http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com innovation and management consulting Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:44:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   "Frost & Sullivan recognizes ChaCha Search with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation. ChaCha was identified for its successful discovery of the key requirements of mobile search users as well as for its offer of a unique solution that provides the most enhanced user ... http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/chachas-mobile-social-search-wins-an-innovation-award/   "35 percent of software projects started in 2006 can be categorized as successful, meaning they were completed on time, on budget and met user requirements. This is a marked improvement from the first, groundbreaking report in 1994 that labeled only 16.2 percent of projects as successful." Read David Rubinstein's ... http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/innovators-dilemmas-the-problem-with-budgeting-3/   "A leading forecaster of advertising spending has reduced — again — his prediction for growth this year, joining other analysts who have cut their estimates because of the troubled American economy and difficulties among media like newspapers and radio." Read Stuart Eliott's article, "Ad Spending Forecast Lowered Again," on ... http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/keeping-up-with-my-social-networks-3/   "Insiders at Facebook are selling stock in the social-networking giant (...) the prices for Facebook shares in these transactions reflect a total valuation far lower than $15 billion (...) Social networks have struggled to generate revenue through advertising at the rates originally expected. Google, which places ads on News ... http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/keeping-up-with-my-social-networks-2/   "The web is returning to its social roots. But is it getting ahead of itself once again? (...) Web 2.0 with its emphasis on collaboration and communication has become overwhelmingly social (...) But although tens of millions around the world use social networks like Facebook and MySpace, the future ... http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/keeping-up-with-my-social-networks-1/   "Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista, was first delayed for years, then launched to dreadful reviews and is now selling more slowly than expected, even after big price cuts (...) [ The] "Mojave Experiment" - a focus group in San Francisco of 140 volunteers who had not actually tried ... http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/microsofts-vista-and-the-mohave-experiment/   "[Many would] hardly consider the budgeting process a healthy exercise. It's often painful, prolonged and takes on a life of its own -- separate from the real work of your company." Read James Champy's article, "Five ways to improve your budgeting process," on CIO News.   Related posts:  the ... http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/innovators-dilemmas-the-budgeting-problem-2/   "Cuil's technology drills into the actual content of a page (...) results will be presented in a more magazine-like format instead of just a vertical stack of Web links. Cuil's results are displayed with more photos spread horizontally across the page and include sidebars that can be clicked on ... http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/new-search-engine-cuil/   "One of Enthiosys' original Innovation Games, Buy a Feature brings together participants who are given limited amounts of 'virtual' currency, which they can then use to buy product features they deem most valuable." "Bringing the game to an online forum and tying it to Borland's Management Solutions lets product ... http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/crowdsourcing-serious-gaming-and-prediction-markets/   Conservative research processes are mostly influenced by quality management practices which help mitigate risks by avoiding errors. This can be self-defeating when preventing mistakes at all cost happens to severely constrain a project’s chances of success. Most serial innovators understand the need for taking chances, “trial and ... http://consultaglobal.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/about-innovators-mistakes/