Panelists were:
Good morning from the Fortune Innovation Forum. Pictured to the left is the Innovator's Studio, one of the exhibits here at the conference. I'm sitting here on the right side of the Jazz At Lincoln Center auditorium, three rows back, near the only power strip I could find.
I had the opportunity to talk with a young man last week about his business idea. He reviewed his concept with me, and then sent his draft business plan. And, to be frank, it's got a long way to go before it can attract funding, channels, customers.
Almost unnoticed in the post-Thanksgiving news was the death of Donald Wilson.
Everyone knows "Catch-22"--though many of those may not have read the book; much less known, however, is the late Joseph Heller's second book, "Something Happened," unquestionably the funniest and scariest book ever written about the business world.
No blogs here. First Data, the leading supplier of transaction processing solutions to merchants, is quiet on the blog front. They have an attractive web site, but don't communicate beyond the typical press kit and investor relations tabs common to publicly traded companies.
In a post last month, I talked about Dr. James G. March's ideas on the value of foolishness in business. In the Harvard Business Review interview (link - $$) that served as the basis for that post, Dr. March cited one bit of foolishness that can have good consequences for business: that of borrowing ideas from another domain.
| Keyword | Impressions | Clicks | Total cost |
| MVNO | 359 | 8 | $4.22 |
| MVNE | 83 | 2 | $1.26 |
No blogs for Anheuser-Busch. Corporate blogging, at least at this large-company level, remains the province of tech companies and certain few others. (Those responsible for Boeing's blog, which I criticized in an earlier post, are due an apology. At least they have one and view it as worthy of time and investment.)| Keyword | Impressions | Clicks | Total cost |
| MVNO | 546 | 11 | $4.72 |
| MVNE | 68 | 1 | $0.16 |
