I just finished reading a Gartner research titled Contracting for Innovation in Outsourcing, 2010-2011, which outlines their findings on the state of  innovation expectations and results in traditional IT outsourcing contracts. According to the report, the majority of their results came from “contract reviews and innovation workshops at Gartner events”. Not unexpectedly, the results were [...]

I recently read an energy consultant’s analysis on the state of PG&E’s smart energy strategy. The consultant’s view was that while PG&E had a lot of the pieces to build a robust smart energy management system, it lacked the “glue” to hold it all together. This got me to thinking… do we really need “glue” [...]

Bilski lives on… well, in spirit anyway… Last week the US Supreme Court issued a ruling that, well, basically did nothing. It left the question as to what can be patented up in the air, pushing the decision-making process back to the lower courts. This was relief to many companies that hold “process” patents, and [...]

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released a 120 page report in July 2009 titled “Recycling – From E-Waste to Resources“. Commissioned as part of the Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) initiative, the report outlines some disturbing trends related to managing e-waste on a global scale by the year 2020: Global e-waste generation is growing [...]