Monday, January 31, 2011

Creating the environment for progressive innovation


The New Year is always the time to reflect on the past and plan for the future. Unfortunately few of us have a clean sheet on which to pen an entirely new future, but it's always useful to think the unthinkable before we jump back on the tread mill of life.

It's difficult to predict what 2011 has is store but I suspect here in the UK as in other parts of the world it's going to be another year of re-adjustment brought about by the state of the economy and changes to the norms we have come to take for granted. I had the pleasure of spending some time in Japan before Christmas and had the opportunity to reflect on how Japanese society and business has come to terms with a low growth decade. I joked that perhaps the Japanese experience was something all of us in the western world needed to understand and learn from - "success and happiness with no growth."

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