Sunday, 8 May 2016

Trending Topic from the WebSummit: Saints and Sinners?

#Trending:  Saints and Sinners?
We seem to be evolving the conversation beyond our love of the underdog story - that much rehashed tale about the saintly and virtuous 'little home startup that's shaking up an industry'. Now the conversation seems to be turning to one of frustration at the tech 'sinners'. Whether it was discussing the backwards approach of the RDS to the wifi challenges, the slowness of some bigger businesses and organisations to effectively innovate, the gap between the technology we have available and the rubbish  products ill-informed key decision makers buy (*cough - Irish Water)... the story of the tech world seems to be dividing into a story of saints and sinners. The story of the innovating idealists that push for change to create a better world and truly useful things... and 'the lethargic big businesses' that occasionally toys with innovation thanks to a singular blind objective of revenue.
The key learning we'll be taking is that in order for us to not only thrive, but survive, we all need to become the innovative idealists for our businesses, brands, industries and communities. 
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