Using readily available cheap hardware and free/open software tools for commercial CT equipment, this surgeon came up with a quick and affordable solution to prep for helping his client. Company now created to help other surgeons do the same. Of course they could do it themselves with time&effort, but convenience is a good thing to sell.
http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism/ar/1
[…] in an important 2007 article in the Journal of Business Ethics, 31 of 34 directors surveyed (each of whom served on an average of six Fortune 200 boards) said they’d cut down a mature forest or release a dangerous, unregulated toxin into the environment in order to increase profits. Whatever they could legally do to maximize shareholder wealth, they believed it was their duty to do.
Why are directors so convinced of their obligation that they’d make decisions with such damaging results?
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/11/10/start-ups-and-safety-nets/
The countries with significantly higher start-up rates than the USA are those with stronger, more comprehensive, and more centralised social safety nets, along with correspondingly higher taxation. It pays off.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7211
Authored by Yochai Benkler. Market evidence suggests that unlicensed wireless strategies are becoming the primary approach for implementing wireless communications technology. Actual market deployments of wireless technologies suggests that unlicensed follows the innovation model of the Internet, applied to wireless communications. Licensed-spectrum, by contrast, replicates the telephone system model. […] The most immediate implication is that any authorization for the FCC to conduct incentive auctions, and any plans to permit civilian use of federal spectrum, should include substantial discretion for the agency to provide adequate room for unlicensed strategies to develop new generations of innovation.
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/technology-chiefs-investing-in-hype-20111028-1mn5t.html
A new Australian survey has found what CIOs think and what they do are not necessarily the same thing.
The new CIO Trends survey by Connection Research has found few surprises in the perennial issues troubling chief information officers in Australian enterprises.
But it did reveal that even though CIOs believe tablets, bring-your-own and cloud computing trends are over-hyped, they are madly gearing their enterprises to embrace them.