In his introductory address, public sector session moderator Thomas Spiller of SAS neatly summed up some of the biggest challenges faced by national governments: dealing with the current economic climate and managing a crisis of confidence within their governments. In his experience, government responses seem to fall in to three
In a thought-provoking keynote speech at The Premier Business Leadership Series in Berlin, Soumitra Dutta asked, "Are we born to innovative?" The answer, according to Dutta and a majority of hands raised in the audience is, Yes. Children, for example, experiment, ask questions, observe and tolerate a high-level of risk,
Is innovation being squelched during belt-tightening optimization efforts? If long term benefits aren’t balanced with short term gains, that’s often the case. Passion is quickly extinguished when new ideas meet with budget constraints that can’t be disregarded for the sake of innovation or creativity. It’s time to look at ways
Twenty-four sessions, twenty-four speakers, twenty-four different topics over just two days, and I didn’t just sit through the convention as a participant, no, I moderated the entire two day event as its Chairman. The Financial Forecasting and Planning Summit, organized by the IE Group, and held at the DoubleTree Mission
~ Contributed by Bill Marriott ~ Here we are at the beginning of a New Year. By now most of you have made and a few of you have already broken your personal New Year’s Resolutions. For many of you, this is going to be the year you’re going to
