Eugene Booysen – The new challenge for business: Attack corporate antibodies
Head of innovation at Barclays Africa has the challenge of getting new thinking into a 40 000 enterprise full of corporate antibodies that attack change.
Innovation is the art of translating an idea into something that creates value for greater good. This section of Biznews examines the disruptive forces unlocked by new technology. It focuses on developments reshaping the global economy from the likes of Uber shaking up the taxi industry to Airbnb in the hotel space. This section enlightens the Biznews community about the freshest in innovation.
Head of innovation at Barclays Africa has the challenge of getting new thinking into a 40 000 enterprise full of corporate antibodies that attack change.
Alec Hogg discusses the futuristic thinking of Singularity University with Jabu Mabuza, which leaves him scared at the thought of the things we don’t understand.
Diamandis warns that investing in coal and nuclear power plants is a terrible mistake as the law of exponentiality makes the cost of renewables ever cheaper
Barclays Africa’s Stephen v Coller explains the decision to bring Singularity University to Johannesburg – briefly relocating Silicon Valley thinking to SA.
Sceptical? Consider how an Exponential Organisation like Uber is crunching taxis; how Airbnb is killing hotels; Google and Facebook are dominating media.
Alec Hogg speaks to Peter Diamandis executive chairman and co-founder at Singularity Univeristy and Barclays Africa’s head of innovation Eugene Booysen on the role of innovation and how it is shaping business