BioInspired! So What? Now What!

2012/07/11 the link to the conference no longer exists and has been replaced by the PDF summarizing Chris Allen's session

"Innovation is crucial to building sustainable business success. But in our fast-changing world, innovation alone won't get the job done—it must be integrated into strategy and core business. This is what companies need to do to inspire and mobilize customers, employees, business partners, and other collaborators.

Making this happen depends on gathering insights and ideas from a more diverse range of sources than ever before. Companies that understand our globalized, integrated, collaborative world will be best positioned to succeed. They will be the ones that capture increased market share and access to new markets through new products and services that deliver sustainable value. They will create new business models that take advantage of the collaborative spirit of our times—and they will be more likely to meet the needs of vast new markets in rising economies. The result? More prosperous companies and a more sustainably prosperous world."

Chris Allen will be presenting:

Biomimicry: Nature's Solutions to Human Problems

Thursday, November 4, 2010 | 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

This one-hour conversation will explore how organizations are using biomimicry, the emerging discipline aimed at finding design solutions from the genius of the natural world. Through evolutionary processes, the natural world has been innovating for 3.8 billion years, and we are only now discovering..."