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| East Asia World Economic Forum 2007 - Innovation Mantra |
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http://www.weforum.org 25.06.2007
The Innovation Mantra: The Key to Asian
Competitiveness?
Citing innovation as the key to global
competitiveness has become a reflex in Asia. But
is innovation understood, and applied, in the
context of meeting the unmet needs of consumers
and markets through insight and invention? Is an
incremental, product-based approach the best for
Asia? Which industries and companies have it
right, and which have it wrong, in Asia? What has
been the track record of governments so far to
foster real innovation?
Jim Goodnight, Chief Executive Officer, SAS, USA
K. V. Kamath, Managing Director and Chief
Executive Officer, ICICI Bank, India
Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Science Adviser to the Prime
Minister, Cabinet Office of Japan
Lim Siong-Guan, Chairman, Singapore Economic
Development Board, Singapore
Liu Jiren, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Neusoft, People's Republic of China
Jignesh Shah, Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
Financial Technologies (FTIL), India; Young Global
Leader
Chaired by
John K. Defterios, Group Vice-President, Content,
and Anchor, United Kingdom, FBC Media, United
Kingdom
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| Jeff Bezos: After the gold rush, there's innovation ahead |
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http://www.ted.com The dot-com boom-and-bust is
often compared to the 1849 Gold Rush, and
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos offers historical
evidence showing how similar they were: from the
riches made by pioneers to the media hype that
attracted luckless speculators. But a better
analogy can be found in the early days of the
electric industry, he says. In the late 1800s, the
U.S. was first wired to support lightbulbs; the
following century saw a long procession of new
appliances, life-changing advances, and of course
some amusing failures. His conclusion in 2003: "I
believe there's more innovation ahead of us than
behind us."
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| Innovation at Stanford -- A Song |
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My final project for a class called "Innovation &
Implementation in Complex Organizations," offered
by the Hasso Platner Institute of Design at
Stanford University (d.school).
It's a tribute to Gordon MacKenzie's "Orbiting the
Giant Hairball," a book which offers some insights
on how large and complex organizations can
innovate.
And seriously, I do need a job. Feel free to
contact me if you've got anything in product
management, business development or marketing.
Thanks!
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| Innovation Goes Public |
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Open Source provides much of the software
infrastructure for many of the world's largest
companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch,
Google, Pixar, Amazon, the City of New York, and
probably you - although you might not know it.
Innovative products like Linux, Firefox, and
Apache are the market-leaders in their sectors,
but there are tens of thousands of Open Source
programs, used for just about everything. But the
economics of Open Source are non-intuitive: how
can you make money by giving software away? Why
did IBM de-emphasize AIX, after spending Billions,
in favor of Linux, the product of a loose
collaboration of programmers that it can never
control? How can the world's greatest city trust
Open Source to help manage its jails?
Perens will show how Open Source is often the most
effective strategy for creating and utilizing new
innovation. He will explain the economics of Open
Source and how it works for profit-generating
companies. His talk will be clear to beginners yet
informative even for Open Source pros.
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| Toshiba Latest Leading Innovation Advert aired on the 21st J |
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Toshiba in the United Kingdom
About us
Toshiba has operated in Europe for over 30 years
and employs around 4000 people in the region.
Toshiba of Europe Limited, based in London,
England, is the European representative office of
the Corporation. In addition to commercial
activities, Toshiba also runs a Research &
Development operation in Europe - one of a number
of Toshiba's corporate-level R&D organisations
outside Japan.
Toshiba: Who We Are
Toshiba's excellence in technology, products,
systems and services, and the quality and
reliability for which we are known and respected,
all derive from the passion and determination that
the people of Toshiba bring to the pursuit of
innovation and progress.
As individuals, we seek out the new and develop
original concepts and expertise. We bring passion
and dedication to the workplace and welcome
responsibility. We are quick to decide and
resolute in action.
Our combined efforts inspire our customers. Our
powers of innovation deliver comfort, security and
affluence. Working together, we make dreams come
true, contribute to richer lifestyles and to a
better world.
The Story of Toshiba
On 18th September 1799, Hisashige Tanaka was born,
the child of a tortoise-shell craftsman. From an
early age he enjoyed making trick toys, starting
with a clever pencil case that no one could open,
however hard they tried. Hisashige's creative
spirit continued and he made many other smart
toys. The most famous of which 'Yumihiki Douji' -
a doll which fired an arrow from a bow hitting a
target two metres away, every time.
Hisashige worked hard. He studied maths and
astronomy and used his unique imagination to
invent many things. A light burning ten times
brighter than a candle. A wind-up clock keeping
perfect time for over 200 days. His work even went
into the field of heavy industries, where he
developed steam trains, steam ships and cannons.
In 1875, he established a company "Tanaka
Engineering Works" which we all now know as
"Toshiba". Today, individuals around the world are
living Hisashige's dream, using their imaginations
to turn inspirational ideas into products and
systems that enhance the world we live in.
The Toshiba Corporation
For more than a century and a quarter, Toshiba has
been a leader among Japan's largest and most
energetic industrial enterprises. From power
plants and bullet trains to mobile phones and
sub-micron technologies, we are known around the
world for our cutting edge televisions, portable
PCs, DVD players and drives, and supporting
electronic devices. With technologies pouring in
from more than thirty separate R&D laboratories
and over 300 subsidiary companies around the
world, we have a towering profile and a technology
leadership that has resulted in many world firsts.
Despite our global reputation for R&D excellence,
we work with other global brands to stay at the
forefront of developments and be present in key
business markets. NEC, Panasonic, SanDisk,
Samsung, Sony and IBM are just some of the
companies that we have recently formed alliances
with. From our origins as an electrical machinery
manufacturer in 1875 through to our current
global, high-Technology pre-eminence, we have
guided ourselves by a universal set of values that
lie at the heart of our identity, 'Committed to
People, Committed to the Future'.
Toshiba has provided the world's fastest elevators
in the world's tallest building, the Taipei
Financial Center. Two of the 63 elevators are
ultra high-speed, reaching an incredible speed of
1000 metres per minute - all in quiet,
vibration-free comfort.
In Japan we supply over 70% of the key electrics
in "Tsubame", the Kyushu bullet train. Another
demonstration of our wide capabilities in
promoting safe, record-breaking high-speed
transport.
Qosmio demonstrates how we are using our computing
and consumer electronics expertise to meet the
rising demand for simple, personal entertainment
solutions. Meaning 'my personal cosmos', it is the
first of its kind, offering consumers a unique
"4-in-1" experience with TV, audio, DVD recorder
and PC functionality. We are actively promoting
flat-panel LCD and plasma display TVs, while
developing with Canon the next-generation of
display for high-definition content, SED
(surface-conduction electron-emitter display).
Toshiba is one of the largest semiconductor
manufacturers in the world, and inventor and world
leader in NAND flash memory. Toshiba's NAND chips
are widely used in various types of memory cards
such as SD™ Card, SmartMedia™ and
CompactFlash™. The company also holds more
technology patents than any other PC vendor.
Ranked high in the world, our power systems
business will enhance its presence further in the
global marketplace. Toshiba secured over 15% of
the world's orders for steam turbines in 2003.
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