Top 10 Paul Saffo Insights – World Innovation Forum
May 11, 2009 / /
Taking a slightly different approach than other World Innovation Forum bloggers, I’ve distilled my time with Paul Saffo down into these Top 10 Insights:
- There are times when the uncertainty is so great that you shouldn’t even forecast at all
- Google becoming richer as people ‘contribute’ search strings – Where else do you think you are consuming but actually contribute?
- 2/3 of Roomba owners give them a name – 1/3 take them with them to friend’s house or on vacation
- Innovative ideas often take about twenty years to succeed – If you find something that has been failing for almost 20 years, pay special attention
- LucasFilm Habitat failed 20 yrs ago, others followed in failure, then Second Life took off
- People tend to substitute forward velocity as a measure of succcess
- Sometimes bad management is what allows innovation to happen
- The innovators’ trap is mistaking a clear view for a short distance
- People talk about innovations as an S-curve. Most people look at the inflection point. Look at the flat spot instead.
- Forecasters tend to over-estimate the short-term and under-estimate the long-term
- If you want to make sense of the future, look back – Look back twice as far as you are looking forward
Finally, I’d like to end with a quote from Mark Twain:
“History doesn’t repeat itself, at best it sometimes rhymes”
UPDATED May 24, 2009 – Here are the slides from Paul Saffo’s presentation at the World Innovation Forum:
Paul Saffo – World Innovation Forum
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