Successful failure and the Economics of Innovation
Ever thought about a typology of failure? Or that failure is actually a step to success? There was a full panel on thinking through the role of failure in innovation including Amy Edmondson from Harvard Business School, Kris Halvorsen, Chief Innovation Officer of Intuit, Judy Estrin, Author of “Closing the Innovation Gap” and former CFO […]
The end of health care as we know it!
Michael Porter and Clay Christensen, two Harvard business school professors (via video link) meet 3 CEOs of Health Care businesses/foundations in dialogue at the Fresh Thinking: Innovation conference. Clay Christensen, Professor, Harvard; Michael Porter, Professor, Harvard; George Halvorson, CEO, Kaiser Permanente; Mark Smith, CEO, California HealthCare Foundation; and Andrew Thompson, Co-founder and CEO of Proteus […]
Flashes of genius…
Andreas Kluth. Scott Berkun. Paola Antonelli. Sprinkled through the conference were mini sessions — usually about 10 minutes long — which were called “Flash of genius”. I really liked this idea — it provided a good break from the panels and interviews and you could focus on only one person providing a specific perspective on […]
Innovation and the future of the US economy…
Christina Romer, Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors is a very articulate and direct woman. She is a UC Berkeley Economics professor and this “interview” took place at 5:15pm after a long conference day — but we were all mesmerized by this session. Greg Ip, the US Economics Editor for the Economist […]
More Fresh Thinking —
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Trust is the new black? Pessimism is the new black? Moore’s Law. The World is not Flat? Jazz and innovation. Am at SFO. Air Canada does it again. Almost 2 hours late. But time to catch up on yesterday’s conference fare and maybe even get into reporting on today. Given that […]
Fresh Thinking for the Ideas Economy — Part 1
Global Innovation. Techno-utopia. Flashes of genius. Social entrepreneurship. Innovation and the future of the US Economy. All these topics were packed into the first day of The Ideas Economy: Innovation conference at Berkeley co-hosted by The Economist and the Haas Business School at Berkeley. Program can be found at: http://ideas.economist.com/content/programme The Economist is setting up […]
Design Means Business Workshop
What is this design + business idea really about? And what are the processes and tools that are useful to business students and business leaders as they expand their thinking tool-kits? What is the value-add of design thinking to business? Last Friday afternoon, the Design Means Business Workshop explored these questions with ~130 full and […]
Design Driven Innovation
…changing the rules of competition by radically innovating what things mean. Back to some blogs on the Big Rethink. While participants in the Economist conference were mainly from the UK, there were a few North Americans (2-3) and one Italian –Roberto Verganti, author and Professor of Management of Innovation at the Politecnico di Milano. Roberto’s […]
Shifting business…liberating magic
Nick Jankel, Collaborative Innovation Pioneer, Media Philosopher and CEO was one of the provocative speakers at The Big Rethink. His session was titled: HOW TO COLLABORATE TO SOLVE BUSINESS’ BIGGEST PROBLEMS Nick talked about how technological and social trends are opening up new possibilities for companies to solve problems, and why in his experience, this […]
Building new businesses & business models
Day two of The Big Rethink started out with sessions built around “Fresh Thinking about Business Models”. Grant Thornton were commissioned by the Economist Intelligence Unit to ask the question: “Do existing business models still deliver the goods?” Terry Black, Partner at Grant Thornton reported on the key findings which were actually a bit depressing. […]