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In this issue:

* Lessons from the Dot-Com Era
* Smart Innovation
* Prospects for Pervasive Computing
* Consumers on the Financial Edge
* Learning Objects in Practice
* Corporate Venturing
* A Strategic Role for Computer Storage
* Toward Globalization of Mobile Services


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Lessons from the Dot-Com Era

Consumer e-commerce has survived its adolescence, and the next 
five years should bring relative calm in the wake of the dot-com 
boom and bust. In the next phase, e-tailers will focus on 
integrating retail channels to improve efficiency, seek to 
increase Internet and e-commerce penetration worldwide, and offer 
consumers new ways-such as mobile devices--to shop online. 
(Consumer E-Commerce: Boom, Bust, and Lessons for the Future)
http://www.sric-bi.com/DF/summaries/ConsumerEComm0702.shtml


Smart Innovation 

Though most firms now accept that successful innovation is a 
major source of value, too many companies find themselves with 
brilliant ideas in search of applications. The key is to have a 
consistent innovation process that invites creativity at every 
level of the organization while keeping everybody's eyes on the 
company's strategic focus, profitability, and competitiveness. 
(Supervalue from Innovation Processes)
http://www.sric-bi.com/BIP/Rsums/RS857.shtml


Prospects for Pervasive Computing

Pervasive computing has value for both consumer and business 
markets, promising to change the focus of computing from machines 
on desktops to human-centered computing in which computing tasks 
fade into the background. However, at a recent SRIC-BI roundtable, 
industry experts tempered their optimism with discussions of the 
significant barriers that still impede widespread commercial 
application of the constellation of technologies that make up 
pervasive computing. (Gating Factors on the Road to Pervasive 
Computing)
http://www.sric-bi.com/BIP/Bulletin/B308.shtml - 2388


Consumers on the Financial Edge

Household debt has more than doubled in the past ten years, 
reaching $7.7 trillion in 2001. Moreover, credit issues will 
increasingly haunt households' financial lives, all the way 
through retirement. Some consumers will put the brakes on and 
start saving more, cutting spending, and limiting additional debt. 
Others will have more difficulty exiting the credit cycle and will 
continue living on the financial edge. (Living on Borrowed Money)
http://www.sric-bi.com/CFD/MRsummaries/MR.V-10.shtml


Learning Objects in Practice

A recent survey by SRIC-BI's Learning-on-Demand Program shows 
that a significant gap exists between the promise of learning-
object technologies and their actual role in most eLearning 
organizations. Nonetheless, case studies of Autodesk, Shell 
Exploration, Cisco Systems, and others suggest that, despite 
remaining implementation issues, learning-object adoption is 
gathering pace. (Learning Objects in Practice)
http://www.sric-bi.com/LoD/summaries/LoDRpt12.shtml


Corporate Venturing

Corporate-venturing activity declined some 70% between the 
third quarter of 2000 and the same quarter one year later, 
with big players like AT&T, Compaq, and News Corporation 
closing their venture units in the wake of the dot-com bust. 
Indeed, the days of patterning corporate venture units after 
private venture-capital methods are gone, and companies are 
looking for ways to use venturing for strategic advantage. 
(Gaining Strategic Advantage from Corporate Venturing)
http://www.sric-bi.com/BIP/Bulletin/B308.shtml - 2389


A Strategic Role for Computer Storage

The market for electronic storage is evolving from a commodity 
market to one that can play an important strategic role for 
developers and marketers of consumer-electronics products. By 
analyzing storage options in the context of consumer demand rather 
than technology categories, companies can make strategic choices 
between hard-disk, optical-disc, and silicon storage technologies 
for their electronic products. (The Evolving Landscape of Consumer 
Storage Media)
http://www.sric-bi.com/BIP/Bulletin/B308.shtml - 2390


Toward Globalization of Mobile Services

In their efforts to develop truly global organizations,
mobile-communications operators would like to roll out many new 
common network interfaces that allow applications to talk to the 
network. However, cost and time barriers have allowed only limited 
standardization to date, so operators are developing middleware 
solutions as a transitional step. They are also making greater use 
of third-party application developers and systems integrators to 
provide ongoing support services. (Developing and Deploying Mobile 
Services)
http://www.sric-bi.com/BIP/Bulletin/B308.shtml - 2391


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