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US Patent Office's Plan to Address Huge Backlog

By Dick Weisinger

The average time that a patent approved in 2009 was under review was 35 months — that’s almost three years.  There are currently 750,000 patents in backlog.  The long length of time to be approved, frequent complaints that patents are

Information Management: Innovative Information Access Companies

By Dick Weisinger

IDC announced the names of the top 9 most innovative information access companies to watch. The criteria for selecting these companies was: – Must be under $100 million in annual revenues – Must sell products with Web 2.0 style user

Innovation: Applying Agile Outside the Boundaries of Software

By Dick Weisinger

At the recent two-day Optimizing Innovation Conference, Xerox’s Francois Ragnet presented Xerox’s approach to make services more innovative.  It’s not an easy thing, partly because the basic nature of innovation seems to be at odds with the concept of services

SaaS: Leading Software Innovation?

By Dick Weisinger

Software Innovation? You haven’t seen anything yet! That’s the conclusion of a joint report by McKinsey and Company and the Sand Hill Company. After interviewing 857 enterprise software customers they found that 62 percent felt that while there’s been good

Innovation: More to Google than Secret Sauce

By Dick Weisinger

People often refer to the Google Search Algorithm as the ‘special sauce’ that has given them an edge in the Internet Search Space. But there’s more to Google’s success than the sauce. Google lives by nine pillars of innovation: Ideas