"La Salle Matrix Thinking"™ - La Salle Innovation is now in India and Europe as the network grows!

A Matrix Thinking update.

Stop Press:    David Kochie's Business Builders on line web site now include significant "La Salle Mairx Thinking" material and video content.

1. Roger's latest book on innovating Service enterprises is now in the final stages of editing and will be available before Christmas. Already orders have been received despite no title or ISBN number yet being allocated. This book breaks new ground and introduces the concept of "Inovation Trajectory". This is a quite amazing new way to look at your business and the furture.

2. In August this year Roger gave a two hour lecture at Sydney Unversity to some 150 students of MBA and Entrepuenership studies. The outcome in follow up from studebts has been quite  remartkable.

3. Again this year Roger was a judge of the EDN Innovation Awards. The presentation dinner will be in Sydney in September.

4. Commencing in September 2009, Roger will be teaching Matrix Thinking to two separate MBA student streams at the Indira private University in Mumbai.  

5. An agent for Europe has now been appointed and big things are happenning, despite the global financial turmoil.

6. In February Roger was again working in Malaysia delivering an exclusive in-house session with a group of companies in the chemicals business.

7. After many requestes to document in detail the Service Innovation matrices, Roger is now well advance on this, his fourth book, yet to be titled. It is expected to be relesed in the middle of the year.

8. In May Roger will be working with SIM in Singapore in a new business catagory called, "Business Building".

9. In Mumbai in January 2009 Roger was the first of the speakers for the two day conference. His talk really set the scene for what was to follow. Many iniatives are now being followed up in Mumbai including the integration of Matrix Thinking into yet another univertisy MBA and Engineering course.

10. The EFQM Conference in Paris late last year drew some 600 delegates from all over Eurpoe and was a great success. The next EFQM conference, 2009, is planned to be held in Ireland.

11. The Malaysian VISTAGE CEO SUMMIT in September 2008 drew some 340 CEO delegates where Roger presented for two and a half hours as the keynote speaker. Following the event the workshops for both November and December were sold out.

The event even made Malaysian television: See the link via http://www.nama.com.my/wmv/20080909_T60_BTV-0430PM_3.WMV

11. "Think Again", Roger's new book on process innovation is now available and many orders have been received. Don't be deceived and assume that process innovation simply applies just to manufacturing processes; indeed just driving to work is a process. Interestingly this is covered in the book in some small way, so too the issue of ever increasing budgetary requirements, even for stagnant organisations - why is this so - and what is the answer?

12. Roger has increased his travels even more of late with overseas engagements virtually every month. Late last year it was Europe, including one of the major banks of Turkey where some 40 Matrix Thinking trainers were upskilled for delivering matrix thinking right across the bank.

13. In February and March 2008 it was Singapore and Malaysia, twice. In April it's the USA, (Chicago) then South America for two conferences and workshop events then back to Puerto Rico where an official launch of "Think Again" will take place.

14. In May it's Bali, Queensland, NSW then Victoria, and back to the USA in June. This is exciting for the growth of Matrix Thinking as its strength builds increasingly more and more both at home and internationally.

15. In Singapore and Malaysia a major company has trained some 300 people in Matrix Thinkng and some real 'breakthrough' products have been created. Obviously confidentiality prevents their discoloure, but the work was all in the services sect or. Who was it that said that innovation of service companies is difficult - not so, we have living proof.

16. The "La Salle Matrix Thinking Course Notes and Workshop Session Manual" has now been revised, refined and updated yet again. The new edition includes further information on KPI's, Management Reporting, Value Chain players, Embedding Innovation and Innovation Circles. The manual now also has extensive content on innovating service industries, a must for most western ecomomies that are now heavily service based.

In addition an Innovation capability survey is part and parcel of this manual which now runs to over 133 pages.

17. Some Matrix Thinking products are now available on Amazon where regular orders are received from all over the world.

STOP PRESS:

Australian Marketing Institute book review on "Think New" Roger's book on product innovation:

"In the right hand, this book could have life-changing effects"

Terry Hurlock - Pincipal of Terry Hurlock and Associates, marketing consultants - Brisbane

- An new endorsement received from a recent Gold Coast conference:

"Your keynote presentation “Innovation – The Essence of Business Success” rated as the conference highlight on the conference survey completed by delegates”

Kim Hackwood
General Manager AALARA
(Australian Amusement, Leisure and Recreation Association
Gold Coast Conference 2008)

- A second endorsement:

"We found the system an excellent approach to developing innovative ideas from customers, service agents, engineers and sales staff. The normal brainstorming method is only a distant second in comparison to his innovation process.

Paul Mracek
Managing Director (retired) Fasco Asia Pacific
(A Division of General Electric USA and Regal-Beloit Int'l)