Think bigger
Businesses are limited in their ability to innovate by their reluctance to understand and adopt new forms of technology.
This is the thesis that Vinnie Mirchandani, a consultant, author and former Gartner analyst, presents in his new book The New Polymath. “The new polymath is an enterprise that is becoming comfortable with the whole spectrum of information technology and beyond, looking at biotech, nanotech, cleantech and healthtech,” Mirchandani explains.
He believes there are some companies that embody these values. One, he says, is Hospira, a US pharmaceuticals company that has developed a drug infusion system that checks a given... read more...
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