia than social enterprise. Yet with only 30 staff, 1.5 million laptops have already reached the developing world. Education is what underpins the success of a nation, he…
Steve Street, Senior IT Architect for UK & Ireland New Business, Integrated Technology Delivery, IBM Global Services, explains why the financial meltdown, which demonstrates the limitations of a purely financial model, will motivate a move towards multiple sources of value.…
Dr Mark Thompson, University Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at Cambridge Judge Business School, explains why the UK Government would benefit from the introduction of an open IT procurement process, supported by open standards and open source models. This model would create…
Professor Peter Williamson, Honorary Professor of International Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, believes that in 2009, for the first time, it will be the emerging economies who will be providing 100% of the world's economic growth. Their ability, in…
In 1972, Polaroid launched the SX-70, the first fully integrated instant camera and film system, hailed by Fortune magazine as one of the greatest industrial inventions of the time.
In achieving this amazing innovation, which made the cover of Life magazine, Polaroid…
