The slides present some of the research from a new book, The New Polymath - which is excerpted and reviewed at www.thenewpolymath.com . Polymath is Greek for Renaissance Person good at many disciplines. It's about how enterprises are learning to put together 3,5, 15 strands of infotech, cleantech, biotech etc to create compound innovations - new algorithms, new energy and new medicine

1. AND not OR The Innovator’s Expanding Technology Palette Vinnie Mirchandani www.florence20.typepad.com

2. The glorious tech “consumerization” decade "I would rather compete with Sony than compete in another product category with Microsoft” - Steve Jobs, 2001

3. Not just Apple, of course

4. “ The Den is mightier than the Board” a flight path – one from a passenger GPS on the flight; the other from a tracking website ..neither from the airline itself ..and available to passenger for “near free” Every industry has similar examples

5. But, in meantime, our global “Grand Challenges” have grown

11. AND not OR even in more routine activities Software, datacenters, massively shared application mgt, upgrades – one contract Software-as-a-Service Landline, VoIP, mobile calls, streaming music, mic/noise tech and fashion trends Headsets Day 1 – HD TV, yellow first down line, blogs; various player tech US Football league Complex services from Argentina, Canada, Egypt Hungary, India, Philippines “ Follow The Sun” IT/BPO Services

12. Even more AND not OR Scanners, check and balance software, access to drug libraries, next-gen displays Infusion Pump System Visual, audio, haptic interfaces to driver and passengers iDrive console Next-gen solar film, electric vehicles, smart grid networks, fuel cells Cleantech portfolio Predictive analytics, sensory networks, 3D Visualization, Innovation ecosystem CTO Innovation Group

14. AND not OR in data visualization

16. The New Polymaths deserve more of our attention 704 followers 5.7 million followers

17. They deserve more of our ink and our “link love” The 1528 classic about European Renaissance mentions Da Vinci only twice.. … and also covers many contemporary giants like Michelangelo and Raphael We similarly need to spread our attention beyond Apple, Facebook etc