Images of COFES 2008
Here, in no particular order, telling no particular story, are some photos from COFES 2008, which took place last week in Scottsdale, Arizona.
If COFES keynote speaker Karl Ulrich had pulled peanuts out of his pocket, most of the 300 in attendance would have gladly eaten from his hands. The summary of the chart on display is "don't spend so much time debating the merits of marginal and/or stupid projects" except that Ulrich said it like somebody who has a book on the subject coming out from Harvard Business School Press in 2009. That the need exists to say this in a power point and a book explains why innovation is a chimera in many manufacturing firms.
COFES co-founder and chief ramrod Brad Holtz swears on his grandmother's grave that the selection of green as the shirt color for COFES staff was totally unconnected to the selection of this year's conference theme of sustainability.
Bill Carrelli of Siemens PLM Software had a full house in the tech suite, but still wouldn't divulge what the big announcement coming April 22 is all about.
Most sports fans have heard of the San Diego Chicken. This is the San Diego Grouse, technical name Steveious Wolfeious.
Anton van den Hengel flew from Australia (where he is director of the Australian Center for Visual Technologies) to speak to COFES for five minutes during the Maieutic Parataxis session. Afterwards COFES attendees mobbed him like groupies at a rock concert.
More to come.
If COFES keynote speaker Karl Ulrich had pulled peanuts out of his pocket, most of the 300 in attendance would have gladly eaten from his hands. The summary of the chart on display is "don't spend so much time debating the merits of marginal and/or stupid projects" except that Ulrich said it like somebody who has a book on the subject coming out from Harvard Business School Press in 2009. That the need exists to say this in a power point and a book explains why innovation is a chimera in many manufacturing firms.
COFES co-founder and chief ramrod Brad Holtz swears on his grandmother's grave that the selection of green as the shirt color for COFES staff was totally unconnected to the selection of this year's conference theme of sustainability.
Bill Carrelli of Siemens PLM Software had a full house in the tech suite, but still wouldn't divulge what the big announcement coming April 22 is all about.
Most sports fans have heard of the San Diego Chicken. This is the San Diego Grouse, technical name Steveious Wolfeious.
Anton van den Hengel flew from Australia (where he is director of the Australian Center for Visual Technologies) to speak to COFES for five minutes during the Maieutic Parataxis session. Afterwards COFES attendees mobbed him like groupies at a rock concert.
More to come.
