Episode #42: Joachim De Vos (Living Tomorrow)
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In this episode, we speak to Joachim De Vos, co-chair and managing partner of Living Tomorrow, founder of TomorrowLab, and professor of scenario planning at Ghent University.
Since the early nineties, when the first House of the Future opened its doors, Joachim has been helping organizations and policy makers prepare for what's to come, through future exploration, scenario planning and innovation strategy.
He is also the author of Why Innovation Fails, in which he explores the pitfalls of innovation and explains how companies can become “future fit”. The book includes an in-depth analysis of the Kodak case developed with Steven Sasson, the inventor of the digital camera.
We'll talk about the lessons of successful and failed innovations, how to keep a strong vision alive within complex organizations, and about the future shifts that Joachim believes will change the way we live and work.
Thinking about the future is an art, it's not something you do on a free afternoon. More than 86% of the reasons why companies fail are due to a lack of strategy and long-term thinking.