“Indian design companies will continue to move up the value chain by increasingly accomplishing the entire design instead of doing piecemeal design work.
Interesting. Looks like Samsonite is making a move in India with their Black Label luxury line by opening 50 new stores by year end. That’s a 30% increase in their stores worldwide.
Could India lead design in Asia? We shall see.
The WORLD INNOVATION FORUM is the only event of its kind to discuss innovation from a 360-degree perspective, focusing on the competitive advantage to be gained from embedding innovation as a core competency of the organization.
Sounds impressive. Here is a list of speakers:
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN, Harvard professor and bestselling author of: Seeing What’s Next, The Innovator’s Dilemma, and The Innovator’s Solution “Disruptive Innovation: The Dynamics of Creative Organizations”
MALCOLM GLADWELL, author of two New York Times #1 bestsellers: The Tipping Point and Blink “Marketing & Innovation”
RENEE MAUBORGNE, co-author of the highly acclaimed Blue Ocean
Strategy and professor at INSEAD
“Blue Ocean Strategy: Designing a Winning Strategy”
*RAY KURZWEIL, pioneering futurist and one of the most provocative thinkers on technology’s future impact “Science, Technology, and Invention: Strategies to Create the Future”
*LYN HEWARD, Cirque du Soleil’s Executive Producer for Special Projects “Igniting the Spark of Creativity and Keeping It Alive”
*VINT CERF, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and widely known as the “founding father” of the Internet “Building the Next-Generation Internet”
*MICHAEL THIENEMAN, Global Innovation Sponsor, Executive Vice President, and Chief Technology Officer at Whirlpool “Whirlpool’s Innovation Journey”
*RICK RASHID, Microsoft’s Senior Vice President of Research “Research, Product Development, and Future Technologies”
No TOM KELLEY? Perhaps they are not ready for it yet. Hopefully next year.
It looks like innovation is a business imperative for 2007.
“Innovation has long been regarded as a buzzword enthusiastically discussed in boardrooms, but with the rise of the Creativity Economy, innovation is top-of-mind for decision makers… The emergence of the empowered consumer means that companies can no longer just talk about innovation as a strategic imperative. They must seek new ways to live it by involving the consumer and integrating innovation into their corporate DNA.”
Wow! DNA? What does this mean exactly? Flip on a switch and innovation happens, right? Not likely. I can’t wait to see how this shakes out; if anything they are starting to realize that innovation does not happen in a board room. Hey, it’s a start. Opening the flood gates for (new) status quo busters to enter the company is going to be interesting to see happen (if their intent is real). Perhaps the people they hired to be good corporate citizens will just become natural born innovators and break the rules because the board thinks it’s important. Hmm?
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Well, Copernicus’ birthday came and went (Feb. 19th) and I am sure it was a fleeting thought at best for 99.99% of the world. I was only made aware of it because I subscribe to Wired News.
It immediately reminded me of a great book on the origins of the Universe by Simon Singh (The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe). The author does a great job highlighting the people behind the theories, technological breakthroughs and stages of status quo (religious and scientific) without getting muddled too much in science. From Aristarchus, the fifth century BC Ancient Greek astronomer who theorized a sun centered Universe, to the COBE Project, which provided the evidence (CMB radiation variations) to scientifically prove the Big Bang theory in 1992, you can get your arms around what it took to prove something so complex.
The creativity, determination and insanity of people (Aristarchus, Copernicus, Kelper, Einstein, Alpher, etc.) to just go out and disprove reality (i.e. Earth centered Universe) without having or waiting for the necessary technology (i.e. Telescope) is inspiring. There wasn’t an “It can’t be done,” or “Why bother?” in their minds. They simply could not help themselves and spent their lives doing the best they could with whatever means they had. In doing so, they pushed the limits of technology by inspiring others to come up with better ways of seeing and measuring (i.e. Galileo, Hubble, Smoot). Who wouldn’t want to help some 15 year old kid, which happened to be Einstein in this case, figure out whether or not he or she could see himself in the mirror when traveling the speed of light?
One thing is for sure, there are no limits to creativity and we were all put here to ask more questions than provide answers. So what is your Big Bang?
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