http://www.stravora.com Connect. Innovate. Grow. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:23:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Visit the RAZCODE Blog, our sister blog, to learn about the RAZCODE Gateway and our mission to liberate consumer health information. http://www.stravora.com/2009/11/liberating-consumer-health-information/ April marks the 10 year anniversary of the publication of my book - Act Like an Owner: Building an Ownership Culture.  As I was thinking about the experience of writing the book over the weekend, I started to consider whether the central tenants of the book still made sense 10 ... http://www.stravora.com/2009/03/internal-franchise/ Tomorrow February 24, 2009 marks the inaugural meeting of the Baltimore Angels investment group at the Emerging Technology Center (in which I am participating). The Baltimore Angels puts angel investors in touch with entrepreneurs via bimonthly meetings and other events. It is exciting to see the energy around this new ... http://www.stravora.com/2009/02/innovation-in-baltimore/ Part 2 of my post on the new book by Clayton Christensen called: The Innovators Prescription . Part 1 can be found here: (The Innovators Prescription for IT). A key theme of the book is that the general hospital is not a viable business model because it is focused on trying to ... http://www.stravora.com/2009/02/innovators_prescription_2/ Over the weekend I finished reading  The Innovators Prescription written by Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, along with Jason Hwang M.D. and the late Jerome Grossman M.D. Christensen intoduced the concept of disruptive innovation back in 1997 in The Innovators Dilemma. As I read this book, which is about ... http://www.stravora.com/2009/02/innovators_prescription/ One of the more positive things I took away from the ASAE Tech Conference was that many associations are starting to embrace disruptive technologies. Disruptive technologies deliver relatively simple, convenient, and low cost innovations to a set of customers who are ignored by industry leaders. Tools like Wordpress, YouTube, Facebook are ... http://www.stravora.com/2009/02/asae_part3/ As I mentioned in my previous post, Associations have a real opportunity to move beyond fixing and replacing their existing systems as the focus of their technology initiatives if they embrace a couple of key concepts that were highlighted by  Chris Sacca in his General Session talk. These concepts are:  stay ... http://www.stravora.com/2009/02/asae_part2/ I attended the ASAE Technology Conference (http://twurl.cc/ei5) this week (January 26-28) to try and discern any patterns around new and interesting problems facing the Association community. I love innovation, and innovation begins with identifying pervasive and urgent problems that need to be solved. I found that not much has changed. Since about 2004 ... http://www.stravora.com/2009/01/asae_tech09/ I recently blogged about a new disruptive technology for PL/SQL developers, so the following discussion on Eddie Awad's Blog (and the related conversation I started on a LinkedIn Group ) caught my attention because it highlights the concept of overshooting -- the fact that many companies innovate faster than customers ... http://www.stravora.com/2008/12/plsql/ I have recently started working with a promising company (Bizwhazee) that is offering an AJAX framework for enterprise PL/SQL developers. I am energized about this product because it has the potential to be disruptive within the ORACLE PL/SQL developer community. One way to to define a disruptive innovation is that it enables ... http://www.stravora.com/2008/11/enterprise20/