innovation

18 Nov 09 | The subject of corporate innovation from BNET ~ TheFazz

one of the projects i am working on is putting together a framework for corporate innovation.

one thing's for sure, this is no easy thing. but unfortunately - or fortunately - it is something of a must do. we as a nation are at a crossroad, and inflection point.

for the past several years, we prided ourselves as being a solid destination for foreign investment in manufacturing. our low cost structure, good infrastructure and investment friendly government policies helped to drive economic growth 1.0.

14 Nov 09 | Beyond Budgeting as a model for greater empowerment and innovation ~ TheFazz

i would like to share with you my personal journey of the beginnings of the transforming an organisation from a traditional top-down command & control hierarchy based organisation into a desired empowered organisation where employees at the lowest team levels are empowered to serve the customers better, create more value and drive better organisational performance.

i am working with a large local organisation with a long history.

14 Nov 09 | Helping Malaysia attract and retain the best brains and innovators ~ TheFazz

source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/14/nation/20091114115...

in the article titled "PM: We'll make Malaysia a better place" published in The Star on 14 November 2009, the Malaysian Prime Minister talks about the need to make Malaysia more attractive to the best brains in order to drive the transformation into a knowledge society. He goes on to talk about creating opportunities for not only Malaysians abroad, but also foreigners too.

29 Sep 09 | Malaysia still behind in scientific innovation, says PM ~ TheFazz

Source article at Malaysian Insider.

“We need more scientists and researchers. We need more innovators. We need pioneers in science and technology.

“At the moment, we have only achieved 18 RSEs per 10,000 workforce. Clearly this is far from satisfactory and something must be done to improve the situation,” he said.

The nation needs to move ahead in areas of research, creativity and innovation (RCI). But achieving this is not something that can happen overnight. RCI needs a lot of patience, willingness to try new methods / things, acceptance of failures, freedom to think and a society that is awashed with these mindsets.

Sadly, Malaysia today has none of these mindsets.

16 Sep 09 | BERNAMA - Malaysia Needs To Nurture High Quality Leaders, Says Najib ~ TheFazz

source site - BERNAMA - Malaysia Needs To Nurture High Quality Leaders, Says Najib

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 15 (Bernama) -- Malaysia must develop a proper system so that it can produce high quality leaders and bring the nation to greater heights, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

He said leaders are not only from heritage but can also be nurtured.

"We are basically at a crossroad from transforming ourselves into matured economy, high percentage of services and moving forward we want to again transform the country as a knowledge-based, innovative economy."

Yet another call for the development / nurturing of private and public sector leaders to support the new economic model.