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WORKSHOPS... Innovation Update Declaring an end to “Davosian waffle”, Richard Quest, the voluble CNN presenter, opened the second session by challenging eighth design experts to come up with quick-fire solutions to help build a more creative global economy. Jan 25 2006 | John Thornhill FT.com CEO Series Workshop 1 What would happen if the forward march of globalisation was suddenly slammed into reverse? John Thornhill, the FT’s European edition editor, reports exclusively as thirty business leaders, trade ministers, and economists gather to discuss crisis scenarios at Davos. Jan 27 2006 | John Thornhill FT.com CEO Series Workshop 2 Will India be the new China, or will the hype around both prove to be as illusory as it was for the internet? CEOs grappled with the future of the two Asian juggernauts in their second Davos workshop. Jan 27 2006 | John Thornhill FT.com CEO Series Workshop 3 The spread of the internet, the rise in consumer expectations in the developing world, the increasing technological possibilities for stealing ideas, and the understandable clamour to tackle pandemics, such as Aids, are all threatening intellectual property rights. Jan 27 2006 | John Thornhill FT.com CEO Series Workshop 4 “Design is about more than making things look cool and pretty. You have companies that use design thinking as a way of creating their future,” according to Tim Brown, president of Ideo, a US-based design firm, who is running this workshop that stretches late into Friday evening Jan 27 2006 | John Thornhill FT.com CEO Series Workshop 5 The theme of the first Saturday morning workshop in Davos is: what makes people happy? This might seem like an insensitive topic for chief executives to consider as they nurse their heads after a night of partying. But, according to Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at Toronto University, it is a vital question to ask if you want to attract and retain the best talent. Jan 28 2006 | John Thornhill FT.com CEO Series Workshop 6 The final session of the CEO workshop series drew on some of the best discussions that had gone before and directly addressed the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum: the creative imperative. The main lesson: “There are no stupid ideas”. Jan 28 2006 | John Thornhill FT.com |
John
Thornhill, the Financial Time’s European edition editor, joined
us in the WorkSpace to report exclusively from inside the World
Economic Forum’s six prestigious CEO workshops. For each workshop
listed below you'll find a link to John's article as well as photo
galleries of workshop participants, scribing and WorksWall™.
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