I had a bit of a shock today as I was shopping at Prada, my brand of choice. As I was trying on a new suit I looked at the flat screen panel in the changing room, and noticed something very strange. The main store had a bunch of screens with generally cool videos. The [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 4, 2008
Geoffrey Moore @ WEF Innovation 10
It is 845 am in Palo Alto and I am just about to be interviewed by GM on innovation in practice. My fellow interviewees are from Innocentive and Salesforce.com.
My comments will be on:
Is innovation art or science – in my view, we can now make it more like a science
The secrets are counter intuitive – [...]
September 3, 2008
World Economic Forum Innovation 100 meeting in Palo Alto
I am having an excellent time contributing at the WEF event on innovation. This morning’s breakout session was on clusters, regional areas where there is high levels of connected innovation. Our group, led by Navi Radjou of Forrester Research, considered an optimistic scenario for Bangalore in India.
I just finished a great session on Innovation Talent, [...]
September 3, 2008
Money, money, money – how an emergent business area shapes up
My company, Imaginatik, has had some great months recently. The reason for my post though is not, amazingly, to blow our trumpet. It was more an observation on the state of the emergent industry of software applications that tap into the brainpower of thousands to support innovation and collaborative problem solving, and a warning to [...]
September 3, 2008
Beware of laying off IT administrators?? Held to Ransom by IT!
Sitting on a BA flight from London to San Francisco, I was disheartened to read a sidebar article in the Daily Telegraph: “Beware of Laying off IT Administrators”. According to Cyber-Ark, an identify management firm, 88% of IT administrators would “steal valuable and sensitive company information” if they were laid off. Are you kidding!
In the [...]
