Collaboration

We know that multi-party collaboration to develop new technologies, standards, and markets is still a  very new concept. So we’ve aggregated freely available material from some thought leaders we admire to help you stay in touch.

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Collaboration

Bowling with a Crystal Ball: How to predict technology trends, create disruptive implementations and navigate them through industry.
by Yoram Solomon (Author)
The book hits upon and explains a nascent but important trend today--- namely the creation of new markets using a range of disruptive and collaborative techniques and the massive stakes involved. Anyone who wants to understand what technology ecosystems are and their impact will find this book essential reading. I particularly liked the sections on derivative disruption and implementations, standards development organizations, and technology trending.

Networks, Alliances and Partnerships in the Innovation Process (Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation)
by John de la Mothe (Editor), Albert N. Link (Editor)
Why we should be concerned about networks, alliances, and partnerships in the innovation process, now, in the 21st century.

Standards

Standards and Competitive Technology Strategy
by Deepak Kamlani, CEO Inventures
This article highlights the drivers for the creation of standards; their essential role in competitive technology strategy, particularly the generation of disruptive business models; and, the key standards issues a CTO or CIO should consider as they develop technology strategies correlated to their supplier, partner, competitor and employee value chains.

Innovation Strategy and Corporate Standards Management
Centralization is a dirty word. For many it conjures up images of bureaucracy, inertia, and socialism and all its perceived and attendant ills. Yet, corporations do centralize many critical functions, and they do direct functional policy and practice from this perspective— planning, hiring, and supply chain management are some examples. In this article I attempt to make the case for a Corporate Standards Practice, in the context of corporate objectives, innovation strategy, research and development investment, and the need to generate a return on investment from these programs.

ICT Standards and the New Arms Race—the Rule of 3(+N)
The quest for global standards is a time-honored and noble cause. International and National government agencies, Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and private sector industry coalitions (consortia) have made this quest a Holy Grail. In this article, I hope to show that Global as a prefix and objective for any ICT standard essentially dooms it to failure. Given the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) landscape now and that expected in the future, the best we can hope for is the Rule of 3(+N). This would be the three dominant regional power blocs—North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific—utilizing national or regional ICT standards as strategic weapons in a new arms race to protect national and regional economic interest and achieve prominence in the global economy.