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Polymaths see the bigger picture

Polymaths see the bigger picture

By Phil Wainewright on July 17, 2010

One of my big themes these days is to look at the huge opportunities available to businesses that transform their operations, cost base or market reach through their use of the cloud. So I’m looking forward to meeting up this week with my Enterprise Irregulars colleague Vinnie Mirchandani, whose new book is all about a […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business, Cloud Computing, eurocloud, innovation, polymath, The New Polymath, Vinnie Mirchandani

The New Polymath Wow Candidate Contest

The New Polymath Wow Candidate Contest

By Vinnie Mirchandani on July 12, 2010

Abbie Lundberg, former editor-in-chief at CIO magazine in her review of my book, The New Polymath called it a “veritable firehose of innovation examples”. The book covers wide innovation ground across industries, countries and technologies. 150…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, google, kindle, online shopping, polymath, The New Polymath

An Enterprise 2.0 Case Study: My Book

An Enterprise 2.0 Case Study: My Book

By Vinnie Mirchandani on July 5, 2010

At the E2.0 Boston conference I saw plenty of handwringing about the lack of successful practical examples around social computing. I can point to one – a personal example – over the last year how my book, The New Polymath has drawn on communitie…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged e20, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, google, Marc Benioff, polymath, Social Media, The New Polymath | 2 Responses

No deal for the Deal Architect

No deal for the Deal Architect

By Vinnie Mirchandani on July 3, 2010

I felt like screaming like the man in the movie Godfather who wakes up to find the head of his horse, Khartoum in bed. I opened a package and all it had was a scalp – the top of a package I had sent a week ago with copies of my new book. On it wa…

Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, book pricing, polymath, The New Polymath

A car for the blind

A car for the blind

By Vinnie Mirchandani on July 2, 2010

In my new book in a chapter on interfaces I describe how the auto industry is years ahead of the software industry in non-keyboard, mouse driven user interfaces. Some of the haptic, audio and other interfaces have been adapted to a car for the blin…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Automobile, DARPA Grand Challenge, Homes, National Federation of the Blind, polymath, Smart Autos, Sports, technology, The New Polymath

An invigorating day with Talent Management executives

An invigorating day with Talent Management executives

By Vinnie Mirchandani on June 25, 2010

Readers know I like small, specialized services firms like appirio and Corefino. I have also been a fan of Knowledge Infusion and its work around talent management for a while, and yesterday that respect jumped multiple fold. Oh, they gave me a cha…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Appirio, corefino, Human resources, knowledge infusion, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Northrop Grumman, polymath, Six Sigma, Southwest Airlines, The New Polymath

Marc Benioff's inspiring foreword to the book

Marc Benioff’s inspiring foreword to the book

By Vinnie Mirchandani on June 23, 2010

As I listened to Marc’s presentation at the Cloudforce event in San Jose yesterday, I felt proud he wrote the foreword to my book. Not just any foreword, a really inspiring one – excerpts below and entire copy as attachment below My reasons for reaching out to him were simple. Marc is clearly a pioneer […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Marc Benioff, polymath, salesforce.com, The New Polymath | 1 Response

Malcolm Galdwell illustration by Remie Geoffroi - click through to read the Creative Journey

An author’s hour in heaven

By Vinnie Mirchandani on June 21, 2010

When I started to write the book, a friend of mine wise cracked “All you need is a hairdo like Malcolm Gladwell’s”. You know I would kill for that hair :)But I am just as flattered by this comparison Tom Foydel makes between The New Polymath and Gladwell’s Outlier. Or the one Sadagopan makes with […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon, books, Malcolm Gladwell, polymath, Seth Godin, The New Polymath

The New Polymath "Wow" Candidate Contest

The New Polymath "Wow" Candidate Contest

By Vinnie Mirchandani on June 13, 2010

Abbie Lundberg, former editor-in-chief at CIO magazine in her review of my book, The New Polymath called it a “veritable firehose of innovation examples”. The book covers wide innovation ground across industries, countries and technologies. 150…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon, contest, innovation, polymath, The New Polymath, wow

Polymath, Renaissance person - Why we all must become one

Polymath, Renaissance person – Why we all must become one

By Brian Sommer on June 7, 2010

Vinnie Mirchandani believes so strongly that we all need to be Renaissance people that he wrote The New Polymath. Do you need to become one?

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business, Cloud Computing, Deal Architect, polymath, renaissance man, The New Polymath | 1 Response

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