Appointment: Tampa Bay National Defense Industry Association (NDIA) Board (October 16 2006 )
In October, 2006 Guy Hagen was elected to the Tampa Bay chapter of the National Defense Industry Association’s (NDIA) “Member at Large” board position. The responsibilities of the Member at Large include representing the interests of small defense and technology businesses.
Disclaimer (September 27 2006 )
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Working Paper: Social Capital, or Choosing Your Friends Wisely (August 26 2006 )
“Social capital” is becoming a buzzword in many sectors. This working paper compiles a number of presentations, instructional certification course material, and research that Innovation Insight has done regarding social capital. The paper introduces how the concept of social capital can be applied and measured to weave targeted networks that can be leveraged for [...]
Research: Corporate Headquarters (August 16 2006 )
Innovation Insight has been retained in 2006 by Enterprise Florida Inc. to assess Florida’s competitiveness regarding corporate headquarters of all sizes. The research will include state benchmarking, a review of economic development incentives, statewide consensus building regarding recruitment and attraction strategies, and a formal application to have “headquarters” classified as a Florida “high-impact” designated [...]
Partnership: Arrowstrike (August 11 2006 )
Innovation Insight has formed a strategic collaboration with financial services research giant Dalbar to offer specialized market research services to Florida’s banking, insurance, securities, and financial companies under the name “Arrowstrike“. This collaboration delivers the perfect combination of flexibility, responsiveness, reputation and capacity for its services including:
Surveys
Focus Groups
Consumer Confidence
Service Quality
Interviews
Benchmarking
Relationship Management
Market Trends
Organizational Network Analysis
In-House [...]
Structural Division: Permuting Network Structures to Explore Hidden Equivalence (June 11 2006 )
This paper develops and describes a new network permutation method designed to enhance the utility of structural equivalence metrics in organizational and social network analysis. This method may be particularly useful in understanding industry supply chain networks where categorization may be hindered by vertical integration and horizontal integration structures of large companies, or where [...]
Citation: The Social Life of Routers (June 11 2006 )
Valdis Krebs is the President of Orgnet and a fellow researcher in the field of social network analysis. On 2004, he published an article in the Cisco Internet Protocol Journal entitled “The Social Life of Routers” which applies network analytical methods to identifying ideal internet backbone topologies to be most resistant to malicious attacks. [...]
Press: Metro Orlando Film, Digital Media and Entertainment Productivity Research (June 11 2006 )
In 2003 and 2005, the Metro Orlando Film and Entertainment Commission tasked Innovation Insight to conduct its survey of companies, trends, productivity and growth in this sector. The following media covered the research (links go to articles):
Orlando [...]
Press:2004 Florida’s Financial Services Cluster Research (June 11 2006 )
Between 2004 and 2005, Innovation Insight led a large statewide effort to document the non-retail financial services industry sector in Florida. The following media covered the research effort and results (links go to articles). More information about the research can be found at FinancialFlorida.com.
Tampa Bay Business Journal, December 05 2005: “Effort seeks to [...]
Press: 2004 Baseline Analysis of Offshoring in the Tampa Bay Region (June 11 2006 )
Innovation Insight’s research to understand the impacts and trends surrounding the practice of offshore outsourcing generated considerable interest and attention. These are some of the media that covered the research (links go to articles):
MSNBC, October 25 2004: “Perception of Outsourcing Worse”
Tampa [...]