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  • Meryll Streep – The essence

    Meryl Streep, Barnard Commencement Speaker 2010, Columbia University. Via @JenniferSertl About empathy and emotion, the essence of leading by being. About happiness and your own sense of wellbeing and purpose in the world. About staying alert, alive, and staying involved in the lives of people that you love, and the people in the wider world that need… Read more

  • The Myth of Innovation Incentives

    Every now and then people ask me what incentives we have in place for encouraging innovative behavior. The short answer is: there are no incentives other than recognition and self-esteem when your idea happens for real. For people with a specific innovation role – such as our “Megaphones” – we do have their innovation objectives… Read more

  • The Edge Becomes The Core

    A couple of weeks ago, I had a discussion with colleague Joe on the program for one of our upcoming main Innotribe events. My colleague is not part of the innovation team, but has shown growing interest in what we are doing: great! Joe is known in the company as rather a conservative, cautious person,… Read more

  • TEDxNewWallStreet

    On March 11th, 400 people will gather in Mountain View, CA, to map out a new banking system fit for the Information Age, with new technologies, transparencies and values… at TEDxNewWallStreet. Just down the street from Google, some of the brightest minds locally and internationally are coming together at the famed Computer History Museum to… Read more

  • The future of touchscreens

    Awesome video of innovation in glass by Corning. Everything becoming touch based interface: from your cupboards to car dashboards. When the video shows health data visualizations, please start thinking big data in financial services and how this could change your financial and personal data services. Imagine doing VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) from an environment/interface like… Read more

  • The future rarely arrives when planned

    The title for this blog post comes from a 2010 talk by Mark Pesce. He adds to it: it rarely arrives in the form that we expect it is too hard to grasp, a bridge too far the seeds of the future are always with us in the present I have referred many times already… Read more