Category: Viodi View
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2011 Reflections from Roger
The end of 2011 started with scanning as I began scanning old slides and looking at old video footage. The memories made me realized what a wonderful life I’ve had, and the great people I’ve enjoyed it with. Plus, I didn’t have to jump off a bridge to realize it. The scanning gave me with…
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Viodi View – 12/21/11
Viodi produced and posted over 110 videos for ViodiTV in 2012 and yet that is only a partial list of our work. Many of our interviews, event reports, and recent documonials are on other sites and in some cases in our archives awaiting for an accompanying a story. We traveled from the Sierra Nevada of…
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Viodi View – 11/23/11
If Innovation is the driver of economic growth, then what is necessary to spark innovation? Is there a recipe that a society can use to create a culture of innovation? Do apps count as innovation or is innovation associated with breakthroughs in basic research? Silicon Valley has been a center of innovation for decades and…
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Viodi View – 11/09/11
Tom Peters had it right some 20+ years ago when he suggested that the work force would be shifting away from a static, hierarchical structure to one shaped by dynamic teams that form out of a need and disband when the need goes away. As I recall, or maybe as I infer through the lens…
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Viodi View – 10/26/11
Making the complex simple was perhaps Steve Jobs greatest legacy. Unfortunately, most of the tools intended to make life easier, actually make things more difficult and detract from what we are trying to accomplish. Too often, what should be a simple task of connecting to the mobile Internet or printing a document turns into a…
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Viodi View – 10/12/11
The forces of creative destruction unleashed by the combination of broadband and computing power have transformed virtually every industry in the past 20 years. Two closely intertwined sectors, government and education, have been relatively untouched through this time of tumult. A growing chorus from a variety of groups indicates that at least the education part…