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Predicting the Future: Trend Spotting Resources

March 8, 2010

Product Trends and Inspiration

Most people who have been engaged in creativity and innovation, at some point, come to realize that cross pollination and lateral thinking are important sources for creating insights and generating breakthrough solutions to complex problems. I imagine most people have come to rely on particular resources for their inspiration and for providing [...]

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The Future of Business Education

January 25, 2010

There has been a lot written about the rate of change and how the speed of change isn’t going to slow down any time soon. One of the impacts of this condition is the complexity of doing business in any industry or sector of society has increased. This complexity challenges every leader to develop new [...]

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Celebrating Failure (Intelligent Failure that is)

December 3, 2009

The Tata Group is one of India’s most successful and most admired companies.   From its founding in 1868, the company has grown to encompass about 100 different corporate entities, and employs tens of thousands.  The firm’s business units make cars & trucks, steel, tea, electricity, chemicals, consulting services, software, and just about everything else.  You [...]

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Planning for the Unthinkable Through Relentless Innovation

June 29, 2009

Joshua Cooper Ramo’s new book, The Age of the Unthinkable, provides a useful portrait of our difficult times, and an even more useful set of frameworks for how we ought to be dealing with it.
Ramo shares insights he has gathered through dialog with some of what appear to be the world’s most interesting thought leaders [...]

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Honda Foresight

May 4, 2009

I was doing some research the other day on Honda, and I found the following fascinating piece of information:
In a Business Week article from 1992, the head of engine development for Honda is quoted as saying, “We don’t have much time,” referring to the need to develop new, low-emission engine technology.
His assessment of the future [...]

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The Innovation Economy – INGENESIST

February 17, 2009

In this slide deck (embedded below) , Daniel Robles explains his unique vision for an Innovation Economy. His concepts of information, knowledge and innovation shown in the slide above are the driving forces for his Open Source project : Ingenesist – . You can view his presentation on this page or see a larger [...]

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