{"id":704,"date":"2008-02-03T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/corporate-fountain-of-youth\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T15:32:01","slug":"corporate-fountain-of-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2008\/02\/corporate-fountain-of-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Fountain of Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"float:left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px\" src='http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-content\/images\/notebookc.jpg' alt='' \/> As I am checking my backlog of posts I wanted to write in relation to the Davos forum (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/en\/events\/AnnualMeeting2008\/index.htm\">World Economic Forum&#8217;s annual meeting<\/a>&#8220;) I found this post of mine on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/\">Technology Review article<\/a>, noting an interesting comment by Sheldon Buckler on the importance of permanent (business model) innovation and board level support: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/read_article.aspx?id=18311&#038;ch=biztech\">Corporate Fountain of Youth<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A deeply ingrained culture of innovation is vital for all companies, but particularly for those that are technology based; it is innovation that allows a technology company to continually generate new business. For this kind of culture to take hold, all the microcultures in a \u00adcompany &#8211; including those devoted to business planning, marketing, operations, and developing new ideas &#8211; must be understood, supported, and (though they may at times seem incompatible) brought together under leadership that truly cares about creativity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He ponders this fuzzy innovation incompetence, which in turn threatens the long-term prospects of firms, and calls for more powerful innovation promoters in the enterprise. Well, yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I am checking my backlog of posts I wanted to write in relation to the Davos forum (&#8220;World Economic Forum&#8217;s annual meeting&#8220;) I found this post of mine on a Technology Review article, noting an interesting comment by Sheldon Buckler on the importance of permanent (business model) innovation and board level support: &#8220;Corporate Fountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,8],"tags":[482,26,530,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}