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One of the essential steps to successful frugal innovation — and providing benefits that are otherwise too costly — is focusing on what’s really essential. Determining what is “essential” goes beyond providing goods manufactured with the cheapest materials. There are always trade-offs. In the U.S., back when AT&T had a telephone monopoly, they provided users with rugged, relatively expensive phones. The purpose was to avoid the expense of service calls since customers did not pay for these. (Many of the first phones made available after the company’s breakup had more functions, but were much more fragile.)

Our brains have an amazing ability to find relationships and discover meaning from diverse data sets. I was reminded of this as I looked more closely at the agenda for the upcoming “Know, Innovate, Grow” conference. Datamining, extraction of behavior patterns, and more are all related to an area that fascinates me, Inference.

Social networks, the Semantic Web and mash-ups are creating conditions that erode a classic barrier to innovation, the formal divisions within an organization (siloing).

Como director del Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento (IIC) me complace lanzar en nuestra página web este Blog del Instituto.  En una organización como la nuestra, dedicada a innovar en el campo del conocimiento, las ideas fluyen de continuo. Unas se concretan en productos y soluciones pero muchas otras quedan por el camino y no [...]