Google: Making relevance!

Command Line interface to the world!!

Google on the news:

Google launched "Google Onebox" recently:

http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/

Another nice article on the launch:

http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186700039&pgno=1&queryText=

Machine replaces human!

For more than a decade, IT consulting companies promised the convergence/integration of the applications that an enterprise had been using. This integration is a huge task which the consulting companies were meant to fail at - nevertheless they made huge bucks!

Google has launched this innovative tool to just achieve this convergence/integration. No more do you need an IT consulting company to create tools that would integrate data from various applications

Hope Google can expand this tool (and still maintain the speed!)

Another Nice Feature

Another feature that I liked is that the data can be represented graphically (though this needs some development work today)

Marketing Innovation

Google pitches this as "command line interface to the world" - which I found to be really cool! This not only shows the big audicious goals that Google has, but also the power that they have to affect the world!

Open Source

Like many great projects have discovered that open source can help scale the project - which otherwise would have grown organically over a loong period of time. I believe, this project is one of those ones that fit with the open source models. And Google is not new to this game - they have done this before

This time, Google just need to expose APIs and sit back and relax. The rest of the applications would be integrated by the open source community!

Innovation: no more prerogative of R&D

BusinessWeek: World's Most Innovative Companies

Business Week with BCG came up with the list of Top-25 innovative companies. They have a great article with lot of data at:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_17/b3981401.htm

Key Message:

The key message of today's innovation is summarized by comment from IBM CEO: "The way you will thrive in this environment is by innovating -- innovating in technologies, innovating in strategies, innovating in business models"

Innovation has to be in every part of the company - be it sales or marketing or corporate strategy or R&D. Cisco for example had been successful with its innovative acquisition strategy. Cisco for this next decade is innovating on the partnership model

Just as a Note: I might not agree with the list that BusinessWeek has come up with. I do agree though with the key message of the article/study