Almost two weeks ago (already!), we held a lively and fruitful DTS in Toronto, just before the start of the first North American BILT conference. Reflecting the broader mission of BILT, this year our 40+ participants hailed from a wide variety of backgrounds – Architecture, Engineering, Design/ Build, Subcontracting, Software, Product Manufacturing, and Consulting. Some were locally based, and many came from far away. And thanks to a south-facing sloped glazed wall, the conversation wasn’t the only thing heating up the room.
Some highlights of our conversation included:
* Innovation/ Invention relationship
* How we might find opportunities in cloud by revisiting mainframe computing
* Current portability and ubiquity of computing
* Evolutionary vs revolutionary disruption
* Fast-change and slow-change organizations
* Opportunity to Commodity
* Where should we look besides technology to spur innovation?
* How to keep the brightest minds thinking about pushing forward?
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