From the Publisher:
A Polymath - the Greek word for Renaissance Man - is someone who excels in many disciplines. The New Polymath is an enterprise comfortable with multiple technologies and is packaging multiple different strands of infotech, cleantech, healthtech to create innovative new products and solutions. The book showcases 11 "building blocks" - next-generation interfaces, cloud computing, sustainability, disruptive economics and others - that these New Polymaths are leveraging. The chapters reflect interviews and profiles of over a hundred innovators, their products and their projects. Eight case studies - BP CTO, Cognizant. GE, Kleiner Perkins' cleantech, National Hurricane Center, Plantronics, salesforce.com, and W.R. Hambrecht - show how enterprises are leveraging these building blocks to innovate in a wide range of technologies to solve day to day issues and the "Grand Challenges" the world faces.