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2nd Startfeld Innovation Forum

June 4, 2018 / By Anca / in EDG, Innovation, Signals of the Future / Comments Off on 2nd Startfeld Innovation Forum

EDG Switzerland is again partnering with Startfeld St. Gallen for this year’s Innovation Forum: Out of the Box – Creating Customer Value through Innovation. 

Herman Gyr of EDG Silicon Valley will be the lead speaker to kick off a day of remarkable presenters and practitioners.  The goal is to educate our audience with new ideas on how to enhance their concentration and inspire them to pursue remarkable innovations. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of where the world is headed, how to identify the relevant customer needs of tomorrow, and how to design and develop high-impact innovation. In addition to inspiring talks, participants will join a series of workshops where they will learn innovation best practices for generating, developing, and scaling innovation, to ensure their brilliant ideas can become reality, and to find out how these companies have had so much success.

See http://www.startfeld.ch/innovationsforum/ for more information (in German).

Startfeld Innovations Forum – 8 June 2017

May 4, 2017 / By David Alan Foster / in Uncategorized / Comments Off on Startfeld Innovations Forum – 8 June 2017

Speakers, workshops and discussion on the challenge of innovation in Switzerland including how to find high impact opportunities using the practices and perspectives of Silicon Valley and forward-looking Swiss organizations.

Startfeld is the innovation and start-up network in the St.Gallen Bodensee Area. "In every phase of innovation, we support both ambitious entrepreneurs and established SMEs who are open to new impulses and development."

In St. Gallen, Switzerland, join us... info here.

Download a PDF (in German) of the event here

Innovating at Startup Speed

Innovating at Startup Speed

March 10, 2016 / By David Alan Foster / in EDG, Innovation, Uncategorized / Comments Off on Innovating at Startup Speed

Silicon Valley is Hot! — blog article by Lisa Friedman, Herman Gyr, and Lazslo Gyorffy. There have always been many visitors coming to Silicon Valley, but lately this has become a veritable torrent....Read More »

The EDG Garage

May 29, 2015 / By Lisa Friedman / in EDG / Comments Off on The EDG Garage

EDG Garage - Palo Alto, CA

Silicon Valley is known for its garages: The original HP garage and the Apple garage in Steve Jobs’ father’s home.
     EDG too is located in a garage, next to a storage room. It’s a bit larger than its more famous cousins, but it too is a special place. A place where dreams are formulated. A place where people join each other in compelling conversation in front of large white-board walls to envision their enterprises. To develop their blueprint for the future. A place where really smart people exchange ideas that are changing the world. In any industry. Hooking up with local visionaries and pioneers. Those who have already accomplished gaming extraordinary things, and those that are just starting. They all share one thing: a passion for what’s possible. Possible, but not yet actualized. They gain strength from these exchanges and the courage to take the steps necessary to bring about the aspirations for a better future.
     For the past 25 years people from all around the world have come here, visiting this humble garage. Big things have happened here: a large South African company realizing at the time of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison that their main purpose now was to “become the company committed to the renewal of South Africa as an African nation.” Or a Swiss company completely rethinking its identity in the social, mobile, global, digital, online gaming and green world. Our most recent visitors are searching to understand what their industries can become in a world where everything will be smart and connected - in the era of the “Internet of Everything.” What kind of future will we build together? What will our company stand for in that future? What is required of the leaders to unleash the talents of our people? These are the kind of dreams and plans that are made in the garage.
     There is a poster on one of the walls that we were given when we worked with HP.  It's a photo of the original HP garage on Addison Street in Palo Alto and lists HP’s Rules of the lol Garage:

  *  Believe you can change the world.
  *  Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever.
  *  Know when to work alone and when to work together. Share – tools, ideas. Trust your colleagues.
  *  No politics. No bureaucracy. These are ridiculous in a garage!
  *  The customer defines a job well done.
  *  Radical ideas are not bad ideas.
  *  Invent different ways of working.
  *  Make a contribution every day. If it doesn’t contribute, it doesn’t leave the garage.
  *  Believe that together we can do anything.

IT Innovation, Prototyping, and Communication

May 12, 2015 / By David Alan Foster / in Innovation / Comments Off on IT Innovation, Prototyping, and Communication

bluedigitalworldLaszlo Gyorffy delivered the closing module on how to build a discipline of innovation for the IT Business Transformation Program in Copenhagen on October 6, 2014.  The inaugural program was for experienced business and IT leaders, project managers, and experts. Furthermore, for the business who are in need of management support, look for CRMmatch site or their Facebook page. When you want to get better at coding, visit Team Treehouse website to enroll for high quality programming courses, Read More here.

Organizations are looking to thrive in a digital world where the developments from social media to big data create new possibilities and change the rules on a daily basis. For instance, in today's technology, you can play spanish class casino online with your mobile phones. In this dynamic environment, it is paramount for IT leaders and professionals to be able to identify and consistently deliver technology answers that keep pace with operational demands and address businesses critical requirements. New advances in communication have made it easier for companies to communicate instantly with their employees... we've come along way from pagers. In the highly interactive program, participants worked individually and collectively to explore opportunities for their enterprises and develop viable solutions. The program shared best practices and offered insights into exemplary innovators like Apple, Toyota, CISCO, and the BBC, just like the best software to manage your workforce.  Attendees learned IT strategies, leadership competencies, and innovative practices to enhance their contributions to their company’s success and to reach the full potential of their career. Technology is changing the world, now a lot of business are online only, i.e. if you want to buy the best fashion clothes online you look for the best fashion shop online like Fifth Collection Celine.

The other three modules were: 1. The World of the Client and the Business, 2. Business Development in Practice, 3. Organizational Effectiveness.

The program was sponsored by The Lime Guild and conducted in partnership with the Copenhagen Business School Executive, Techwitty Pty Ltd, Råvarebygningen, Porcelænshaven 22, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark

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