The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Invoking the Spirit of the Renaissance -- Flow of the Book -- What Got Left Out? -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Field of Polymath Dreams -- Part I: Sprezzatura: The Art of Making the Complex Look Easy -- Chapter 1: The New Polymath: In an Age of "Wicked Problems" and Technology Abundance -- The Modern-Day Technology Polymath -- Our "Grand Challenges" -- An Extinct Species in Our Complex World? -- Leonardo 2.0 -- Don't Forget Michelangelo, Raphael, and . . . -- "Spray Painters" in the New Renaissance -- Less Visible Signs of Our New Renaissance -- Recap -- Chapter 2: Modern-Day Dark Ages: So Much Stagnation -- "Empty Calories" in Infotech -- Lack of Agreement around Cleantech -- Inconsistent Coverage in Healthtech -- Turning the Tide -- Recap -- Chapter 3: Polymath Profile #1: General Electric -- GE Global Research -- Corporate IT -- R&D at a Business Unit -- Business Unit IT -- Recap -- Part II: The R-E-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E Framework: Building Blocks for the New Polymath -- Chapter 4: Residence: Better Technologically Equipped Than the Office -- Southwest Airlines and Consumerization -- Apple and Consumerization -- Rise of the Tech-Savvy Consumer -- Consumerization Impact-Not Just on the High-Tech Industry -- Wait until You See the Next-Generation Consumer -- Technology, Finally, Can Be about Revenue Generation -- Technology as a Competitive Advantage or Disadvantage -- Consumer Sourcing -- Consumer Technology Economics Are Not Just for Consumers -- If You Embed Technology into Your Products, Think Like a Technology Company -- Your Employees Are Tech-Savvy Consumers at Home -- Tech-Savvy Consumer = Smartass Consumer? -- Recap -- Chapter 5: Exotics: Innovation from Left Field -- Women in Technology -- Turn Your Internal Technology into an Asset.

Innovation from Back-Office Processes Like Human Resources -- Innovation from "Game Scores" -- Innovation from "Unconsolidating" Vendor Bases -- Business Model Innovation: Demarketing Your Core Product -- Business Model Innovation: "Make It Up in Years" -- Business Model Innovation: Beyond "Freemium" -- The Silicon Valley Model: Move West, Young Man -- "Trickle-Up" Innovation -- Don't Forget Your Backyard -- Beyond BRICK -- Recap -- Chapter 6: Polymath Profile #2: Cognizant -- The Early Years -- The Structure for Growth -- The Future "Future of Work" -- Recap -- Chapter 7: Networks: Bluetooth to Broadband -- Alexander Bell Is Looking Down in Awe -- Bell Is Also Looking Down in Consternation -- Reinventing the Traditional Telco -- Who Is Willing to Wait for Telcos to Morph Themselves? -- Global Telecom Race -- Innovating the Telecom Supply Chain -- Recap -- Chapter 8: Polymath Profile #3: Plantronics -- Five Decades of Telecommunications -- Consumerization Effect -- Pushing Form/Function Boundaries -- Recap -- Chapter 9: Arsonists: And Other Disruptors -- Myth of Moore's Law -- Learning from the Automobile Service Model -- MAX roam: Disrupting the International Mobile Roaming Market -- Zoho: Disrupting the Microsoft Office Market -- Cartridge World: Disrupting the Printer Ink Market -- Rimini Street: Disrupting Enterprise Software Maintenance Markets -- ZDNet Blogs: Disrupting the Technology "Influencer" Market -- Agresso: Easing Disruptions at Its Customers -- HP and Cisco: Disrupting Each Other's Markets -- When Disruptors Get Disrupted: The Pharmaceuticals Example -- SAP: Trying to Disrupt the Database Market -- Verizon: Disrupting Cable and Other Telcos -- Recap -- Chapter 10: Polymath Profile #4: W. R. Hambrecht -- United Football League -- The Hambrecht Open IPO Process -- Recap -- Chapter 11: Interfaces: For All Our Senses -- The BMW iDrive.

