A thousand curses on Google!

By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 14, 2010

So, I have roughly a week to go through the copy-edit of my book and slip in any updates since I filed the manuscript in January. And I find I have to mention Google’s broadband plans in the chapter on networks. And the Nexus One. Have to mention Buzz in the chapter on the other networks – the social kind. Touch on the Google-China spat in the chapter on ethics. Fit in the Apps marketplace in the chapter on clouds.

Slow down, will you, Google?

Actually for a book on innovation, Google is a fire hose. It is not one of the anchor 8 Polymath case studies in the book, but its presence is felt in many, many parts of the book.

Of course, it’s not just Google. ..

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Vinnie Mirchandani

CEO of Deal Architect, a top advisory boutique recognized in The Black Book of Outsourcing, author of a widely praised book on technology enabled innovation, The New Polymath, prolific blogger, writing about technology-enabled innovation at New Florence, New Renaissance and about waste in technology at Deal Architect. Previously Analyst at Gartner, Partner with PwC Consulting. Keynoted at many business and technology conferences and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, CIO Magazine, and other executive and technology publications.