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Does your talent fit your work environment?
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 25/05/2017
» Albert Einstein once said: "If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Sadly, many business people are on career tracks where they feel like a fish being asked to climb a tree.
Escaping the 'GIGO' principle of innovation
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 24/11/2016
» Last week I began planning a comprehensive innovation project with a client. This project is highly important for this multinational corporation, which is seeking new applications in new industries for a profitable product that is now locked into one industry and application niche.
From a vision statement to vision scenarios
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 12/05/2016
» What's the corporate vision of your organisation? At Thinkergy, we've always had a clear picture of a compelling future for our innovation company. But due to changes in the wider business environment, our crystal-clear and motivating vision had somehow become hazy, lukewarm and doubtful. So what can we do to retain or regain vision clarity in uncertain times?
Dos and don'ts for a successful innovation project
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 21/01/2016
» At the beginning of a new year, many businesses consider doing something innovative to refresh their products and services or the ways they promote and deliver them. Planning and successfully running an innovation project is both a science and an art. Today, I will share with you eight dos and don'ts. Beware of the don'ts to avoid project failure (mediocre, ordinary ideas and outputs) and heed as many of the dos as possible to enjoy project success (extraordinary ideas and innovative results).
Is the rise of entrepreneurial Asia imminent? (Part 2)
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 15/10/2015
» Two weeks ago, we started exploring why Asia is likely to see a shift from a managerial to an entrepreneurial society in the next 20 years. We arrived at this insight using a futures forecasting technique named causal layered analysis (CLA) that was created by the futurist Sohail Inayatullah.
Are we seeing the rise of entrepreneurial Asia? (Part 1)
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 01/10/2015
» Two weeks ago, I shared with you a series of forecasting questions I gained at the Futures Foresight workshop run by Prof Sohail Inayatullah. I introduced to you a series of forecast scenarios on the future of innovation in Asia, one of which is called Entrepreneurial Asian Innovation 2035.
Forecasting the future of innovation in Asia
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 17/09/2015
» Two weeks ago, I invested time and money in my own professional development. Sohail Inayatullah, one of the world's foremost futurists, was invited by the Change Initiative to run a Futures Foresight workshop in Bangkok. He introduced a set of simple but powerful forecasting questions. How do they play out if a group of innovation experts applies them to forecast the future of innovation in Asia in 2035?