Microsoft Surface Computer -- The Sonos Controller -- The Tablet PC -- Adobe Flash -- Scanners and Bar Codes -- Digitized Information at Source -- Wearable Computers -- The CNN "Magic Wall" -- "SixthSense" -- Voice Recognition -- Digital Smelling and Tasting -- The Brain-Machine Interface -- Unicode and Exotic Scripts -- Recap -- Chapter 12: Sustainability: Delivering to Both the Green and Gold Agendas -- Sustainability and Innovation in Public Policy -- Sustainability and Energy Frugality -- Sustainability and Innovation in Supply Chains -- Sustainability and Innovation in Keeping Score -- Sustainability and Innovation in Education -- Recap -- Chapter 13: Polymath Profile #5: Kleiner Perkins Cleantech -- The Cleantech Market Opportunity -- Portfolio Company: Luca Technologies -- Portfolio Company: Silver Spring Networks -- Portfolio Company: Bloom Energy -- The Shifting Sands -- Recap -- Chapter 14: Singularity: Human-Machine Convergence -- State of Medical Technology -- Internet of Humans and Things -- Medical Cities and High-Tech Villages -- Heartwarming Robots and Heartbreaking Autism -- Personalized Medicine and Personalized Doses -- The Tiny and the Giant: Nanotech and Sensory Databases -- Recap -- Chapter 15: Analytics: Spreadsheets, Search, and Semantics -- The Black Swan Is Not That Rare -- It's the Age of "Big Data" -- Deemphasize Slice and Dice, Reemphasize Decisions -- We Still Have Plenty of Small Data -- Don't Ignore Unstructured Data -- And Then There Is Web and Social Data -- This Much Data Equals Better Visualization Tools -- This Much Data Equals Massive Storage Requirements -- This Much Data Equals Predictive Powers -- Recap -- Chapter 16: Polymath Profile #6: National Hurricane Center -- Data Sources and Models -- Data Products -- Continuous Improvement -- Recap.

Chapter 17: Networks Again: Communities, Crowds, Contracts, and Collaboration -- Aren't Communities a Relic from Communism? -- Enter Social Customer Relationship Management -- "Ding-Dong, It's the Avon Lady" -- Starbucks' Pledge 5 -- First Generation of "True Customer Interaction" Applications -- You Call This a Light Application? -- Nobody Ever Accused SAP of Being a Light Application -- "Genomes" of Communities and Crowds -- We Are Supposed to Rely on Love and Glory in Our Talent? -- Then There Are Contracted Crowds, Better Known as Outsourcing -- It's a Plane, It's a Bird . . . It's an Outsourcer? -- What's Accenture Doing with Lego? -- Employees Are Still a Major Talent Category -- How Do All These Talent Pools Collaborate? -- But . . . Collaboration Is Mostly Unstructured! -- Recap -- Chapter 18: Clouds: Technology-as-a-Service -- Microsoft's Cloud Infrastructure -- DeVry in the Cloud -- NetSuite's Macro View from the Clouds -- Bessemer's Investments in the Cloud -- Appirio: Clouds for Clients and for Itself -- PaaS, as in Leapfrog -- Schumacher Group and the Network Effect -- Private versus Public Clouds -- Altimeter Group: Born in the Cloud -- Recap -- Chapter 19: Polymath Profile #7: salesforce.com -- Democracy in Action -- Transparency as Market Advantage -- Religious Wars -- Recap -- Chapter 20: Ethics: In an Age of Cyberwar and Cloning -- Discussion 1: Florida and Biofuels -- Herman Tavani: Ethical Computing -- Discussion 2: GPS and Routing Traffic through Family Neighborhoods -- Gregory Call: The Law and Technology Spawned Ethical Issues -- Discussion 3: Neelie Kroes, Former EU Commissioner for Competition -- Governments and Our "Wicked Problems" -- Discussion 4: Google's Ethics -- Professor Batya Friedman: Value Sensitive Design -- Discussion 5: Environmental Trade-offs -- Erik Keller: Technology Can Learn from Horticulture.

Discussion 6: Isaac Asimov and Rules for Robots -- Troy Angrignon: Learning from Hari Seldon -- Discussion 7: Genetic Markers and Prophylactic Treatments -- Technology and Work/Life Balance -- Discussion 8: The "Patently Absurd" Patent System -- Brian Sommer: Where Are the 10 Commandments of Technology? -- Recap -- Part III: Grooming Your Own New Polymath -- Chapter 21: Polymath Profile #8: BP CTO -- CTO "Toolkit" -- CTO Philosophy -- CTO Team -- The "Ecosystem" -- Recap -- Chapter 22: Moon Shots for Budding Polymaths -- Michelangelo: Stretch the Stretch Goals -- Leonardo: Live by the Ethos of "And" Not "Or" -- Plato: Think Big, Act Small -- Hypatia: Explore Exotic -- Shen Kuo: Exploit the Power of N -- Thomas Jefferson: Hone Your Serendipity "Sensors" -- Benjamin Franklin: Benchmark Often and Wide -- Isaac Newton: Leapfrog-Build on Baselines -- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi: Stay Humble -- Aristotle: Embed Ethics in Innovation Plans -- And the Sidebar Conversations -- Epilogue: The Beginner's Mind -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index.