Professors from Harvard Business School, Insead and Brigham Young University have just completed a six-year study of more than 3,000 executives and 500 innovative entrepreneurs, that included interviews with high-profile entrepreneurs including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell, founder of Dell computers.
In an article published in December’s Harvard Business Review the researchers identified five skills that separate the blue-sky innovators from the rest — skills they labeled associating, questioning, observing, experimenting and discovering.
One of the men behind the study, Insead’s Hal Gregersen, told CNN, “What the innovators have in common is that they can put together ideas and information in unique combinations that nobody else has quite put together before.”

Sixth Sense, a tool that connects the physical world with the world of data. MIT Media Lab, unveiled Sixth Sense at TED2009.

“Open-innovation models are adopted to overcome the constraints of corporate hierarchies. But successful projects are typically hybrids of ideas flowing from a decentralized crowd and a hierarchy winnowing and making decisions.”

The big media attentions around cloud computing these days is about Google announcement om planning to launch of Google Chrome OS. As Google address this, its for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends.

As we are moving to a new area of PC and data computing known as cloud computing what dose this mean for mobile and Telecom computing?

Data-com and Telecom are much closer and more integrated as ever before and the true meaning of convergence is taking place. In a sense mobile operator networks has always been about cloud mobile computing where we can access voice and value added services like SMS from mobile devices directly connected and which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the mobile network.

Now however this is also entering a new area as companies like Ericsson implementing and managing the entire mobile network on behalf of the mobile network operators. So Ericsson soon will be doing for mobile operators what Amazon has been doing for cloud computing. Recently the company announced that Sprint Nextel will outsource its network to Ericsson in a seven-year deal valued at $4.5 billion to $5 billion.

But how will the mobile landscape change and reshape itself as Amazon is reported to be close to signing an MVNO contract in the UK as it prepares to launch its e-book reader, the Kindle into the European market