The Innovation Zone September '09 Newsletter

2009 Economic Outlook

Delphi's latest research on the perspectives and outlook for the economy and the prospects for a recovery.

This research summarizes an extensive survey undertaken by Delphi Group and Transformation and Innovation.

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The Way Forward

Small Business is the economic backbone of the economy, yet the recent economic crisis has shifted our perspective to large corporates.

How important are small and medium sized businesses to the economy and what has been done to support them as we right the economy? You'll be surprised at these observations and insights.

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Innovation: From Art to Science

Imagine the simplest product possible, something that has only a single ingredient, ideally a pure commodity, abundantly available, utterly bland and indistinguishable in its appearance, form, and taste. To make this even more interesting, imagine that this product can also be obtained for free.

What latitude could there possibly be to innovate with that sort of a product? It's hard to imagine a bigger challenge. Yet our lack of imagination here is only a testament to our lack of creativity in how well we can innovate the process of innovation itself.

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The Innovation Generation

The last two centuries saw the great democratization of learning across the globe. Education went from being a privilege to aright in most of the industrialized world. Yet the very thing that has allowed primary and secondary education to flourish in this time is also likely to be its greatest liability as we move into the next 100 years. Education, like so much of our story about the evolution of the organization, has been cast in the image of the factory. It has become a mass production engine of in-the-box learning. But in-the-box learning is the last thing that children thrust into a world of ever-increasing uncertainty need.

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