Vinnie Mirchandani’s The New Polymath is a riveting read. It’s SuperFreakonomics for us technophiles. Because, for better or worse, The New Polymath (who can be thought of as a modern Leonardo da Vinci) must also be an IT guru … as it is information technology that is paving the way for a new generation of polymaths that have access to unprecedented levels of information across disciplines. Rather than tell you that this fresh and inviting (Benjamin Fried, CIO Google) book is filled with incredible examples of passionate entrepreneurs (Marc Benioff, CEO salesforce.com), that I am inspired by …
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May 10th, 2010 | Posted in Book Review, Technology
Paul Patterson’s Beyond the Beaker, a book on How to Achieve Successful Market Adoption for Emerging Technologies, is a book that belongs on every innovator’s bookshelf. Whereas there are a lots of books on how to innovate, and even a fair number on how to take your product to market, there are very few that overview all of the relevant issues that need to be addressed and managed, fewer still that address both the innovator and corporate perspectives, even fewer still that illuminate the roadmap with real case studies, and next to none that uses successes and …
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October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Book Review, Market Intelligence, Technology
