Last week, I blogged about the results of the recent PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global CEO Survey. Essentially, the study found that CEOs are confident of growth in 2011 because they’re placing a higher premium on innovation. This post sparked an interesting Twitter conversation with http://twitter.com/#!/rundblad about who leads innovation efforts in business. Ultimately, Rundblad, a user experience [...]
Archive for February 2011:
Outside-In Innovation
The Future Demands Collaboration, Ideation, Implementation and Value Creation
According to a recent Washington Post poll, “a growing number of Americans consider the accelerating trend toward globalization a bad thing for the United States. At the same time, a majority now sees being the world’s No. 1 economic power as an important national goal.” We face change that has caught us off guard. The [...]
CEOs Look to Innovation for Future Success
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ recently released 14th Annual Global CEO Survey, confidence is back. In fact, PwC Chairman Dennis M. Nally said in his foreword, “chief executives were nearly as confident of growth this coming year as they’ve ever been in our survey.” But, because North America and Europe still face “lingering effects of the downturn,” [...]
Teaching Children to be Innovative Requires the Both/And
Ever since Amy Chua published an excerpt from her new book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” in The Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago, there has been much chatter among Western parents and Chinese parents alike about the best way to raise their kids. “What Chinese parents understand,” she said, “is that nothing [...]