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08.20.10With Innovation, You Don't Get Points for DifficultySomeone in India recently asked me what I thought about an innovation strategy featuring a heavy dose of "imitation." My response was, "Innovation isn't Olympic diving." What did I mean? An individual diver's scores for an event are a factor of two things: how well they execute their dive, and the "degree of difficulty" of their selected dive. The more twists and turns you have, the more points you can earn. You don't get points for degree of difficulty for innovation. You get points for producing profits. Sometimes you do have to take higher risk, more uncertain approaches to produce those profits. ...
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11.06.09Polycentric Innovation: The New Global Innovation Agenda for MNCsRecently I delivered a talk a the Council on Foreign Relations titled "Managing the New Trajectory of Global Innovation" explaining why and how multinationals must revamp their Western-centric innovation strategy in order to effectively leverage global ideas, talent, and markets. In our increasingly multi-polar world characterized by the inexorable rise of emerging markets like Brazil, China, and India, I believe multinationals (MNCs) must abandon their ethnocentric innovation model — which concentrated all their R&D resources in the West. Instead, MNCs must embrace a "polycentric" innovation model in which R&D capabilities are distributed globally to swiftly seize regional opportunities and ...
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CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
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