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  • Innotribe Bangkok: Hyper-connecting the captains of industry

    Innotribe, the innovation initiative of SWIFT, will be launching its innovation lab for Asian corporates at the forthcoming Asian Banker Summit to be held in Bangkok from 26-27 April, 2012. (Drawing by Kosta Peric on iPAD) The lab is designed for executives and managing directors of Asian companies,  to collectively think through their business strategies… Read more

  • Open Source currencies

    Very interesting video interview about Bitcoin, Ripple Project, etc Watch till the end: about monoculture of currency, profit vs purpose, how the open source revolution and P2P networks and open source currencies have the potential on medium/long term to create the same sort of disruptions we have seen in music, software, etc “And unless we… Read more

  • 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