{"id":81,"date":"2007-07-02T08:34:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T00:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-07-02T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T00:42:03","slug":"john-hagel-on-edges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"John Hagel on edges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 up (early morning and after lunch presentations require those little extra wake-up calls).<\/p>\n<p>Now, back in the office &#8211; fresh after the presentation &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking about the fringes even more so than usual.  Which prompted me to blog this post from John Hagel. It&#8217;s an old post, but one that bears reading if you have not already done so.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Edges often provide the most significant shaping opportunities.  This is one more reason to seek out, rather than avoiding, the edges on the business landscape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full post is <a href=\"http:\/\/edgeperspectives.typepad.com\/edge_perspectives\/2005\/09\/rethinking_risk.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-fringes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}