Creative Innovation

Re-Imagining the Asian Middle-class in the 2020s: Why the Rise of China will Forge the World’s Strongest Consumer Market

Jessamy — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:03:23 +0000

Bernard Salt is the National Partner responsible for KPMG’s Demographics group and has over 20 years’ experience in demographic analysis and commentary. He is a recognised expert in local, national and global demographic trends. Bernard is best known to Australian business for his commentary in the media on the implications of demographic and social change. He is one of the most in-demand speakers on the Australian corporate speaking circuit.

In his presentation at Ci2012, Bernard Salt started his speech by saying that China’s economy is now 50% of the US economy. China is progressing towards super power status based on the ideal of middle class aspirations. He also thinks that China will run into a labour problem at the end of this decade and may lose its “cheap labour” edge.

He also introduced the Dubai-Effect, where people will work in Asia and relax in other countries and that Australia will benefit from the Dubai-Effect relationship with China. At the end he said stronger cultural shifts are expected with the increasing Asian population in Australia.

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Innovations in and around Government: Is democracy keeping up with the pace of social and technological change?

Jessamy — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:02:30 +0000

Geoff Mulgan’s (UK) previous roles include CEO of The Young Foundation, Director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and Head of Policy in the Prime Minister’s office, and he was the founder of the think-tank Demos. Since 2004: Geoff has been a visiting Professor at London School of Economics, University College London and University of Melbourne, China Executive Leadership Academy and visiting Fellow at the Australia New Zealand School of Government and the UK National School of Government. He is Adviser to many governments around the world on policy and strategy, including recent work for the governments of Singapore and UAE.

In this presentation at Ci2012, Geoff talked about innovating democracy and the democratisation of innovation. He questioned how we are going to move the world’s brain power from concentrated research to open innovation. He envisioned that open innovation and crowd sourcing will play a major part both in the corporate and government worlds in the future.

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How will our Bodies keep up with the Technology and what will it mean to Society?

Jessamy — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:37:20 +0000

Professor Rosenthal’s research focuses on muscle and cardiac developmental genetics and the role of growth factors and stem cells in tissue regeneration, with over 160 primary research articles and prominent reviews in high impact international journals, including general reviews for Scientific American. She brings a unique and powerful perspective on stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at the interface of basic, biomedical and industrial life sciences.

In her keynote at Ci2012, she spoke on ageing and how chronic diseases and costs of healthcare go up and productivity goes down with age. According to her, there are three ways to increase health span: by reducing environmental stress, changing metabolisms, and producing regenerative medicines. Then she talked about how mammals have lost their regenerative capacity and how the stem cells can be activated. She gave an example of Axolotls which have a full spectrum of immune cells that don’t scar similar to human beings. Her research is further focused on whether we can grow back a limb in similar fashion or even regenerate a heart!

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Wicked Conversations! …that Drive Alignment and Innovation

Jessamy — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:09:26 +0000

Steve is the founding President of the Society for Knowledge Economics (SKE), a not for profit think tank established in 2005. The SKE encourages new and better practices in the leadership and management of human and other intangible resources that create economic and social value in knowledge based and globally connected economies. Steve has more than thirty years’ experience in the Information Technology and on line Media industry and has lived and worked in Australia, the USA and Asia.

In his presentation titled at Ci2012, he discussed how we can get better at having wicked conversations and be comfortable with being uncomfortable. According to Steve, we need to look at improving workplaces by using simple direct language which changes behaviour. There cannot be high performance without having tough conversations about purpose and priority and whether they both are aligned with each other. He ended his speech by saying we need to say no to many good ideas so we don’t end up doing too much and focus on what’s really important.

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Innovation Lessons from Asia and Driving Growth in Emerging Markets

Jessamy — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:10:53 +0000

Scott Anthony is the Managing Director of Innosight and is the author of The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work and The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Press). Prior to joining Innosight, Scott was a senior researcher with Innosight co-founder and Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, managing a group that worked to further Christensen’s research on innovation.

He moved to Singapore 3 years ago, where he believes that the real game changers and next wave of innovations and disruptions are taking place. In this keynote titled “Innovation Lessons from Asia and Driving Growth in Emerging Markets”, he discussed what it takes to succeed in emerging markets particularly Asia and what might be stopping us from being more innovative. Sharing his extensive experience in India, China, Philippines and Thailand, working with different companies, he shared 5 key lessons he learnt to succeed in emerging markets: 1) Go Native 2) Delight not Delude 3) New Business Models 4) Build Ecosystem 5) Embrace Local Autonomy.

In conclusion, he asserted that failure is the most important step in success. The real game changers are the ones who can tolerate failure and keep going with humility.

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The Impact of Technology: Making the most of the 21st Century

Jessamy — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:09:18 +0000

The Baroness has been awarded 30 Honorary Degrees from British and foreign universities and heads a multi-disciplinary research group exploring novel brain mechanisms. In addition, she has developed an interest in the impact of 21st Century technologies on how young people think and feel, as discussed in her book ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century.

In her keynote at Ci2012 titled “The Impact of Technology: Making the most of the 21st Century”, she tried to persuade the audience they are going to face a problem comparable to climate change, which is mind change. According to her, mind change is an issue that’s as important and unprecedented as climate change. She then described how our brains develop and respond to different activities we do. Our brain is just like our muscle, it grows in the way we use it. While explaining the cyber world is going to change the world in a new way, she said that children who spent an excessive amount of time playing digital games have an enlarged area of the brain which is the main hub of the reward system. This meant that they got more reward from playing even when losing, in a similar way that gamblers’ brains compel them to keep betting when the odds are against them.

In conclusion, she suggested that we should give our children a better “real” environment rather than spending their time on computer and video games.

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