Harvard pointers on global innovators. Corporate R&D labs used to be the key for companies to create competitive advantage. But now innovation is moving across the globe. That’s why Harvard Business School professor, Alan MacCormack, believes that a real source of competitive advantage is skill in managing innovation partnerships. Innovation is increasingly driven through collaborative teams due to product complexity,…
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Unit pricing iPhone app. The ACCC recommended that all supermarkets provide unit pricing for goods that would allow consumers to compare the price per unit for, say, toilet paper, to the price per 4, 6, 8 or 12 pack. I’m not sure what happened to that policy but in the meantime an iPhone app has appeared that does just that.…
On deliberate practice. I am reading Richard Sennett's (2008) The Craftsman London; Allen Lane. It is a brilliant attempt to make explicit the implicit or tacit "knowledge" which underpins craft skill; and it fails. I've read a couple of reviews, such as Roger Scruton's in the Sunday Times and Fiona MacCarthy's in the Guardian. They are both respectful and enthusiastic,…
On a potentially amazing resource. I don't usually simply plug other sites, but one cannot but admire the chutzpah of this site;"Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real…
Funding model to end school inequality. The Deputy Prime Minister wants to extend the model of funding private schools on a socio-economic basis to public schools in a move to confront disadvantage across both sectors. The proposal, expected to be addressed at the next Council of Australian Governments meeting, would involve extending the contentious SES funding model designed by the…
$60m school software plan faces costly delays. Theage.com.au - Fri May 23, 08:23 pm GMT [News4Sites - Australia Education]
Phoenix Spacecraft Reports Good Health After Mars Landing. A NASA spacecraft has sent pictures showing itself in good condition after making the first successful landing in a polar region of Mars. The images from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander also provided a glimpse of the flat valley floor expected to have water-rich permafrost within reach of the lander's robotic arm. The…
Govt backflips on regional funding decision. The Federal Government has reversed a $250 million Budget decision to cut funding to Regional Partnerships programs. [ABC News: Breaking Stories]
Who owns your comments?. Last week, in the rush of news and new features in NewsJunk.com, I got an email from Daniel Ha, the guy who develops Disqus, the commenting software we use at Scripting News. I say "we" because it very literally is a we thing. When you place a comment on my blog, you're adding something to the…