INSIGHTS FROM A TOP INNOVATION SPEAKER
WHAT IS INNOVATION?
At its core innovation is the use of creative thinking to develop new solutions, whether those solutions are models, processes, products, or services. Symbolically though innovation represents the embodiment of human adaptability, ingenuity, intelligence, progress, and our aspirations for a better future. It has also, up until now, been seen as an almost uniquely human trait, and it is about to change beyond all recognition.
BORN DIFFERENT
Every innovation is born different and with different impact levels, which is why innovations are commonly split into categories such as disruptive, iterative, and sustaining innovations. However, as our world becomes increasingly connected and as we see the rise of increasingly powerful and capable exponential technologies disruption – the frenemy of CEO’s and senior leadership teams worldwide – is becoming more frequent and viral as the rate of global and industrial disruption continues to accelerate to almost unimaginable speeds.
DISRUPTION IN A DAY
When we look across the timeline of human history it’s fair to say that human-led innovation had a slow start.
One of the earliest human inventions was the development of stone tools 2.6 Million years ago, followed by the mastery of fire in 1.5 Million BCE which, even though many people might not give this moment much thought, was arguably one of the most pivotal moments in human history as it encouraged early humans to gather around warm camp fires to share food and exchange stories using another great human invention – the first proto-languages. Clothing followed in 100,000 BCE, cave art and, ironically, shoes followed in 40,000 BCE, agriculture in 10,000 BCE, the wheel in 3,500 BCE, and writing in 3,200 BCE. And, once the foundations of human society as we think of it today had been laid everything accelerated from there, and today disruptions that would have previously taken eons to transform the world can transform it in just hours and days.
We’ve come a long way, and we still have a long, amazing, and prosperous adventure ahead of us, and who knows what the future will bring.
HOW INNOVATION IS CHANGING
With global R&D spending and new patent applications soaring to record highs it’s fair to say that the global rate of innovation has never looked this promising with the vast majority of new developments being concentrated in the biotech, digital technologies, communications, energy, and robotics sectors. While this increase in activity is welcome though much of it is attributable to the new innovation”Cold War” that’s taking place between China and the US, with Europe and India ostensibly watching from the sidelines, as the world transitions from the century old US hegemony to a new Bi-Polar and Multi-Polar world order and as both countries vie with one another for control of the global economic, political, and technological landscape.
With so much to play for, and with so much at stake, it’s therefore no surprise that innovation is headline news, and with China running away with the crown, and with so much political upheaval, we have never seen a time where a company’s or country’s ability and capacity to innovate has been so urgent. It’s justified, therefore, to say that from an innovation perspective we live in the most interesting time in history.
THE RISE OF CREATIVE AI
Creativity and innovation has always been considered as a distinctly human skill with many experts boldly stating, in no uncertain terms, that Artificial Intelligence (AI) or the other technologies we develop will never be able to replicate it or exceed us. To their folly though, and ironically, they failed to realise the true genius of human ingenuity and the fact that at it’s heart, and as any book on innovation will tell you, innovation is a process. Sometimes chaotic and messy, yes, but a process nevertheless and once we understand the process of how to create something we can turn that into an algorithmic model, and that’s what’s been happening over the past few years – we have, quite literally started automating the process of innovation to the point where AI, which is the first self-developing technology, is out innovating humans to invent revolutionary new computer chips, drugs, EV batteries, proteins, rocket engines, and and even new AI’s and societies.
However, as AI increasingly takes the lead in innovation a new problem is emerging – in many cases we just don’t understand how it achieved its breakthroughs, and that leads us into a whole new minefield that few know how to address. Therefore, from this point forwards it seems safe to say that humans will increasingly loose our grip on the title of the known universes greatest innovators – the implications of which, for society and human progress, will be monumental.
22 MAJOR SOCIETAL INFLECTION POINTS
TATA GROUP: THE FUTURE OF DISRUPTION
RE: THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP
PWC: HOW TO MAKE SMARTER DECISIONS
ARE ALL INNOVATION SPEAKERS THE SAME?
Just as every innovation and every patent is unique so too are innovation speakers who are all the sum of their experiences and relationships. Some specialise in business model and disruptive innovation, others focus on process, product, and service innovation, open innovation and innovation leadership, IP protection and law, and so much more. However, despite this variety though none of them can combine all of these unique domains to give audiences the whole picture, new perspectives, and the tools and mindsets they need to re-imagine their organisations, their place in the world, and disrupt the status quo.
And that’s what Matthew Griffin, one of the world’s most in demand Disruption, Innovation, and Technology speakers does daily.
