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I’ve come to the realisation that there are no good forums for folk trying to understand what new operational models and opportunities the current technological and business environments might offers us. Somewhere to toss back and forth new ways of solving problems, not just incremental improvements on what was done in the past. Somewhere inclusive enough to involve small, medium and large businesses, and not just start ups.
Rather than continuing to complain about this to friends over beers, I thought I might see if I can start one.
Tags: Business-Technology
Deloitte were kind enough to invite me to present last week at the Melbourne leg of their regular CIO forum. The topic was innovation in IT.
The Innovative CIO: taking the core to the edge
Innovation strikes both dread and elation into the heart of the CIO. How does the CIO embrace and deploy rapid technology changes without falling into the trap of project plans and corporate regulation?
Tags: 2012, Apple, Bull, CIO Forum, Deloitte, Innovation, iPhone, iPod, Jean-Luc Godard, Jetstar, Picasso, Tom Fryer
I’ll be involved in the panel discussions at the next InnoFuture Momentum on October 13th, 3:30pm to 6:30pm, in Telstra’s Executive Briefing Centre, Level 18, 35 Collins Street, Melbourne.
We are all fascinated by the future. The future always looks brighter. The prospect of a promotion, developing a winning product or promotion, bigger budget, new government incentive … tomorrow, next quarter, next year … If we realise that there is no future, only what we do today, we can focus on innovation that will result in a better future. Risk, courage, learning from parallel industries and cultures, harnessing our talents… Thinking with an open mind how to create a better world …
The events is structured around a series of industry panels, one of which I’m responsible for.
Innovation has been seen as an arms race—the race for more ideas, more content, more investment, more involvement. If we can see more ideas, get access to more content, get more of our team involved, if we can get it earlier in its lifecycle, then we might be the ones with first mover advantage. However, modern communications technology means than ideas are no longer scarce but freely available. New generation media empires, such as TED, have industrialised the idea collection process, creating vast idea smorgasbords for us to graze on. Today’s challenge is synthesis: understanding what problems are interesting, selecting the ideas which add value to a solution (as not all ideas are created equal), and then bringing together these ideas to create something new. How do we step out of the ideas arms race, creating the space and time our team need to synthesize these new, innovative ideas when presented with a challenge?
We also have an interesting group of participants on the panels (including myself):
- Ilya Joel-Pitcher, EDS a HP Company
- Mark Toomey, Infonomics
- Hafeez Bana, Deloitte
- Nicole Keating, GHD
- Neville Christie, CEO Institute, Innovation Group, and discussion moderator
Hope to see you there!
Tags: CEO Institute, Cognition, communications technology, creativity, HP, IDEA, Idealism, Ilya Joel-Pitcher, InnoFuture, Innovation, Innovation Group, media empires, Melbourne, Mind, Neville Christie, Nicole Keating, ontology, Philosophy of mind, Telstra, Telstra's Executive Briefing Centre, Thought, winning product
I’ll be speaking at InnoFuture Momentum on August 5th, 3:30pm to 6:30pm, in Telstra’s Executive Briefing Centre, Level 18, 35 Collins Street, Melbourne.
InnoFuture Momentum is a dedicated network for innovation professionals to Connect, Attract and Adapt.
The topic for the event is Ahead of trends — the random effect.
When a concept becomes a trend, you are a not the leader. How to tap into valuable ideas for products, services and communication before they are seen as trends, when they are just … random? Albert Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge. Let’s open the doors and let the imagination in for it seems that in the current crisis, the right brain is winning and we may be rationalized to death before things get better.
I’ll be speaking about Of snow mobiles and childhood readers: why random isn’t, and how to make it work for you.
There’s an interesting roster of speakers:
- MC & Host: Leonie Valentine, GM, Customer Experience Marketing, Telstra Industry Panel: Diverse industry perspectives will be presented to provide a balanced insight into this important thought leadership topic.
- Drew Ginn, OAM, ‘Oarsome Foursome’ : The future is now: what are the random moments for professional high performance.
- Elizabeth Rudd, FutureNous: Picking up weak signals – why are they valuable in making future decisions and how to tune in.
- Charlie Nelson, Foresee Change: random numbers… yes, but there is no such thing as ‘random’… the patterns associated with the wisdom of crowds … and how you can the wisdom of crowds work for you
- Peter Evans-Greenwood: Of snow mobiles and childhood readers: why random isn’t, and how to make it work for you.
- Discussion Moderator: Amantha Imber, Inventium: Latest Australian Author of a business bestseller ‘The Creativity Formula’ (soon to be released).
The event wraps up with an interactive discussion and networking. Walk away with inspiration & ideas to implement. Meet other corporate innovators and innovation evangelists. Share ideas over a drink! Experience the stimulating environment of the high-tech Telstra Executive Briefing Centre.
Hope to see you there!
Tags: Albert Einstein, Australia, Author, Charlie Nelson, Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Drew Ginn, Economy of Australia, Elizabeth Rudd, Executive Briefing Centre, G.M. (General Motors), InnoFuture, Innovation, Leonie Valentine, Melbourne, Mobile phone companies, Peter Evans-Greenwood, Randomness, Telsta, Telstra, Telstra's Executive Briefing Centre
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