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.