Open innovation: an interview with Henry Chesbrough. Henry Chesbrough is the key-speaker at the 14th B2B Marketing Conference on 5th june 2012 and on this occasion, the Social Economic Council of Flanders had an interview for the SERV-magazine of June 2012.
In recognition of his contribution to the Flemish debate on open innovation, we publish here the English version. Apple finally finds new Head of Retail: Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts. Will begin in Spring 2014, run Online Stores too. Apple today announced that it has finally filled the role of Senior Vice President of Retail: the Cupertino tech giant has hired Angela Ahrendts.
Ahrendts is leaving her role as CEO of fashion retailer Burberry to take the top Apple retail job. Ahrendts will also lead Apple’s online stores. She will officially begin her role in Spring 2014. Hyperloop. When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too.
How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL – doing incredible things like indexing all the world’s knowledge and putting rovers on Mars – would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world? Note, I am hedging my statement slightly by saying “one of”. The head of the California high speed rail project called me to complain that it wasn’t the very slowest bullet train nor the very most expensive per mile.
How To See The Future, Today. A rabbi, a priest and a cop walk into a bar…well, that’s not exactly how it begins—more like 3 business leadership teams walk into a conference room: one that heads up a mid-sized aluminum company, another that runs a niche software company, and a third that’s responsible for growing a very unique carpet manufacturing operation.
They have never worked together before, but they share a common interest—they’ve gone through the traditional SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis, they’ve put their best minds on their strategic competitive analysis, they’ve integrated forecast models into their planning. Global 2013: Think Again. TEDGlobal 2013 Latest Updates What is TEDGlobal 2013?
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a small conference in 1984, TED has grown to support world-changing ideas with multiple conferences, the TED Prize, and our TED Talks videos. At TED, the world's leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TEDGlobal 2013 brings together a program of speakers who challenge us to pause for an instant and Think Again.
Watch and Link Disparate IdeasThink Jar Collective. Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovation: Debra Kaye: 9780071808217: Amazon.com. Explaining the 8-fields model - GamingWorks. Many organizations have invested heavily in training and certification, or more lately as the trends indicate – in serious games and gamification.
All in an attempt to change behavior and improve performance. Offerings. Open Services Innovation. Section » Open Services Innovation Open Innovation: Key Competitive Factor for Banks The Crowdsourcing.org website reports that the potential that open innovation yields for banks has been captured in a new study released by GFT, a leading international IT solutions providers to the financial sector. It’s increasingly important for financial institutions to differentiate themselves with innovative products and services–including Comments Off • Read this story » More Articles The Economics Of Open Source An article on the Tech Crunch website reported that the success of technology companies using open source, and the apparent failure of open source is a head scratcher. Comments Off • Read this story » Henry Chesbrough: The World in 2014 The Economist website posted an article which noted that Cassandra has every reason to fear innovation.
Comments Off • Read this story » Can technology improve business innovation? Comments Off • Read this story » Talking #Open Innovation with Prof. Cynefin. The various domains of the Cynefin model.
Cynefin /ˈkʌnɨvɪn/ is a Welsh word, which is commonly translated into English as 'habitat' or 'place', although this fails to convey its full meaning. The term was chosen by the Welsh scholar Dave Snowden to describe a perspective on the evolutionary nature of complex systems, including their inherent uncertainty ("The Cynefin framework"). The name serves as a reminder that all human interactions are strongly influenced and frequently determined by our experiences, both through the direct influence of personal experience, as well as through collective experience, such as stories or music. The framework provides a typology of contexts that guides what sort of explanations or solutions might apply.
It draws on research into complex adaptive systems theory, cognitive science, anthropology, and narrative patterns, as well as evolutionary psychology, to describe problems, situations, and systems. Meaning of the word[edit] History[edit] See also[edit] Sub title: what we can learn from other industries. Jump start your creative efforts.
Next practice. While being acutely aware of established organisational theory and practice, Yoda seeks out and invents ‘next practice’ – experimental ways of working that could become established practice in the future. Quote - good vs great, best vs next. Best Practices Vs. Next Practices: Are You Looking Forward or Backward? Over my career, I have been coached by bosses, mentors, and colleagues that successful businesses build their business strategies upon best practices.
Business people have often considered introduction of a new best practice as thought leadership. My question is should business leaders focus on developing best practices, which are based upon the past, or should they be thinking ahead? Looking Forward or Backward? Column: Best Practices Get You Only So Far.
21 ways cross industry inspiration. Cross sector info. Book: Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition: Stephen M. Shapiro. Why Best Practices are (not Always) Stupid. X-ind pictures. www.zuehlke.com/uploads/tx_zepublications/124_cd_european_ceo_cross_innovation.pdf.