L'innovation chez Google

There's a reason we talk about 70/20/10, where 70% of our resources are spent in our core business and 10% end up in unrelated projects, like energy or whatever. [The other 20% goes to projects adjacent to the core business.] Actually, it's a struggle to get it to even be 10%. People might think we're wasting money or whatever. But that's where all our new stuff has come from.

In our first founders' letter in 2004, we talked about the risk profile with respect to doing new innovations. We said we would do some things that would have only a 10% chance of making $1 billion over the long term. But we don't put many people on those things; 90% work on everything else. So that's not a big risk. And if you look at where many of our new features come from, it's from these riskier investments.

Larry Page, Google (Fortune, Mai 2008)

Leadership

The little book of leadership

Many of you want to be leaders, to make a difference. But you might be spending too much time self-marketing and not enough time researching, building bridges taking an interest in someone... In true leadership situations, listening comes before arm-waving.

About Geeks

To nontechnologists, IT isn't just a different discipline; it's a foreign culture.

Understanding Geeks

HBS - IT Governance

Article d'HBS sur le joyeux monde des technologies de l'information et sa governance.

Le rôle de l'art

Article intéressant sur le rôle de l'art et de la culture générale en éducation et plus particulièrement au MBA.

One key objective is to help business school students to become experts in both innovative marketing techniques and sustainable, original product development.

Winning

When winning is everything... (HBS article)

Gaming & Leadership

Hundreds of thousands of players — sometimes millions —
interact daily in highly complex virtual environments.
These players self-organize, develop skills, and settle into
various roles. Leaders emerge that are capable of recruiting,
organizing, motivating, and directing large groups of players
toward a common goal. And decisions are made quickly,
with ample, but imperfect, information. Sound familiar?

New leadership VS Gamers !

(full report)

Twitter

Idée intéressante lancée dans ce post sur l'utilité de Twitter, un outil très simple permettant seulement de décrire son activité immédiate. Une activité ou un questionnement ou une réflexion..., d'où la possibilité de "penser" à plusieurs.

Combien ça prend ?

Zappos offre 1000$ à ses employés pour quitter. Combien ça prendrait pour me faire quitter mon travail ?

La suite de l'article initial.

Projet Six Sigma chez CSX

En réduisant la quantité d'essence consommée par les locomotives, ils ont sauvé plus de 28 millions en 3 ans.

IT in Health Care

J'aimerais être aussi productif que ce blog qui parle des défis IT dans le monde de la santé.

La réforme

À l'encontre de la réforme scolaire québécoise ?

“The motivation behind this research was to examine a very widespread belief about the teaching of mathematics, namely that teaching students multiple concrete examples will benefit learning,” said Jennifer A. Kaminski, a research scientist at the Center for Cognitive Science at Ohio State. “It was really just that, a belief.”

Myers-Briggs

My type: Active INTJ

Moderate towards Introversion (vs Extraversion).
Clear towards Intuition (vs Sensing).
Moderate towards Thinking (vs Feeling).
Moderate towards Judging (vs Perceiving).

INTJs are typically innovators in their fields. They trust their inner vision of how things fit together and relentlessly move their ideas to action. They would rather spend time on what they believe is important that on what's popular with others.

INTJs are independent and individualistic, and others may see them as stubborn at times. They move ahead with or without the support of others, and they have a single-minded concentration.

They like using logic to solve complex, challenging problems. Routine, everyday tasks bore them. They analyze and attempt to fit pieces together into a coherent whole.

Although INTJs are usually organized and follow through, they may sometimes ignore details that do not fit their vision of the future. If these details are important, their ideas may not work as well as they would like.

INTJs are likely to be most satisfied in a work environment that values their insights and ideas and lets them work independently. People can count on them for their vision and innovative solutions to problems in their field.