AND not ORThe Innovator’s Expanding Technology Palette

Vinnie Mirchandaniwww.florence20.typepad.com

The glorious tech “consumerization” decade

"I would rather compete with Sony than compete in another product category with Microsoft” - Steve Jobs, 2001

Not just Apple, of course

“The Den is mightier than the Board”

a flight path – one from a passenger GPS on the flight; the other from a tracking website

..neither from the airline itself

..and available to passenger for “near free”

Every industry has similarexamples

But, in meantime, our global “Grand Challenges” have grown

Historically, we have relied on Polymaths to help us innovate

Multi-disciplinary andMaverick

• Leonardo Da Vinci• Isaac Newton• Benjamin Franklin• others

• AND not OR ethos

Today’s Polymaths – teams more than individuals

Our blog/book research has identified several, blending 3,5,15 strands of• Infotech• Biotech• Cleantech• Healthtech• Nanotech

To create compound innovations • New algorithms• New medicine• New energy

GE Net Zero Home • Solar Panels• Scaled Down wind

turbine• Smart appliances• Next-gen fuel cells• OLED lighting• Home energy

management algorithms

• Interfaces to utility smart grids

• And…and …

BASF Bio-engineered Rice

• Crop Genome Databases

• Bio-Informatics • RFID chips• High speed

cameras• Robotics• And…and …

NOAA – Hurricane Tracking• Satellites• “Hurricane Hunters”• Dropsondes with

GPS and sensors• Ocean buoys

w/sensors• Supercomputer

analytics• 3rd party sites like

Stormpulse• And…and …

AND not OR even in more routine activities

Software, datacenters, massively shared application mgt, upgrades – one contract

Software-as-a-Service

Landline, VoIP, mobile calls, streaming music, mic/noise tech and fashion trends

Headsets

Day 1 – HD TV, yellow first down line, blogs; various player tech

US Football league

Complex services from Argentina, Canada, Egypt Hungary, India, Philippines

“Follow The Sun” IT/BPO Services

Even more AND not OR

Scanners, check and balance software, access to drug libraries, next-gen displays

Infusion Pump System

Visual, audio, haptic interfaces to driver and passengers

iDrive console

Next-gen solar film, electric vehicles, smart grid networks, fuel cells

Cleantech portfolio

Predictive analytics, sensory networks, 3D Visualization, Innovation ecosystem

CTO Innovation Group

AND not OR in Talent Sourcing

• Employees• Contractors• Outsourcers• Communities• Crowds• And…and…

AND not OR in data visualization

AND nor OR even in fun –2009 Model Santa Sleigh

• Icephobic Coatings• Ceramic Matrix

Composites• Sodium Batteries• 500 GB

holographic disk• Trip Optimizer• Wearable RFID

sensor• And…and …

“Designed” by the GE Global Research Center

The New Polymaths deserve more of our attention

704 followers

5.7 million followers

They deserve more of our ink and our “link love”

The 1528 classic about European Renaissance mentions Da Vinci only twice..

…and also covers many contemporary giants like Michelangelo and Raphael

We similarly need to spread our attention beyond Apple, Facebook etc

We also need AND not OR in Cyberethics

• Privacy

• Food/fuel tradeoff

• God Powers healthtech/nanotech

• Regulation of cybersavvy regulators

• GPS impact on neighborhoods

• Genetic markers and prophylactic surgeries

• Sustainability of “rare earths” for cleantech

• And… and..

We don’t need AND in technology “empty calories”

• $ 3 trillion a year in IT and telecom

• $ 2 a min mobile roaming

• $ 10,000 a software help desk call

• $ 5,000 a gallon in printer ink

• $ 100 a GB (not TB) in storage

• And.. And…

Be inspired by Polymaths -Old and New

“A man can do all things if he but wills them”

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)

“If you cannot solve a problem make the problem bigger because if you draw a bigger circle you start to see several systems that you can

work on…”

Bill Joy