Archive for February, 2009

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Interview for Davison Creators

Davison Creators has just published an interview I did with them.  There were some interesting questions, and you can catch the full blurb here. The company itself has a fascinating 20 year track record of commercialising ideas, and if you have the time, you can dig around the Davison web site where there are some [...]

3 Comments » - Posted in Futures Thinking,Innovation CULTURE by Roger Dennis

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Indicators of the future

It’s one thing to spend time talking about where things are going, it’s another when you encounter some of those things. Sometimes even I fail to mentally move things from the  theoretical world to the real world.  Two recent examples: 1. Most people know about the potential for hybrid and electric vehicles, but not many [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Emerging Technology,Fringe scanning / peripheral vision by Roger Dennis

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Cisco and innovation cycles

From the Dec/Jan 09 issue of Fast Company magazine comes a great article about Cisco.  Several paragraphs of note including: Get ready for the upturn. “What’s our vision for where this industry is going with or without us?” That, [CEO John Cambers] says, is a five-year horizon. “What is our differentiated strategy within that vision?” [...]

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