The Innovation Summit held at the new Shell Technology Center in Houston last month discussed some of the difficult challenges related energy, food and water that we face today — and that are becoming ever more pressing as the world’s population grows. Shell calls this the “stress nexus” because these three areas — food, water
Renee Hopkins, Jill Hart, Francois Gossieaux and I had the pleasure of attending Dassault Systèmes’ 3DXForum in the US, and two weeks later it was Europe’s turn. The forum was exciting to follow even just virtually. Here are a few of the highlights in photos. First, the 3DSCATIA booth was running a live demo on yacht design
Due to another unfortunate weather system making a guest appearance on the East Coast of the USA this week I was unable to successfully get into and out of Orlando for Dassault Systèmes, 3D Experience Forum. Which is a shame because it looks like the range of innovations shared that are using 3D visualization to drive
Next week is Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM North America, the company’s premier customer event. Al Bunshaft, Managing Director, North America, will kick off the event, which will be keynoted by Joe Pine, author of the bestselling The Experience Economy and the new Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier. Next, Bernard Charlès, Dassault Systèmes’ President
The Business Innovation Factory’s annual Collaboration Innovation Summit is right around the corner on September 19-20, 2012. I’ll be attending for the third year in a row, looking forward to the RCUS that this event brings. RUCS — the Random Collisions of Unusual Suspects – is what BIF8 is all about — that wonderful ingredient that
Tata Technologies is partnering with Dassault Systemes to develop an electric car priced under $20,000. The design challenge for the new car — called the Tata eMO (for “electric mobility”) — looms large. Tata wants a car that can drive 100 miles on a single charge, which means its weight must be kept low. At
The concept of effectively scaling innovation is a recurring theme in my work with clients and I’ve previously recounted its value to the enterprise. It’s also of interest in the wider innovation community. Recently, it was good to see the power of scaling innovation called out so directly by Jim Collins (of Good To Great
There’s been a lot of media focus lately on new types of personal transportation, namely cars that fly. You may have heard about the one to which I’m referring — The Transition®, built by Terrafugia. The Transition® is designed to give pilots the option to fly, land the aircraft, then fold the wings in and
Many years ago I was working with a client on prioritizing their strategic project portfolio. Representatives from across the company were wrestling with the range of projects then in the mix; there were over 500 for an organization with only slightly more people than projects. The confusion, frustration and anger were a lethal mix in
When I travel I never cease to be amazed at the range human ingenuity I see as people create workarounds to improve their lives. More often than not, I am not driving or I’m traveling by public transport (most places I visit are cities and they have decent public transport – a novel concept for