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Interviews exploring the intersection of Strategy and Innovation.
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The Evolution of the Israeli High-Tech Business Ecosystem, with Shai Schiller, CEO of Modula, Ltd.
Stranova Interview Series Vol. 33, published June 9, 2008. In terms of profitable ideas generated per square mile, the country of Israel houses one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial high-tech communities in the world, rivaled perhaps only by Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, that same commun ...
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Softpress's Freeway Pro: Software Strategy for the Niche Player, with Ian Schray, Softpress System...
Stranova Interview Series Vol. 32, published May 29, 2008. As in many industries, the world of software for web publishing is dominated by one major player and a scattering of smaller players scrambling for their own piece of the market. One company that has found a way to rise above it all is Sof ...
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Just Water, with Assaf Barnea, CEO and Founder of The Kinrot Incubator
Stranova Interview Series Vol. 31, published May 6, 2008. In our interview with entrepreneur Assaf Barnea, you will hear about a highly unusual type of business startup, an incubator specializing in projects related to all aspects of water technology, from water purification to the methodology of m ...
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Urban Planning Using ASU's Decision Theater, with Dr. Deirdre Hahn
Stranova Interview Series Vol. 30, published January 28, 2008. Planning the future of our cities has become far more complex than ever before, involving considerations of population age distributions, the need for schools, traffic flow, tax revenue planning, pollution concerns, weather patterns, an ...
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Viral Marketing Using Online Games, with Matt Ramsay
Stranova Interview Series Vol. 29, published September 2, 2007. With its seemingly effortless ability to spread the word rapidly about new products and services, viral marketing has become advertising???s modern equivalent of the Holy Grail. One of the most important segments of this new field is ...
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"The Evolution of Small Business by 2020", with David Sibbet
Voices from 2020, Vol. 9, Published August 31, 2007. Mr. David Sibbett, President and Founder of The Grove Consultants International, shares a wide-ranging conversation with hosts Bill Veltrop and Firehawk on how small businesses will evolve by 2020, networked together and yet localized far more th ...
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"The Coming Bifurcation of the World of Business", with David Sibbet
Voices from 2020, Vol. 9, Published August 31, 2007. Mr. David Sibbett, President and Founder of The Grove Consultants International, shares a wide-ranging conversation with hosts Bill Veltrop and Firehawk on how small businesses will evolve by 2020, networked together and yet localized far more th ...
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"The Digital Bridge Academy at Cabrillo College", with guest Diego Navarro
Voices from 2020, Vol. 8, Published June 30, 2007. In this eighth episode of Voices from 2020, hosts Firehawk and Bill Veltrop interview Diego Navarro, Founder and Director of the Digital Bridge Academy at Cabrillo College in Watsonville, California. The Digital Bridge Academy is a highly innovati ...
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Itanium Solutions Alliance Entrepreneurial Innovation Awards Finalist 2007: UC Riverside
Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 4, Published June 26, 2007. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Walid Najjar of the University of California Riverside's Department of Computer Science and Engineering, about his innovative approach to modeling scientific applications using a specialized Itanium2 supe ...
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Itanium Solutions Alliance Humanitarian Impact Innovation Awards Finalist 2007: Interactive Superc...
Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 5, Published June 26, 2007. For the fifth of this series, we interview Bill Blake, CEO of Interactive Supercomputing, on his company's innovative Star-P software system, which allows advanced desktop software such as Matlab and Python to "run" on supercomputer syste ...
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Itanium Solutions Alliance Enterprise Innovation Awards Finalist 2007: Kindred Healthcare
Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 6, Published June 26, 2007. In this sixth interview of our series, we talk with Daniel Poff, Director of Database Administration and SAP Basis at Kindred Healthcare, about his company's major upgrade challenge from a five-year old server platform and how they dealt ...
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Itanium Solutions Alliance Humanitarian Impact Innovation Award 2007: Stony Brook University
Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 3, Published May 30, 2007. In this third of a series of interviews with the winners of the Itanium Solutions Alliance???s Innovation awards, we talk with Dr. Carlos Simmerling of Stony Brook University, about his breakthrough modeling supporting advanced HIV and AID ...
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Itanium Solutions Alliance Entrepreneurial Innovation Award 2007: Secure64 Software Corporation
Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 2, Published May 30, 2007. In this second of a series of interviews with the winners of the Itanium Solution Alliance???s Innovation awards, we have as our guest Bill Worley, the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Secure64 Software Corporation, a startup tar ...
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Itanium Solutions' Alliance Enterprise Business Application Innovation Award 2007: Royal London Gr...
Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 1, Published May 30, 2007. In this first of a series of interviews with the winners of the Itanium Solutions Alliance???s Innovation awards, you???ll have the opportunity to hear Mr. Neil Heydon-Dumbleton, of the Royal London Group, speaking about how conversion to ...
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"The Ideal Corporation -- In 2020", with guests Mike Thomas and Peter Gaarn
Voices from 2020, Vol. 7, Published April 11, 2007. In this seventh episode of our Voices series, the four founders of the Monterey Institute for Social Architecture, including our podcast regulars plus Mike Thomas and Peter Gaarn, host a roundtable discussion on how the essence and aims of corpora ...
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Can You Hear Them Now? -- The Verizon vs. Vonage Patent Battle
Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 16, Published April 6, 2007. The patent infringement lawsuit between Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) pioneer Vonage and telecom giant Verizon is almost over. And although Vonage just won an important legal "stay" to allow it to keep in business and continue to mar ...
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Collective IQ & Human Augmentation, with Doug Engelbart
Stranova Interview Series Vol. 28, published April 4, 2007. Our latest podcast features Doug Engelbart, a visionary who has helped shape many of the major inventions of what we now think of as the internet as well as the early stages of computing, from early concepts of microelectronics to the inve ...
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Rapid Innovation in Collaborative Groups, with Stu Winby
Voices from 2020, Vol. 6, Published February 10, 2007. In this episode of our Voices from 2020 series, hosts Bill Veltrop and Firehawk interview Stu Winby, strategist in the field of group creativity, on how to help groups innovate faster and more effectively as a collaborative field. Listen and l ...
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Natural Capitalism, with Hunter Lovins
Stranova Interview Series Vol. 27, published January 7, 2007. As business gets involved in dealing with both the tremendous environmental challenges facing the world today, and elects to ???go green??? on a level we've never seen before, business also is learning that partnering and learning from n ...
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Our New Relationship with the Universe, with Duane Elgin
Voices from 2020, Vol. 5, Published December 19, 2006. In Part II of the Voices from 2020 interview with the 2006 Winner of Japan???s Goi Peace Prize, futurist and social scientist Duane Elgin (with hosts Firehawk and Bill Veltrop) takes us even deeper into our understanding of what it will mean fo ...
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