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Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating what Things Mean
Roberto Verganti, Professor of Management of Innovation, Politecnico di Milano, and Author.
In this inspiring talk Professor Verganti explores how companies are using design to change the way they compete, and what this means for business in future...
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The CIO Agenda took place on June 9th 2010 at The Dorchester, London
Leading CIOs, experts and influential thinkers came together for an intense morning of debate on the impact of these technologies for the CIO and the future of IT leadership in the business.
You can view a selection of photos from the day in the box below:
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On March 11th - 12th, 250 design practitioners and business leaders gathered in London for The Big Rethink. It was jeans verses suits as these two communities converged to discuss how major disruptions to business are paving the way for design-led business innovation.
Over twenty presentations were delivered over the course of the two days...
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Over 130 senior sustainability leaders and influential thinkers attended Economist Conferences' Third Annual Sustainability Summit, held on February 25th 2010, at The Radisson BLU Portman Hotel, London. Attendees at the summit represented a broad spectrum of views on sustainability and climate change.
It was interesting to note, however,...
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The Economist calls for nominations for the 2010 Innovation Awards.
Nominations for The Economist's Innovation Awards are now open and will be accepted until April 1st 2010. Readers may nominate individuals (not companies) in one of the seven following categories: bioscience, business process, computing and telecoms, consumer goods and services,...
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Werner Vogels, Vice-president and CTO of Amazon and John Linwood, Chief Technology Officer, BBC will join an array of discussion leaders at the CIO Agenda in June this year.
Werner Vogels is in charge of technology innovation at Amazon, and is an expert on cloud computing. He has his own blog about distributed systems and is considered to...
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On January 28th 2010, Economist Conferences, in association with Accenture, held its third Davos breakfast forum, based on the results of an ongoing research programme on globalisation conducted by Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit. To watch the full discussion, please click here
The twin forces of globalisation and technology will...
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Watch the summary video of the 2009 Pharma Summit featuring Andrew Hotchkiss, Managing Director at Lilly UK; Richard Barker, Director General at ABPI and Wim Leereveld, Chair of the Access to Medicine Index.
This video briefly covers the discussions surrounding "agility and innovation in emerging markets".
For information on this year's Pharma...
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The president and CEO of GE International is joining us on day two of the Redesigning Business Summit in March. Nani Beccalli-Falco will be addressing an audience of 250 business leaders on the business model changes that have been implemented at GE, and he will look at the extent to which design can play an influential role in driving business...
