“Innovation: If you’re like a frog, the wrong threats leap to mind”. Harvey Schacter takes a look, commenting that the “book is easy to read, bringing together an array of interesting facts and some practical ……… ideas for capitalizing on them through an innovation impetus in your organization.” Read the review online and buy the book.
Keynote: US Army Corps of Engineers
On Tuesday, I will be doing a keynote on behalf of the CIO of the US Army Corps of Engineers in San Diego; I’ll be taking a look at the trends and issues that will impact the organization, and how innovative and rapid-forward-oriented thinking will become critical to its ongoing role in support of the US military worldwide.
“The rapidity of change has changed”
Tomorrow I keynote the annual conference for the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. This is a huge and important group — these are the folks who act as the “distant early warning system” for major organizations worldwide.
Given that it is a room of forward oriented, future-thinking people, I’ll be providing them some of my insight into the future, but in a different way — describing for them that was is really going on with future trends is that the “rapidity of change has changed” — things have sped up to a huge degree, compared to where we were just a few years ago. Markets shift faster, products evolve quicker, customers are more fleeting than ever before, and the evolution of science continues at a furious pace.
Their role as the individuals who are most critical in providing their leadership insight into “what comes next” will only become more important than ever before……
New article – “8 ways to embrace change”
“Opportunity today comes from your ability to innovate, adapt and evolve. Stay static, and you’ll be left in the dust.” Read my new PROFIT article here 
Keynote – The skills crisis
Some months back, I wrote in a column that “one of the most challenging issues that you will face through the next decade will be an increasing inability to access the staff and skills necessary to effectively run your business. Blame it on retiring babyboomers, Generation Y and hyper-innovation.”
Today I will be doing a keynote on the issues and challenges with hiring a skilled workforce, spending about an hour looking at the future….
You can read the original article here 
The Masters in Business Imagination (MBI) Manifesto
Enough already!
Complacency in a time of rapid, disruptive change can be a death sentence – not only for organizations, but for the careers and skills of those who work there! It’s time to abandon the thinking that has had you anchored firmly to the past – and to shift your focus to the future, with enthusiasm, motivation and imagination.
You can do this by abandoning any pretence that the skills of yesterday will be important tomorrow. Figuratively and literally, it is time to move beyond the thinking that has led us to a world of MBA’s – Masters of Business Administration – and focus upon the critical skill that will take you into tomorrow.
The world doesn’t need more administrators. It needs more MBI’s – Masters of Business magination.
Read more in my MBI Manifesto.
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