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In search of the next "killer app": we can no longer envision the future by extrapolating the present.(internet business applications)
Publication: MIT Sloan Management Review Publication Date: 22-JUN-05 Author: Austin, Robert D. ; Nolan, Richard L.
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Sloan Management Review
He probably wouldn't, but Robert Taylor could lay claim to being the best-ever manager of innovation. In the late 1960s, Taylor headed the office at the Advanced Research Projects Agency that oversaw implementation of the first four nodes of the Internet. He then moved to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he presided over a group that, in a period of just a few years, invented, or developed into useful form, technologies that now account for an astonishing chunk of the market capitalization in the computer industry. Still, Taylor today replies impatiently when people suggest that the Internet...
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