Link Collection — February 19, 2012

• What’s Your Mental Model Of Innovation? – Forbes

  “Achieving continuous innovation, Hamel stresses, “lies outside the performance envelope of today’s bureaucracy-infused management practices.” It will require major changes in mind and heart. It will need, Hamel writes, new values, new processes for innovation, a greater adaptability, the infusion of passion in the workplace and a new belief system or ideology.”

  tags: Innovation Hamel

• Big Data’s Impact in the World – NYTimes.com

  An excellent piece in the NYT on all things big data.

  “GOOD with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking…”

  tags: bigdata nytimes

• The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: February 2012 – tecosystems

  “For years now, it has been self-evident to us at RedMonk that programming language usage and adoption has been fragmenting at an accelerating rate [coverage]. As traditional barriers to technology procurement have eroded [coverage], developers have been empowered to leverage the runtimes they chose rather than those that were chosen for them. This has led to a sea change in the programming language landscape, with traditional language choices increasingly competing for attention with newer, more dynamic competitors.

  The natural consequence of this tectonic shift has been uncertainty. Vendors for whom supporting Java and Microsoft based stacks was once sufficient are being forced to evaluate the array of alternatives in an effort to maximize their addressable audience. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) stacks like Cloud Foundry and OpenShift are perhaps the best example of this; the differentiation for each at launch was in part their support for multiple independent runtimes from JavaScript to Ruby.

  While the question is obvious – which languages should I support? – the answer, and mechanisms for determining an answer, have been considerably less so….”

  tags: programming language sogrady redmonk

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