MATTHEW GRIFFIN INNOVATION SPEAKER
INNOVATION ADVISOR . AUTHOR . DISRUPTOR . LECTURER .
Matthew’s first hand experience and expertise in helping organisations predict change and develop world class innovation R&D centers is unmatched and his clients include many of the world’s most renowned innovation giants. Companies like Dow, Huawei, Microsoft, and Samsung where he works with the global leadership teams to help them develop and launch world class products into the market, as well as companies like Nokia who have experienced the devastating consequences of disruption first hand and who now rely on Matthew to help them re-invigorate and re-invent the company.
With a thirty year track record in helping companies activate creative destruction, as appropriate, and catalyze new business growth there are few people in the world with Matthew’s track record of helping organisations establish and retain market leading dominance, create new value, and stay at the forefront of innovation.
INTRODUCING MATTHEW GRIFFIN
THE BEST INNOVATION SPEAKER FOR CORPORATE EVENTS AND CONFERENCES
“A WALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE FUTURE!”
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Matthew Griffin, is a multi-award winning geopolitical advisor, leadership coach, and Futurist who NASA have described as a “Walking encyclopaedia of the future” and a “Futurist polymath.” One of the world’s most renowned Futurists and strategic foresight experts Matthew is the 15 times author of the best selling “Codex of the Future” series, and is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years whose mission it is to democratise access to the future for everyone, irrespective of their abilities or background. An in demand international keynote speaker, university lecturer, and mentor he is also the only Futurist to have been invited to speak alongside world leaders at both the UN COP and WEF Davos, and his two multi-award winning YouTube channels put him in the top 0.1% of YouTubers worldwide.
A rare talent in his past Matthew helped build and lead several multi-billion dollar business units for Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, and his ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a roster of clients that include royal households, world leaders, G7, G20, and G77+ governments, and many of the world’s most respected brands including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Dentons, Deloitte, Disney, Dow, EY, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, and many others.
Regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Khaleej Times, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, WIRED, and the WSJ, Matthews mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.
MATTHEW’S KEYNOTE REEL
AKL: THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY
FORTINET: THE FUTURE OF CYBER
VODAFONE: TECHNOLOGY DISRUPTION AND OPPORTUNITY
MATTHEW’S DAILY WORK
In the most simplistic of terms our present day happens when different events converge – whatever those events are.
Some of these events are the result of things that were set in motion many years, decades, or even Millenia ago, such as the development of intrinsic human behaviours, others happen spontaneously, and the remainder fall somewhere in between. Unsurprisingly, the theory goes that the more of these events, or Signals, that we can catch early, the better able we are to model the impacts when they converge, then the better we should be able to forecast the Preferred, Plausible, Probable, and Preposterous futures. And this has been my personal mission for the past two decades, at Dell-EMC, IBM, and now at the 311 Institute – to identify as many Signals as possible, intensively research them all, including their behaviours and the forces driving them, and then work to develop the most accurate version of the future that we can.
One of the oddest comments I hear from Futurists, even some of the most renown, is that it’s impossible to predict the future, and that we aren’t here to predict anyway. But, I dismiss that point of view, because even with limited data we can predict things such as the continuance of Electric Vehicles, the continuous development of AI, and so forth. I also believe that the more Signals we can see, and the better able we are to understand their behaviours and impact, that the breadth of futures that we can predict can be increased. And, for those occasions when we don’t have data and or are working with imperfect data I developed the Anchoring Constants Foresight Model which so far has played a pivotal role of keeping my own predictions on track. Predictions, as you can see below, such as the emergence of Generative AI and autonomous AI companies, the democratisation of skills, and many others.
However, while envisioning the near and even medium term future is difficult, the further out we go the fuzzier the future gets.
WE ARE THE FUTURE
SEE EVERYTHING AND SUCEED
MENTORING THE NEXT GENERATION
RAISING EVERYONE UP
REASONS TO BOOK MATTHEW
SEE EVERYTHING . EXPLORE EVERYTHING . SUCCEED .
The reason to book me as your next keynote speaker is simple: I can help you see EVERY FUTURE and SUCCEED.
Unlike other speakers I can show you the whole future, not just the 30% of it that others will show you. And then I can share the tools and thinking you and your audiences need to explore it, understand it, and lead it. I understand though that you may think of this as so much marketing hype, so to prove that it isn’t I encourage you to test me, and if you can find a topic that I can’t discuss at an expert level, and in greater depth than others, then I’ll DONATE $10,000 TO CHARITY.
Are you ready to take the challenge!?
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