Day three of my policy of writing about each paper/book I read under three categories (in escalating importance a) highlight interesting theory/facts b) relate the reading to other (academic) reading, and c) how it helps me move forward on my Thesis, (Handing Over M-phatically August/September ’17) (aka "THOMAS"). Today's article (and yes, having... Continue Reading →
Innovation in complex systems? Oh, FFS…. And CCS
By FFS I mean “Full-Flight Simulators”. What am I on about? So, innovation in mass produced commodity products (aka “widgets”) is, cough, relatively straight-forward. Lots of opportunities for iteration, incremental learning, process and product innovation, tacit knowledge creation/management. Shakeouts after the establishment of a ‘dominant design’, followed by incremental shifts that squeeze a leetle more... Continue Reading →
Star Trek, innovation theory and “dominant designs”
Article discussed: Rebecca M. Henderson and Kim B. Clark (1990) “Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms” Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 9-30. There's an episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation called I, Borg, which is useful for thinking about innovation theory and 'dominant... Continue Reading →
All those Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model agony aunt letters in one handy place
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda, and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’ - technological innovation (or lack thereof) in response to societal problems (car safety, local air pollution, climate change). Here’s a... Continue Reading →
Questions I ask myself about “Responsible Research”
What gets researched (and by extension, what doesn't) Who does the research? With what resources (and what strings attached – what's the accountability) How? When the results are “in,” how are they presented? When? Where? To who? Who is “allowed” to dispute the methodology, how? What is then DONE with the results? How do they... Continue Reading →
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