Social Machinery

One of the biggest challenges technology companies face these days is to maintain a fast pace of innovation and try to foster an entrepreneurial culture where employees can bring lead and drive the development of new ideas.

Google is a great example of innovative culture and one of the programs that I really like is their Innovation 80/20 model, so called “innovation time off”, where employees are encourages spending up to 20% of their time working in their own innovation projects or ideas.

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Last week Vision Mobile consulting released a new study regarding application stores. The report is extremely interesting since the main sponsor is Telefonica developer community and some of the findings are quite disruptive showing how mobile operators losing the battle for application developer’s heart.  continue reading »