This will change everything. When can I get this phone?
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Bottoms up, Bottoms up
Posted on March 31, 2009 by Blaire
Last week our discussion on innovation brought two techniques to the table; top-down innovation and bottom-up innovation. These two ideas basically described where the ideas came from, and whether the trickled down or shot up. After thinking about the terms in that manner, I decided that if a low-rank employee could shoot his ideas all [...]
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Technology and the Globalization of Taste
Posted on March 31, 2009 by Megan
Theodore Bestor wrote an article entitled “How Sushi Went Global,” in 2000, and after reading it I felt it exemplified some ideals of technology that we have been discussing. Sushi has been at the top of Japanese cuisine for over a thousand years. It originally arose as a way of preserving food. Fish were placed [...]
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Enron = normal … accident, that is.
Posted on March 6, 2009 by Blaire
Enron = normal … accident, that is. A normal accident implies that given an organization, various unpredicted failures will occur. As we see in Organizations and Organizing, “it is virtually impossible to predict and protect against all the ways in which such systems can fail.” This term poses a lot of debate, because it is [...]
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