Technology ReviewShould you purchase the Amazon Echo? I bought one and I’m very glad I did. Perhaps you’d like to meet my Echo and learn what she does for our family all day earlier than deciding if this straightforward-to-use personal assistant is a good alternative for you.

DevOps – an interactive strategy to product management, improvement, deployment and operation – has an important function to play in serving to tools distributors and telecom operators meet 5G necessities. In light of this, Ericsson has labored carefully with open source communities equivalent to OPNFV and educational partners to outline DevOps as it applies to subsequent-era telecom networks, figuring out the specific steps of the DevOps cycle which can be most related for 5G infrastructure. This work has resulted within the creation of a DevOps reference pipeline for a 5G enterprise slice, as well as processes and advanced options supporting dynamically software program-defined network …

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penitus cogitare, cito agere – think deeply, act quickly

75 years ago, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) helped kickstart innovation in Silicon Valley with a series of grants to Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford’s Engineering school. Terman used the money to set up the Stanford Electronics Research Lab. He staffed it with his lab managers who built the first electronic warfare and electronic intelligence systems in WWII. This lab pushed the envelope of basic and applied research in microwave devices and electronics and within a few short years made Stanford a leader in these fields. The lab became ground zero for the wave of Stanford’s entrepreneurship and innovation in the 1950’s and 60’s and helped form what would later be called Silicon Valley.

75 years later, ONR just laid down a bet again, one we believe will be equally transformative. They’re the first sponsors of the new Gordian Knot

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If I ask you to think of an elephant do you see an elephant in your head when you close your eyes?

I don’t. Regardless of how descriptive the imagery, story or text I can’t create any pictures in my head at all. 2% of people can’t do this either. This inability to visualize is called aphantasia.

I never knew this absence of mental imagery was even a thing until my daughter pointed out that she and I were missing something my wife and other daughter had. Ask us to visualize a rainbow or a sunset and we just see nothing. We can’t create pictures in our head of objects, people, places or experiences. Where others can visualize these things, we can’t. Not for people, memories, or images past or future. When people say visualize this in your mind’s eye I just thought that was a turn of phrase. It

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Best Smart Home DevicesWill it even be a finest sensible cellphone gadget in any respect? As expertise progresses, good security cameras can easily be custom-made to tune out false triggers. You’ll even be able to prepare for the authorities to be alerted in the occasion of a real breach of safety. We’ve scoured dozens of advertisements from Amazon, Best Purchase, Costco, House Depot, Lowe’s, Target, Walmart, and more to find the most effective deals on sensible house products that do nicely in our scores. Black Friday and Cyber Monday could bring larger discounts, however there are fairly good deals to be had now.

Kwikset Kevo is one other revamped sensible lock from a few years again. Its principal differentiator, or probably the most ‘flashy’ one, is the unlock mechanism. Together with your Kevo smartphone app working (even within the background), the smart lock will detect you and open with a easy contact. There …

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It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.  (Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Chief Operating Officer of a company – but in this case the company has 3 million employees (~1.4 million active duty, 750,000 civilians, ~800,000 in the National Guard and Reserves.)

She came to the Gordian Knot Center to discuss our unique approach to national security and innovation, and how our curriculum trains the next generation of innovators. The Deputy also heard from us how the Department can better partner with and leverage the U.S. innovation ecosystem to solve national security challenges.

Our goal for the Secretary’s visit was to give her a snapshot of how we’re supporting the Department of Defense priority of building an innovation workforce. We emphasized the critical distinction between a technical STEM-trained

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An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank website.

I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 company offsite watching them grapple with disruption. This 100+-year-old company has seven major product divisions, each with hundreds of products. Currently a market leader, they’re watching a new and relentless competitor with more money, more people and more advanced technology appear seemingly out of nowhere, attempting to grab customers and gain market share.

This company was so serious about dealing with this threat (they described it as “existential to their survival”) that they had mobilized the entire corporation to come up with new solutions. This wasn’t a small undertaking, because the threats were coming from multiple areas in multiple dimensions; How do they embrace new technologies? How do they convert existing manufacturing plants (and their workforce) for a completely new set of technologies?

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My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement repeatable innovation processes inside a company. 

Here’s their introduction to the key concepts inside the playbook.


Over 75% of executives report that innovation is a top three priority at their companies. However, only 20% of executives indicate that their companies are ready to innovate at scale. This is the challenge for contemporary organizations: How to develop a world-class ecosystem that can drive repeatable innovation at scale.

The playbook describes the three pillars of corporate innovation: Innovation Portfolios, Innovation Programs and a Culture of Innovation. Under each pillar, the playbook describes three questions that leaders and teams can

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This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks.

In the past, headlines about the Pentagon failing its financial audit again would never have caught my attention. But having been in the middle of this conversation when I served on one of the Defense Department’s advisory boards, I understand why the Pentagon can’t count. The experience taught me a valuable lesson about innovation and imagination in large organizations, and the difference visionary leadership – or the lack of it – can make.

With audit costs approaching a billion dollars a year the Pentagon had an opportunity to lead in modernizing auditing. Instead it opted for more of the same.

Auditing the Department of Defense
By law, the Department of Defense has to provide Congress and the public with an assessment of where it spends its money and to provide transparency of its operations. A financial audit counts what

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Technology ReviewOur editors decide the 50 companies that greatest combine modern know-how with an efficient enterprise model.

Most media retailers, ourselves included, are likely to assume the reply is simple: not an entire lot right now. Fake information , election interference , taking advantage of knowledge collection, and an ever-tightening grip on, effectively, all sides of our day by day lives are, it can be argued, very massive issues for Big Tech. They’re eroding public and political trust, and that will ultimately trigger a revolt. Silicon Valley, the story goes, is lining itself up for a really big fall certainly. Fortunately, he believes, Canadian culture may supply the correct steerage for the expertise’s growth. I’m glad we’re having the dialogue about AI right here in a rustic the place we’ve got a charter of rights and freedoms; the place we’ve got a good moral and ethical body to consider these points,” …

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Cool New GadgetsIf all the predictions of the twenty-first century had been right then by now we ought to be driving flying automobiles and we needs to be having robots do our family tasks. Designed to be a private coach that’s constructed into your wrist, the Polar FT60 Heart Rate Monitor is clearly helping a number of well being and fitness-acutely aware people take full control of their wellness wants. The Polar is engineered to sense varied health and fitness parameters similar to calories burned and the fat burn percentage to maintain you nicely-informed of your progress. It also comes with the STAR Coaching program in addition to a unique Sensible Coaching know-how that further improves the way in which you make the most of the digital info on the Polar that can assist you customize your fitness and common wellness program.

Devices technology performs an vital role in our daily lives, …

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