“Mobile devices will be with us anytime anywhere for everything.”

Accells

• Accells technology will allow cellular user to be automatically identified by presenting any standard mobile handset in any application, with no need for mobile handset upgrades.
• Application: Access control, ticketing, money transfer, transportation, point of sales, etc.
• Mobile commerce market is a huge market. The market for our product is percieved to be $2,5 billion.
• We are bringing a new paradigm in conctacless technology.
• Works with every existing phone as is.
• You put the phone close to the device and it is instantly identified. Then the customer recieves an sms to confirm.
• We are the first afforadble  solution on contactless technology for all mobile phones.

Novarra

• It enables mobile phones without wap browser, html browser, widset widgets to use them.
• Vision widgets. 1/10th the footprint and resource requirements of typical WRT.
• Integrated HTML browser for perfomance and richness.
• Supports widest range of handsets for mass users.
• “Write Once, Run many ” Widgets.
• The deveoloper creates a widget, submits it to the Novarra vision server and it packages the software for every specific mobile phone.
• It features sms, mms, social networks, email..
• Can moneitze it with ads.

Extract by Josep Oriol Ayats

“The companies that will win in the future will be the ones that are really focused on human beings”

Highlights

• Management is one of most important technologies human has invented, and we need to reinvent that technology.Management was really invented to solve the problem on how to turn human beings to robots.Somehow we are satisfied with the same management system of middle 1900.

Gary Hamel’s interview from Hit Barcelona on Vimeo.

Why has management evolution stopped?

• Maybe we have solved all the possible problems or maybe we have simply been caught in a paradigm trap, which i think is the correct answer.

The 3 new challenges that face organitzations today are:

First challenge: Change

• Are companies changing as fast as the world is?
• A lot of companies have been left behind on the change curve.
• Product advantages don’t last as long as they used to.
• The dividing line between a leader and a competitor is usually months only.
• Change only happens in crisis.
• Today the challenge is building an evolutionary advantage over time.

Second challenge: Protection barriers

• The protection barriers companies used to have are falling.
• We have to be adaptable in a new environment.
• Innovation is the only protective barrier. There are ways to determine innovation is not a key point in a company.

Third challenge:  Knowledge is becoming a commodity

• We need to integrate knowledge in a creative way.
• We need a completely different way of thinking about our people.

Other highlights

• Worker values pyramid: Obedience, diligence, expertise, initiative, creativity, passion.
• The job of managers is not to get employees to serve the organization, but to build the environment to encourage people to collaborate and contribute.
• “All commitment is voluntary”.
• “If you never tell a colleague what to do it will never work with you again”.
• We have to destroy the notion of the CEO.
• How do you became a management innovator? You have to be willing to challenge conventional thinking.
• You have to go to the social revolution on the web to see the future of management.
• The assumption is that when you get people more freedom they get less disciplined.
• Involvement drives commitment.
• The single reason companies get into trouble is when they concentrate responsibility in few people so the organization depends on personal characteristics of that people.

If you had grown up in the internet world:

• Every idea should compete in equal condition.
• What matters is your contribution not your credentials.

Management is only on doing to simple things

• Amplifying human capabilities (the internet has done it)
• Aggregate those capabilities (we see that through open source)

The irony is we as individual are already adaptable, innovative and interested but our organizations are not as much.

“Inspirational leadership makes innovation work”

Highlights

• Innovation travels from one place to another.
• The spirit is to create something that will endure.
• Innovation is a hot topic today.
• Innovation is the only way we are going out of recession.
• If you want new ideas you have to be open to all kind of ideas.

Imágenes exteriores generales y sesión de networking con emprendedores e inversores from Hit Barcelona on Vimeo.

There are 5 lessons essential to innovation, called “The 5 Fs”

1st: Focus

• They should be highly focused, but not focused on their business portfolio.
• They should be focused in a mission that unites the entire company for innovation.

2nd: Flexible

• Flexibility means to be flexible with respect to rules and processes. Every company needs to have the flexibility to take their own course separate from the rules that had been established.
• The lack of flexibility kills innovation more than anything else.
• Without flexlibility there is no innovation.
• Before becoming the right idea is someone’s crazy idea competing.
• If an idea looks really good means that we understand it, which in turn means it’s not so innovative.

3rd: Fast

• Companies should not bound to large hierarchys.
• “We don’t want boureaucracy anymore”.
• Companies should be more organized around projects than around bosses.
• You have to move fast because of the flexibility. Any team has a focus, every team that is flexible can move quickly, then they start to operate like companies, without burocracy.
• Everyone can and should self-organize.
• If you want to move fast you want everyone on your company to volunteer.

4th: Friendly

• It stands for collaboration.
• In order to success people have to enlight partnerships, internal and external.
• CEOs have to suspend their egos.
• Any company willing to learn from its parters is gonna get the best.

5th: Fun

• If it’s not fun to go through demands of innovation, nobody’s gonna do it.
• If the organizational culture doesn’t make it fun, it won’t succeed. It’s motivation that makes work fun.

Other highlights:

• Kanter’s Law: any project can look like a failiure in the middle. Specially when the ideas are very new. Persisting and persevering is the only way to get through it.
• One of the secrets of innovation is innovators have more success but also more failure, and that is just because they tried more.
• Every innovation often requires secondary innovations to get the primary innovation off the ground: innovation is also important in the processes and not just in the product.
• Innovation never drops itself in.
• People won’t let business stay without values.
• The thinking should be “I have two jobs: one at .. and the other to save the world”.
• ”Be the change that you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi.

Extract by Josep Oriol Ayats and Guillem Mateos.