joyce@thinksmart.com wrote:
> Peter Drucker says the only things that matter in
> business today are Marketing and Innovation.
>
> Tom Peters says "Innovate or Die!"
>
> Does that mean we're entering the "Innovation Age?"
>
> If so, what are the skills we need to thrive
> in the Innovation Age? Are they different than those
> required in the "Information Age?"
>
> Are we really in a different age or are these just words?
>
> Would love to hear your thoughts.
Whether we call it innovation, "breaktrough" (Juran), or "agility"
(Goldman, Nagel, and Preiss), we're in an era of transformational
thinking. We know much more about things distant than we did in the first
half of the century. Status quo in business, industry, art, and science
is unthinkable. Information, knowledge, wisdom, chicanery, and
foolishness are easily attainable via email, web browsing, telephony, and
television.
Innovation, agility, mass customization, sneakerization, or whichever name
we wish to use is rapid response to changing tastes, wants, needs, on the
one hand, and the ability to filter information from data and noise in
order to establish response on the other.
It may just be an age of mass delusion, confusion, or illusion, but there
are many people operating at a much higher bandwidth than was possible ten
years ago. I wouldn't try to name it, but it would be nice if it could be
both described and explained.
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