On the Tenth Day of X-Mas (Best Blog Posts of 2006)

On the tenth day of X-Masmy blogger gave to meblog posts worth keeping,spend vendors lancing,thoughts for a shilling,strategies for winning,tactics for saving,five golden rings,four little words,tri-focal lens,two boxing gloves,and a lesson in strategy. 10 Sourcing Innovation Blog Posts Worth Keeping Spend Matters Not What makes an innovative company? CombineNet IV: BoB’s Unique Talents Global Trade […]

Democratizing Innovation vs. Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing, as I noted in CrowdSourcing (Purchasing Innovation VI) and Cambrian House: Crowdsourced Software, which can be defined as the process of delegating various tasks for which you do not have the manpower or expertise from internal production to external entities or affiliations of networked persons with the expertise, access to, or raw capabilities that […]

Three Cheers for the EFF!

It’s my day off (from Sourcing Innovation), so I’d like to quote from a ZDNet article: Barney, the plush purple saurian, likes to sing about love, hugs and kisses. But the dinosaur’s lawyers have taken precisely the opposite view when threatening Web sites that display less-than-flattering images of the plump T-Rex–a legal tactic that finally […]