The multi-billion-dollar drug sector has endured a decade of under-performance. "Pfizer’s ( PFE), Eli Lilly’s ( LLY), Merck's ( MRK), and Bristol Myers Squibb’s ( BMY) stock…
We all know that big, established companies struggle to respond to "disruptive" change. Blockbuster, HMV, Nokia, and Yahoo! are all current examples of companies that are…
In a previous poll, we asked if you thought every major city or airport should have free wifi. The results are mixed, but in favor of some coverage with free wifi. That means…
Josh Jarrett, Deputy Director of Postsecondary Success at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivered today's keynote at the Open Education Conference with a simple…
Collaboration is effective. Human survival depends on it, and great human achievements stand in testament. But anyone who has sat on a committee, organized a community, or led…
More than ever, companies are embracing the principles of open source to make major improvements, both internally and externally. Openness, transparency, democratization, and…
If you do a google search of "Occupy Wall St."+"open source," you'll find a lot of interesting reading. While there is some discussion of the technology and techniques used by…
This post originally appeared in Tim O'Reilly's Google+ feed and on O'Reilly Radar. This tweet by Steve Case ( @stevecase) struck home for me, because in the aftermath of…
Not all work-from-home gigs are created equal. There is a vast ocean between being a member of a distributed team and just being a remote worker. The groups of "remote worker"…
Some fifteen years ago, in the early days of starting up Fast Company magazine, co-founder Alan Webber, shared one of his rules of thumb with me: "a good question beats a good…
Creativity is less an art than a discipline--and surprisingly practical and accessible If you think creativity is the province of a privileged few--the proverbial black…