"[that this year at the Strategy conference], the whining is gone, and there's eagerness to engage".
— Christopher Meyer, CEO, Monitor Networks
Speaker
Spk: Josephine Green
"Question whether higher standard of living still equates with higher quality of life"
— Josephine Green,
Senior Director of Trends and Strategy, Philips Design
Spk: Connie Duckworth
"You've got a great space somewhere in your house that could use an Arzu rug!"
— Connie Duckworth, President and Chairman, Arzu, Inc.
Editor's note: I was deeply inspired by Connie. Elect Connie Duckworth for President of the US!
Spk: Chris Anderson
"The one-size-fits-all model never fits the individual right. We are now on the verge of the one-size-fits-one world."
— Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine
Spk: Charles Cascio
"I brought the Frog team to ETS ..."
— Charles Cascio, VP of Interactive Learning, ETS
Editor's note: The crowd breathed a sigh of relief that this wasn't another 'saved-by-IDEO' presentation.
Spk: Denis Weil
" Our scenarios were not concrete enough for the executive decision makers"
— Denis Weil, VP Innovation & Concept Dev, McDonalds Corp.
Spk: David Lawrence
"We are the Intel of the bicycle industry."
— David Lawrence, Sr. Manager, Shimano America
Spk: Larry Keeley
Larry Keeley, Co-Founder of Doblin Group, masterfully closed the day by summarizing each of the speaker's contributions to the conference. He showed us the lessons we learned from what he described as the "captains," "plumbers," and "tinkerers" today.
Spk: Roger Martin
"To get more reliability (business approach), you sacrifice validity (design approach). And vice-versa."
— Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Business, Univerity of Toronto
Spk: Connie Yowell
"Aggregating and filtering tools like google are everywhere, and they allow children to have access to everything at anytime on their own terms."
— Connie Yowell, Director of Education, MacArthur Foundation
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