Innovation
I’m Going Mobile
While not all that impressed with the iPad from a features standpoint (it does seem to be an oversized iPhone OS), you have to hand it to Apple for creating another revenue model off of its platform. The primary takeaway for me was Jobs defining and claiming ownership of the mobile device market [...]
Growth through Disruptive Innovation
Takeaways on a speech by C. K. Prahalad speaker at the World Innovation Forum.
So we are beginning to see the impact of current economic crisis. The bad news is there is going to be significantly more regulation in the future but the good news is there is a tremendous access to global talent like we [...]
You can’t Restructure your Way to Transformation
Takeaways on a speech by Dr Vijay Govindarajan speaker at the World Innovation Forum.
When you visualize your strategic plans visualize your plans in 3 boxes:
Box 1 – Managing the Present
Box 2 – Forgetting the Past
Box 3 – Creating the Future
Most organizations over focus on Box 1! And strategy is really about Box 2 and Box [...]
Connecting to customers using emotion
A case study on how GlaxoSmithKline is building an emotional strategy in its business
GSK was represented by Donna J Sturgess at the World Innovation Forum
Now more than ever before emotion is saturating buying decisions and marketing needs to tap into this and use new ways to research and connect with customers.
A recent study determined:
15% of [...]
Change is Never Linear
Notes from a speech by Paul Saffo, Professor from Stamford University, the opening speaker at the World Innovation Forum.
Any interesting change looks like an S curve – except in Silicon Valley where it looks like a hockey stick
The ghost behind the S curve is Moore’s law – i.e. the number of circuits that [...]