Monthly Archives: February 2009
I had the good fortune to attend Regina Lewis’ webinar yesterday on “Adopting an Innovation Strategy”, and will now share some of the notes, quotes, and key insights I was able to capture.Please NOTE: Because these are notes, they may be a little rough, but I’ve done my best to clean them up.Regina Lewis, Ph.D., Vice President of Consumer Insights for InterContinental Hotels Group, wrapped up this informative webinar with her discussion on the impact of adopting an innovation strategy and its benefits to InterContinental Hotels.Here are some of Regina Lewis’ thoughts:We operate in a franchised environment, and when we come up with any new innovation or update, we have to sell that into the franchisees.I oversee our innovation insights and innovation research work.We cannot ignore radical innovations as incremental innovations may be ignored by customers.We always begin looking at true unmet consumer needs:We look at secondary research with “futurists”We … Continue reading
I had the good fortune to attend Tim’s webinar today on “Future Catalysts of Innovation”, and will now share some of the notes, quotes, and key insights I was able to capture.Please NOTE: Because these are notes, they may be a little rough, but I’ve done my best to clean them up.Tim Jones, Ph.D., author of Innovating at the Edge, (published by Butterworth Heinemann) and Managing Director of Innovaro, a division of UTEK, will discuss the future catalysts of innovation.Here are some of Tim Jones’ thoughts:Where are organizations now starting to place their bets?In this economic environment, people tend to switch back to short-term thinking and focus on making a quick buckHow do we overcome the uncertainty?Many of our clients focus on differentiating between what is possibly going to happen versus what is probably going to happen.It is important for people to not only look from the Market Now to … Continue reading
I had the good fortune to attend Gary Hamel’s webinar today on “Innovation in Rough Times”, and will now share some of the notes, quotes, and key insights I was able to capture.Please NOTE: Because these are notes, they may be a little rough, but I’ve done my best to clean them up.Gary Hamel has been called the world’s most influential business thinker by the Wall Street Journal, and his latest book, The Future of Management, was published by the Harvard Business School Press in October 2007 and was selected by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year. Gary Hamel was a founder of Strategos, which was acquired by UTEK in 2008. Here are some of Gary Hamel’s thoughts:The tide is running out and the only way for companies to outperform their competition and market expectations is to continue to innovate.The companies that win will have to create … Continue reading
Hello all,Tomorrow I have been invited to attend the $199 UTEK webinar on “Innovation in Tough Times” and I will bring you the key insights from Gary Hamel, Tim Jones, Regina Lewis following the event.”Renowned business strategist Professor Gary Hamel will present the inaugural topic, “Innovation in Tough Times,” on Tuesday, February 17th, at 1:00 PM EST. Gary Hamel has been called the world’s most influential business thinker by the Wall Street Journal, and his latest book, The Future of Management, was published by the Harvard Business School Press in October 2007 and was selected by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year. Gary Hamel was a founder of Strategos, which was acquired by UTEK in 2008. Tim Jones, Ph.D., author of Innovating at the Edge, (published by Butterworth Heinemann) and Managing Director of Innovaro, a division of UTEK, will discuss the future catalysts of innovation. Regina Lewis, … Continue reading
Ok, it was a year ago now that I started making noise about the iPhone Pro that I expected to arrive, based on the underwhelming iPhone 3G launch.I, of course, thought that the iPhone Pro would make its appearance by Macworld in January (not the iPhone Nano thought other people were suggesting would be introduced), but neither was released as Apple announced that the iPhone was on a June annual release cycle.Now it’s February. The speculation is mounting on what Apple might release in June. Some people are theorizing that Apple will introduce a new $99 iPhone.I can see a $99 iPhone happening, but I’m not sure I can see Apple investing in building an entirely new design to sell at that pricepoint, given the limitations that the iPhone 3G already has.Apple will definitely introduce a new iPhone in June, but I still believe it will be a new high-end … Continue reading
I had the opportunity to attend the Brightidea Innovation Leaders “Birds of a Feather” Conference. The event was a peer-to-peer discussion on innovation management among innovation executives and managers at top global corporations. The conference provided a forum to exchange ideas and best practices on implementing innovation in large organizations, and there were presentations by WMS and Mentor Graphics. This is the second in a series of two articles highlighting the key takeaways from the two presentations, based on the notes I took at the event.The Mentor Graphics presentation was given by Kim Kelley, Service Delivery Program Manager.Mentor Graphics is a leading player in the electronic design automation (EDA) market. They are engaged in developing, manufacturing, marketing and supporting of EDA products. The company’s software and hardware solutions enable integrated device manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers and semiconductor foundries to develop electronic products.SituationThe old process of managing enhancement requests wasn’t working … Continue reading
