Cambridge Technology Partners Inc.'s Thornton May, corporate futurist and vice president of research and education at the Cambridge, Mass.-based company, delivered an animated and irreverent talk last week on innovation and change to an audience of 400 information technology leaders here at Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference. Afterward, he elaborated on some of his themes.
Lets talk some more about innovation and change.
What's really nice about this new economy is that we're actually changing as a species. We used to be more deterministic. We'd say, 'I can only do what Ford Motor Co. does. But right now, the true organizational entity is the human being, the human soul, the human intellect. Hot skills are changing so fast.