Future of Tech with Guy Kawasaki by Innovation Hub. The New Model for Innovation Is Social. Most business leaders are by now aware that the growing use of mobile phones is changing the competitive landscape for all companies, no matter what the industry.
The extent of those changes is greater than most appreciate, however. They include entirely new methods of designing products and completely revamped methods for selling them. They also involve a fundamentally reinvented relationship with customers: To be precise, the customers are now the boss. Those were some of the key ideas that emerged from a recent conference — “How Mobile and Social Are Transforming Innovation Models: Flipping the Paradigm?”
— hosted by Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the school’s San Francisco campus. ‘Everything flows’ turns out to be more than poetic. Every once in a while, I am blindsided by a powerful idea I have never encountered before.
I am surprised on two levels: first, I’m surprised by the torque of the idea, and second, I’m astonished that I hadn’t encountered the idea before. The World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (THEWSIE) - www.thewsie.org. Thomas dolby. AICD: Fast, Frictionless & On Fire. Introduction We are now in the midst of a wave of business disruption which has no historical precedent. Every industry, every market segment and every business is being affected. High-Growth Entrepreneurs Setting Pace for Revenue Growth and Job Creation Says Ernst & Young LLP. James Mwangi of Kenya’s Equity Bank named Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012. MONTE CARLO, 10 JUNE 2012 - Dr.
James Mwangi, CEO and Managing Director of Kenya's Equity Bank Limited was tonight named the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 at an awards ceremony held in Monte Carlo's Salle des Etoiles. James was picked from among the 59 country finalists vying for the title across 51 countries, each of whom had already been named the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year in their home country. Equity Bank is the largest bank by customer base in East and Central Africa and the largest African majority owned company in the region. The bank has more than seven million accounts representing over half of all bank accounts in Kenya. It also has operations in Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Tanzania. World Entrepreneur Of The Year - Overview. Monte Carlo will be the stage as over 60 of the world’s best entrepreneurs vie for the title of EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ on 4-8 June.
For the 14th year, we celebrate the energy and ideas these award-winning entrepreneurs bring to advance our economies and generate positive change. Speakers and thought-provoking sessions are being added to the agenda below as we gear up for this year’s event, so please check back often to see the latest. (3) Micro Employment website where people share what they can do for $5, $10 Sold at $60,000. The Potency of Mass Collaboration by guest blogger Dawna MacLean. This is a post by Dawna MacLean, a person of immense talent and passion.
She has repeatedly developed and implemented successful business strategies that have resulted in sustained revenue growth, increased margins, decreased operational costs and improved customer experience. Technology is a Choice. I have a confession to make: I’m not really very techie.
I still read books on paper and don’t see myself getting a Kindle. I only recently picked up an iPad and I have absolutely no idea what to do with Instagram or Pinterest. Managing Innovation is about Managing Change. Innovation is about change.
Companies that successfully innovate in a repeatable fashion have one thing in common – they are good at managing change. Now, change comes from many sources, but when it comes to innovation, the main sources are incremental innovation and disruptive innovation. TEDGlobal 2012: 'The more you give away the more you get back' First there was "open" – open source, open tech, open journalism.
And now? Prepare yourself for "radical openness". This, according to Bruno Giussani, the European director of TED, the annual ideafests in California and Edinburgh, and its online offshoot TED Talks, is one step beyond mere ordinary openness. And it must be true. Or at least, it has been true for TED. Five years ago, the company, a non-profit foundation owned by Chris Anderson, an English publishing entrepreneur, was a single, very successful but highly exclusive ideas summit, held once a year in California. "We started by giving away our content. How The Micro-Everything Revolution Will Drive Social Change. This piece is from PopTech Editions II--Small is beautiful: The micro-everything revolution, which explores the dynamics that shape the micro-everything trend, from design and engineering for radical affordability to overcoming hurdles to distribution.
Visit PopTech for more interviews, essays and videos with leading thinkers on this subject. Today, there are two kinds of curves shaping technological progress. Their interplay will frame the micro-everything revolution for decades to come--and with it, our efforts to alleviate poverty, build resilience, and drive social change. Hacking Home: Coliving Reinvents the Commune for a Networked Age.