solve your new problems: stop focusing on the old - richard mulholland - software ag
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Richard kicked off his career as a rock n roll roadie, operating lights for bands such as Iron Maiden and Def Leppard. From there he started SA's largest presentation firm, Missing Link and co-founded 21Tanks, SA's first perspective lab. Richard is a highly regarded speaker. When not addressing many of South Africa's top corporations, he guest lectures on courses for The Cape Graduate School of Business (GSB), and the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). As well as blogging on richmulholland.com, Richard is a columnist for Longevity and Destiny Man magazines. In this presentation, Richard challenges us to change how we think about innovation. Richard asserts that we have to stop trying to solve old problems. He say we must focus on solving new problems, because problems don't stand still... they evolve. This presentation was a keynote address at Software AG's 2014 Innovation Forum, held in Johannesburg, South Africa.TRANSCRIPT
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Richard Mulholland Solve Your New Problems: Stop Focusing on the Old
VS.
Fighting yesterday’s war.
Mind the gap!
“We fall in love with a
solution, when what we
really need, is to
rekindle our love for
the problem.”
The solution trap.
Solve
Problems
Refine
Solutions
Solve
New
Problems
$$$
The
trap
"Some look at
things that are,
and ask why. I
dream of things
that never were
and ask why
not."
- George Bernard Shaw
You
have to jump
curves!
Guy Kawasaki
“Rules for revolutionaries”
Ice farmers.
Ice factories.
Refrigeration
companies (PCs).
Bio technology.
The next revolution?
Mike McNamara.
Status Quo.
4 wee things
- Fall in hate
4 wee things
- Fall in hate
- Fight today’s war
4 wee things
- Fall in hate
- Fight today’s war
- Slay legacies
4 wee things
- Fall in hate
- Fight today’s war
- Slay legacies
- Jump curves
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