/tags/innovation/ Recent content in Innovation on Because Tech Rocks Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 09 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/innovation-cultures/ Sun, 09 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/innovation-cultures/ Last year I did a review of Marty Cagan’s “Inspired” book. The book provided a characterization of innovation cultures and how the best product companies in the world differ from the rest. He characterized innovation cultures as open minded, with a high willingness to experiment, empowerment and business- and customer-savy teams. These all are very easy to like characteristics, yet they seem to be really hard to implement in a way that really yields great results. /blog/evans-on-ai/ Thu, 06 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/evans-on-ai/ What comes into your mind when thinking about artificial intelligence and machine learning? Assosiations of flying saucers? Or Google, Facebook and China ruling the world with their (evil?) empires of data? Or the conversations with family and friends that have read in the newspaper that AI will now take over and replace all of our jobs? These are all common things you stumble upon in Ai discussions, but none of them are very helpful to understand the essence of what machine learning today really is and how it can help us. /blog/inside-apple/ Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/inside-apple/ I stumbled upon this book written by Ken Kocienda recently. And it seemed like a great chance to understand a bit more about Apple’s secret sauce, especially as Apple is notoriously secretive abouts its internals. So I decided to buy the book (despite the fact that the paperback version has one of the ugliest book covers in history - which is kind of funny as one would expect exactly the opposite from something that talks about Apple). /blog/how-to-fly-a-horse/ Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/how-to-fly-a-horse/ The book and why you should read it Before diving into the content of this book, let me tell you one thing: This is one of the rare books that I would recommend anyone to read at full length, just because it’s so well written and contains so many nice anectodes that it is impossible to get across the whole message in a summary. So make sure to get you own copy at Amazon. /blog/innovation/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/innovation/ I had the chance to meet Bill O’Connor in San Francisco recently. He did a highly inspiratinoal talk about Innovation (of which you can find an a bit less inspiring version also on YouTube). What is innovation? So Bill’s talk was all about innovation. But what is innovation really? He comes up with the following definition: Innovation is “something new or different, successfully brought into the world, creating significant impact”