Corporate Thought

The dinner occurred at Virginia Beach Recording Arts which was formerly Thomas Crown Studios owned by Timbaland  It was part of the Corporate Thought A-HA! Dinner Series. The evening was generally about disruptive innovation, the term coined by Clayton Christensen and was attended by 8 thought leaders.    Collin spoke of mobile clean room labs or production facilities able to bring the facility to the product rather than the product to the facility.  John spoke of his people as being on the front line and expecting much of them in a service based business but rewarding them as well.  This led to a mention of Jesse Cole and the story of the Savannah Bananas. Harsh was “paralyzed” without his cellphone.  One of the features of the A-HA! Dinners is that cellphones are banned and we confiscate them during the event.  I found this article about cellphones at restaurants. Harsh mentioned Alvin Toffler books.  I admit I knew nothing about Alvin Toffler except his name referenced in the song Levon by Elton John. Now