DigitalBridges2.0 is launching a new start-up, the DigitalBridges2.0 Business Boot Camp. The goal is to run a pilot session during January 2008. Ours is an ambitious undertaking, and delivering on that goal is going to be exceedingly challenging, but with the support we have received on campus, the wind is at our back. By late summer we will have created and staffed a curriculum and finalized the operational structure from whole cloth. To that end we are inviting the BRIDGES community to collaborate with us in crafting the business plan and then launching the pilot next January.
Submitted by Claudon on April 24, 2007 - 4:00pm.
Submitted by Claudon on January 27, 2007 - 1:04pm.
Ron Liebowitz's contended that Millennials are risk-averse. In his welcoming remarks. I disagree. My experience is that they take risk and manage it well when challenged to do so. It's more about the framework. Too much of the liberal arts setting places students in spectator roles as professors drone on, however passionately, in the front of the room.
But give them their heads in service learning environments that challenge them to defied and then execute complex projects and deliver actionable results, and they rise to the challenge more often than not.
Submitted by Claudon on January 27, 2007 - 11:31am.
Welcome to the DB2.0 Conference, January 2007
I thank Michael Claudon for conveying to all of you my words of welcome and greetings, as I am not able to be with you today for what promises to be an exciting and important conference. My congratulations to the students in the Winter Term class that worked so hard to make this conference a possibility; I would extend those congratulations as well to Michael, but I know he would quickly say, “don’t congratulate me; the students did the work, which is much of what this is all about.” But thank you, Michael, anyway, for making it possible for the students to do all the work.
Submitted by Claudon on June 14, 2007 - 1:32pm.
Submitted by Claudon on June 14, 2007 - 12:29pm.
We had a super high-energy gathering at Holly ('80) and Peter Ruhlin's home in Darien, CT last night. Thank you so very much, Holly and Peter for so generously hosting the event!
I received lots of great feedback, constructive criticism and ideas on how best to organize the "boot camp." However, as "Boot Camp" was stomped pretty unanimously, I am only using the term as a marker for now.
Besides some great name suggestions, which I willl get to below, I left with three valuable takeaways:
1) The program still feels like it is trying to accomplish more than is possible in four weeks.
Submitted by Claudon on March 28, 2007 - 4:38pm.
I can remember way back in the halcyon days of Web 1.0, when everyone was figuring out how to migrate old things into the new space, advertising, buying and selling and mail. The tools were expensive, as was bandwidth, if you could find it. Newbies were everywhere, passively and tentatively nibbling at content being pushed at them from above. Convergence was the buzz phrase du jour.
Among the “convergers” where the application service providers (ASP), who dangled the ultimate dream. We could access our applications and data whenever we wanted to and from wherever we were at the moment. Why should we own applications or even hard drives when we can simply let all of it live on a server and pay the company for as much as we use, sort of like our monthly telephone bill? Imagine, always having the latest version, while bottom lines grow with the cost savings and efficiencies gained by migrating key business functions, even databases to the ASP model.
Submitted by Claudon on February 23, 2007 - 3:06pm.
What is a liberal arts college’s role in this process? Specifically what is Middlebury College’s role in this process? What is our goal? Is it creating a culture on campus that embraces thinking and behaving more innovatively, and that celebrates risk-taking? Does it mean graduating students who think and behave more innovatively and who have had personal experience with taking risks and risk management? Answering that question is at least difficult unless and until we have defined exactly what we mean by thinking and behaving more innovatively (or entrepreneurially) in the liberal arts context, and understand how we measure and evaluate the results of such behavior. How does the recently-announced Middlebury College Initiative to Support Creativity and Innovation in the Liberal Arts inform this process?
Submitted by Claudon on February 20, 2007 - 11:32am.
The Initiative that President Liebowitz announced this week represents a critical first step towards building a culture of innovation, risk-taking and risk management that truly embraces and can be integrated in the liberal arts tradition. Most important, the Initiative recognizes that we are not engaged in a zero sum game within which gains made toward building innovation, risk-taking and risk management into the culture implies a commensurate shrinking of the adaptive culture that now dominates the liberal arts. In taking this step, Middlebury College is once again taking risk and innovation, and defining a new set of rules in the proces. That the initiative is perfectly timed is evidenced by last Monday's editorial in the Wall St. Journal. DigitalBridges2.0 is delighted to serve as a model for what might become a norm across Middlebury's community. With Liz Robinson '84 at the helm and Rory Riggs '74 so generously funding the Initiative, we expect to soon be learning about and celebrating a whole set of pathbreaking innovative initiatives at the Collge on the Hill.
Submitted by Claudon on February 20, 2007 - 11:29am.
The following is a story from the Wall Street Journal-Printed Feb. 17, 2007
Why does the American economy keep confounding the Jeremiahs (and the Dow Jones Industrial Average keep soaring)? It is the appetite for innovation, the extraordinary capital to support risk, and the political framework of freedom for the individual. I recently asked Sergey Brin and Larry Page, through their search engine Google, what they could discover about American chief executives and innovation. They gave me 9,850,000 entries to read. By now it may be up to 10 million or more. This cornucopia about innovation reflects a major but little remarked change that has taken place in American business thinking. Of course, Google is just one of the innovations which now make up the tissue of our everyday lives -- think of email, antibiotics, television, statewide banking, FM radio, personal computers, the uplift brassiere, helicopters, instant cameras, cell phones, synthetic fibers, radio tuners, MRI scanners, scheduled airmail, trans-Atlantic flights, fish fingers, microwave ovens, transistorized hearing aids, artificial insulin, lasers and jet planes, not to mention the container shipping that effectively initiated globalization.
Submitted by Claudon on February 1, 2007 - 10:47am.
Here is one review of the DigitalBridges2007 conference.
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Submitted by Claudon on January 31, 2007 - 12:43pm.
The iBridgeSM Network, a program of the Kauffman Innovation Network, Inc., and its accompanying Web site, recently launched a beta version of its new launch venue for new products, technologies and companies. University researchers, industry representatives, and entrepreneurs can use the iBridge Web site to search for university-innovations.
With over 700 research projects listed, the iBridge Web site is designed to ease the transaction burden on university technology transfer offices, and encourage more open and efficient access to innovations of interest to entrepreneurs and industry representatives alike. To learn more, visit iBridge Web.
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