Archive for July, 2007
Friday, July 27th, 2007
Remarkable foresight – in 1912
From the Chemistry Dept of the University of Wisconsin (warning – PDF document) comes this interesting quote. It turns out that this quote appears all over the place online, but it’s remarkable. The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in the course of time as [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Emerging Technology by Roger Dennis
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Breaking medical paradigms
I did a presentation a couple of weeks ago in Sydney in which I made reference to innovators breaking paradigms. Often paradigm change is bought about by people who are free to challenge the status quo. To illustrate, here’s a great example from New Scientist. “Barry Marshall studied medicine at the University of Western Australia. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Fringe scanning / peripheral vision,Innovation CULTURE by Roger Dennis
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
John Hagel on edges
Last week I presented at an internal innovation conference of a very large Australian financial services company. I focussed on the innovation that occurs when you leverage the fringes and look at the edges of a sector. The message was well received, even though I included a skateboarding video at the start to wake everyone [...]
