TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mirchandani,Vinnie
TI  - The new polymath: profiles in compound-technology innovations 
SN  - 9781119200284
AV  - HF5351 
U1  - 658.4063 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - John Wiley & Sons
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Innovations
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Structural Adjustment
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Case studies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - �Etudes de cas
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323) and index; Prologue: The field of polymath dreams -- The new polymath : in an age of "wicked problems" and technology abundance -- Modern-day dark ages : so much stagnation -- Polymath profile #1 : General Electric -- Residence : better technologically equipped than the office -- Exotics : innovation from left field -- Polymath profile #2 : Cognizant -- Networks : bluetooth to broadband -- Polymath profile #3 : Plantronics -- Arsonists : and other disruptors -- Polymath profile #4 : W.R. Hambrecht -- Interfaces : for all our senses -- Sustainability : delivering to both the green and gold agendas -- Polymath profile #5 : Kleiner Perkins Cleantech -- Singularity : human-machine convergence -- Analytics : spreadsheets, search, and semantics -- Polymath profile #6 : National Hurricane Center -- Networks again : communities, crowds, contracts, and collaboration -- Clouds : technology-as-a-service -- Polymath profile #7 : salesforce.com -- Ethics : in an age of cyberwar and cloning -- Polymath profile #8 : BP CTO -- Moon shots for budding polymaths -- Epilogue: The beginner's mind
N2  - Prepare for a world of compound innovation which blends 3, 5, 10 strands of infotech, greentech, biotech and healthtech to solve the "Grand Challenges" our world faces-and the more routine ones. Polymath is the Greek word for a Renaissance person like Leonardo Da Vinci or Ben Franklin who excels in many disciplines. The New Polymath is an enterprise which has learned to amalgamate 3, 5, 10 strands of technology-infotech, cleantech, healthtech, nanotech, biotech-to create compound new products and to innovate internal processes. Anchors around case studies on innovations and creative
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119200284
ER  -