What a wonderful word to describe the lack of innovation and creativity in business and organisations. In a recent IdeaCast, Umair Haque explains how business in the current downturn fail because they fail to truly renew themselves. Instead they innovate by reapplying outdated innovations to existing products, patching dated models rather than totally rethinking their products in a twenty first century context. These businesses end up being unresponsive or zombie like to the changing world around them – an example of this is the car industry where the concept of cars is not rethought but rather cars are adapted with older technologies.
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Zombieconomy
Sunday, April 19th, 2009Oh that magic feeling.
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Recently, I have been really frustrated with downloading files from the internet, as the combination of Windows Vista, McAfee and a D-Link router does not seem to be a match made for continuity – downloads constantly seem to break off and time our 
I have specifically had problems downloading podcasts through iTunes, but also just downloading large files.Finally, this evening it suddenly dawned on me that using a freeware, I might be able to resume broken download and eventually get my podcasts down in full length 
I found a small but so far extremely useful application called FlashGet which seems to do the job – wonderful. Wonderful this magic feeling of finding a simple workaround after spending days trying to sort out the issues by updating hardware firmware etc. to no effect. Isn’t it great to get these small breakthroughs I can even download the Simon Lynge album that I have bought NovaTunes without worrying about having only 5 attempts.