Convergence Conversation

Media lawyer, Laurence Kaye, wrote a thought-provoking post on his blog in January about the need for business model innovation to beat the blues which got me thinking. I wholeheartedly support his contention about the importance of maintaining, and indeed increasing, levels of innovation now. Beyond that, I suggest that there is a critical need for companies that want to be successful coming out of the current downturn to ensure that they deliver on one specific fundamental type of innovation during it.

We live in “unprecedented times” – or so everyone keeps telling us. Whether the hyperbolae are true or not, there is no doubt that we are still near the beginning of a journey through a period of exceptional turbulence in the commercial and economic environment affecting most, if not all, industries, both manufacturing and services. So much is incontrovertible – a ‘pestonism&r More...