Breaking the rules on pizza delivery. Will Papa John's 10-minute pizza bring them to number one?

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2006-04-24-fast-pizza-usat_x.htm

Question: If you order pizza when you are camping, is it really camping?

-Adam

Snippet from CNN Money about how large media firms are acquiring video game companies and gaming websites in an effort to attract new customers and as a potential new channel for advertising.

Big media: Time to play games

Interesting article about CEO of Sun, Scott McNealy, stepping down. We talked in class about Sun potentially being the biggest threat to IBM, but now this is the fourth Sun executive to either resign or retire in the past two months.

The article, McNealy steps down at Sun, is from cnet.com

Here's a snippette on Honda and their Civic that runs on natural gas...

http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6490981.html?tag=blog

Here is another Apple snippette... Apple has release a new version of their remote desktop manages networked MAC OS X systems. The new version is designed to work with Intel based MACs.

http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/2006/04/11/apple-remote-desktop-0411markets15.html

"Google Calendar"

Here is another Google snippet.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-04-12-google-calendar_x.htm

Sorry, the link in my last post didn't work. Here's a working link.
Protective parents: Gold for cellular services?

Disney to offer new cell phone service for kids, but with features aimed at protective parents, such as GPS to follow child's location and the ability to monitor voice and text messages.
Protective parents: Gold for cellular services?

The following link discusses a new possible strategy for Google and how you search for information.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/11/technology/google_search/index.htm

"The Forgotten Strategy"

If you are interested in global strategy you might want to check out the article " The Forgotten Strategy" by Pankaj Ghemawat. See link below. I came across this when I was doing research on the strategies used by CEMEX. They place a very high value on information technology and international knowledge workers. Based on their stock chart, NYSE: CX, I would say their strategy is a success.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:0SPakRWfYLwJ:www.farrell-associates.com.au/Ops%2520Mgmt/Forgotten%2520Strategy.pdf+cemex+strategy

Hello Class.

I started a new blog for my posts. I thought it would be a good way to get rid of the piles of magazines I have at home.

Feel free to visit and comment as well as to this Blog.

The URL is www.geneawright.com

Gene A. Wright

Interesting article on e-waste from businessweek.com - HP Wants Your Old PCs Back. I found the section towards the bottom, which discusses Apple's pushback to such recycling programs and the impact it's had on the company's "progressive" image.

Found and article on CNet.com discussing the future of WiFi and cellular networks. The article is titled The skinny on CTIA Wireless 2006.

There's a section of the story that I found particularly relevant after last weeks class titled "A WiMax Combination," which discusses how some larger companies (ie. Intel and Motorola) are working together to lead in the push of these new technologies.

I had to check out Gary Hamel's company Strategos on the web, and while doing so came across an interesting article on Whilpool. See links below.

http://www.strategos.com/

http://yahoo.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar2006/id20060306_287425.htm

Hamel has definitely left his mark on Whilpool. They now have thousands of people involved with innovation, whereas before it was just Engineering and Marketing. I like that they have a knowledge management system that can be used as an avenue for the (hidden) innovators. They also have "I-mentors" (like Six Sigma black belts) that help facilitate innovation projects.