![]() ![]() Twenty years earlier, the Japanese group had earned extraordinary success by launching the popular Sony Walkman. The audience was eager to hear how Sony would respond to this upheaval. Now Idei was due to make the second big keynote. ![]() Just the day before, on November 13, 1999, Bill Gates, the legendary founder of Microsoft, had declared in a speech that the world was on the verge of an Innovation Revolution 3. Once a year in November, the titans of the computing and electronic world gathered in Las Vegas for the Comdex trade fair for the computing industry. Why are we captured by silo thinking? Journalist and author Gillian Tett gives the answer in a provocative new book in which she argues that silos are what get in the way of innovation and thinking that produces solutions.Ī tall, solemn, distinguished Japanese man stood up. "But you don't just want to hear from me! Oh no! I gotta get out of the way for Nobuyuki Idei-Ideeeeiiiiii," the mouse squeaked, as he leapt around a cartoon kitchen. With a squeaky voice, the mouse announced some of the recent creative triumphs of Sony, the Japanese electronics and media group. ![]() The lights went down and a giant animated mouse appeared on the screen, whiskers twitching it was a character from Stuart Little, a hit children's film of 1999. Hundreds of technology journalists and electronics experts sat before a huge video screen, suspended on a stage between ornate pillars and red velvet curtains. The mood in the vast, majestic Venetian ballroom in the Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Las Vegas was hushed and excited. ![]()
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